Failed Man (Emily Ayden Cover)

from Crazy Crying Trans Grrl by Izzy and the Chimera

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The first time someone called me 'queer'
I didn't know what it meant
and so I looked it up in the dictionary
and I took it as a compliment, whoa-oh
I took it as a compliment

it said 'strange, odd or unusual'
and I thought to myself,
why would anyone ever wanna be
wanna be anything else? whoa-oh
wanna be anything else?

whoa-oh-oh

the first time I put on a dress
I should've known my life would be a mess
cuz I looked in the mirror and hated what I saw
just a little less, whoa-oh just a little bit less

Baby I was just fourteen I wish someone had told me then
I didn't have to feel like a failed man
I didn't have to feel like a failed plan.
Whoa-oh-oh
Whoa-oh

and I'll stop being 'queer' the day
you stop saying it's not OK
for people to act a certain way
because of their anatomy whoa-oh
because of the shape of their bodies

maybe I wouldn't have to feel
maybe I wouldn't have to feel
maybe I wouldn't have to feel like a failed man
wouldn't have to feel like a failed plan
Whoa-oh-oh
Whoa-oh

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from Crazy Crying Trans Grrl, released September 6, 2016

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DIY folk-pop made by a disabled Jewish nonbinary trans girl in Portland, Oregon.

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