Name: crushed material
Duration: P00H03M24S
Description: this song was recorded exclusively on Stevie's bed while Stevie recovered from a broken leg. Nearly all of the instruments on this track (vocals not included) were made with a MIDI keyboard. Originally titled "broken heart broken leg" but that felt too on the nose.

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from str8 from the bedroom by Crush Material

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this song was recorded exclusively on Stevie's bed while Stevie recovered from a broken leg. Nearly all of the instruments on this track (vocals not included) were made with a MIDI keyboard. Originally titled "broken heart broken leg" but that felt too on the nose.

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Here I am on the other side
You’re losing me and I’ve lost my stride
Now I’ve lived long enough to become the adversary in my old songs
Here I am on the other side
You're wanting me, and I wanna die
You want that too but you want me more
but I'm afraid, I can’t be yours

Do you relate to me circa 2019
While you mourn me in 2023
Either way, I promise you’re not missing as much as you think
I love singing these songs but it feels so wrong
Cause I've led you on walks I can’t walk
and the me you longed for was just really not me at all
So sorry you had to fall

Here I am on the other side
So-called adult, so hating life
I used to judge my teachers hard
Now I judge me in each regard
And here we are tangled up inside,
Trying to extricate our lives from an attachment gone so young
I can count on my hands all the times I saw you

This past year I tried to be someone so cool
who you could live vicariously through
tried going out for drinks and dates
But I hate this place!
I woke up angry and fully out of time
cause the world a fraud but like, so am I
lacking all the drive
for any part of being alive
I feel so dead inside

I broke your heart then I broke my leg
such funny timing in the end
I don’t respect what I have said
I can’t stand by, I’ll stay in bed
sorry I fled

Breaking my leg after breaking hearts
Think I deserved to fall apart
And when you see me next you’ll say
I think we could all just use a break
We all will get our break

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from str8 from the bedroom, released September 1, 2023

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