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from Sometimes You Have to Leave by Ridgeview

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Just say the word, and I’ll make myself anything. If this feeling is fleeting, there is no sense in being afraid. An escapist at best, always looking for the next way to leave. Though there’s no joy here at all, we compete. There is no poetry in grieving. There is nothing beautiful in loss. Can we explain the hopeless way we keep retreating to the same place? Our need to belong. Another misguided attempt at connection. A regular reminder to embrace the imperfections I’ve grown to learn to let go. But there’s another side about which we don’t speak. There are pieces of ourselves that we are terrified that anyone might see. Details that would lead us to believe that we are not quite always the people we expect ourselves to be. She says, “I think it’s funny the things we choose to share with anybody.” The people we declare we are. It feels like we’re barely ourselves.

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from Sometimes You Have to Leave, released November 14, 2020

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