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i just had double jaw surgery 5 weeks ago that's why my face looks weird!
anyway besides that, all i've been doing this summer is freaking out about dead sailors PLEASE WATCH THE TERROR SEASON 1 IT'S ON HULU !!!
this song was equally inspired by the show and william battersby's amazing biography of james fitzjames BTW.
lyrics:
catching fever in the marshland
walking a thousand miles and more
i was going to be a great man
i thought i knew what i was fighting for
skylarking in the gunroom
and climbing up those foreign walls
pretending i was someone
getting pierced with a musket ball
and all these stories that i tell
i’d trade for you to know me now
can i live without vanity
i’d like for you to show me how
dressing up like a princess
i wanted everyone to know my name
but when i tried to bring that joy here
it all went up in flames
there was something worth exploring
but i can’t remember where and why
there’s only you and me now
here under an endless sky
and all these stories that i tell
i’d trade for you to know me now
can I live without vanity
i’d like for you to show me how
i’ve never been free
cause all that I’ve done, I’ve done to be seen
all these heroics and quotes
to end up as only a name on a note
have i made a mistake
living a life that was really a fake
here we are at the end
i don’t have a reason to keep pretending
and all these stories that i tell
i’d trade for you to know me now
can i live without vanity
i’d like for you to show me how
don’t you see how much it’d mean
if you’d just reach out and touch
can we be friends, can we be brothers
i’d like that very much