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good is not a thing you are, it's a thing you do

by NAIF

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you can do anything, and so can i i see each year that has past manifest as a line on your face i see it not as age but character more detail, more colour on the page they never tell you when you’re young an dumb how good getting old can feel they never tell you that time fills your heart and you start to learn how to live happily i know you’re tired I’m exhausted too but look at just how far we have come i wanna grow i wanna overthrow the normal yeah us girls we don’t need to run they never tell you when you’re young an dumb how good getting old can feel they never tell you that time fills your heart and you start to learn how to live happily you can do anything, and so can i you can do anything, and so can i you can do anything, and so can i
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body of water why are art and poison so intrinsically linked? expressing, feeling, showing love shouldn’t make us sick body of water you and i are one in the same it moves, it flows we are the constant change i was raised so very wrong told we didn’t open up unless we were deathly high zero indicators at the top body of water you and i are one in the same it moves, it flows we are the constant change press it down no more tell me your sore heart emotion is no chore the time is now lets leave the dark
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rent and medication we are all laughing i swear its no joke i try my best chew my food still i choke I’ve been hollowed out from violent past relations but theres not much left after rent & medication each time i , hit the ground a new low appears, i wanna walk down the street without fear of being attacked, I’m just learning how to live in this body i wanna go back to school and learn how to help other people but theres not much left after rent & medication each time i , hit the ground a new low appears, i take my pills see my doctors but howdy i live without wanting to die? i don’t do drugs anymore I’m eating ok whats it like not to cry everyday? buy some bread and burn my toast my stomach is empty and I’m lost but theres not much left after rent & medication.
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sort by newness you asked the computer to sort by newness and my heart broke it sighed why do we do this we scroll I lear we gaze we are both speechless is this companionship search for convenience? show your age show me anything i want to believe i do the lines on your face beauty to me oh the sigh of you brings me joy we lay around ignoring the big stuff I’m a lazy hack who is always rushed maybe we should study the parts but consider the whole? maybe we scream n share the things that we don’t wanna show? show your age show me anything i want to believe i do the lines on your face beauty to me oh the sigh of you brings me joy
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fluid in my lungs and my heart I’ve got fluid in my lungs and my heart although it hurts to talk i can’t take it anymore i know i can’t complain cuz its a result of my broken brain I’ve got fluid in my lungs in my heart I’ve got fluid in my lungs and my heart although it hurts to talk i can’t take it anymore i wanna beg for help but did this to myself I’ve got fluid in my lungs in my heart is this the pain that we deserve its so funny how our bodies work is this my body asking me to stop? have i been denying myself love?
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I’ve always wanted to die I’ve always wanted to die I’ve never really liked being alive its not your decision its entirely mine and I’ve always wanted to die I’ve always wanted to die I’ve mostly been lying about doing fine its not your decision its entirely mine and I’ve always wanted to die

about

this album is a collection of (almost) love and (overtly) hate songs, i wrote them over the summer, their mostly sports bra ideas that got left on the cutting room floor? its inspired by my amazing friends and how when im with them or see them kicking goals in the world it truly gives me the motivation to continue with this life thing.

"good is not a thing you are, it's a thing you do" is a quote from my (fictional) best friend and hero Kamala Khan aka Ms Marvel.

ah but yeah thnx for being alive with me, and yeah everyone should go start bands with all the powerful women, trans and non binary ppl in your lives :):):)

naif jamie
March 2018

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released February 28, 2018

all songs and sounds and words and blips and blops and sings and yelps and strums etc by naif jamie

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NAIF Sydney, Australia

naïf
(nʌɪˈiːf,nɑːˈiːf)

adjective
1.
naive or ingenuous.

a transgender woman, a sad song generator.

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