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Cutting

from Meat Cake by Lusterlit

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Cutting

This is a very simple public service announcement
for not spilling your blood but for keeping every precious ounce in. 
I mean, you’re going to bleed anyway every month.
You’re going to bleed anyway what's the rush.

And you’re not alone
You're not the only rockstar/witch.
You’re not alone
even though today it might feel like it.

Speaking of it, Clara Bow, who grew up with no 
money or parental guidance or anyone to show
her a way out so she had to make her own
escape, and she did into cinema which she helped to shape
by becoming a movie star when she was just a teen
defining fun and glamour for the whole of the roaring 20s.
She had It but It was a lot of pressure for someone so young.
So she turned to pills and coping mechanisms that included domestic violence.
Prescription drugs and domestic violence
Shock therapy and domestic violence.
A lobotomy and domestic violence.
Actually, that was Frances Farmer.

Then Cleopatra, original rock star, she’d go far
in a bed carried around by a dozen hot guys with arms
that could do her bidding because a girl’s got get around,
and some rockstar business is best conducted lying down.

Anthony didn’t mind.  He was man enough to love her getting her way.
Even when she ordered him to go battle but not to bathe.
But she couldn’t wait until he returned so she delivered herself
onto his ship secretly rolled up into a carpet.
And mermaids she commanded into the nets of his men
as a gift for their hard work on the decks.
And when he died, she caught a snake and held it until it to her chest.
Until it bit her that’s one way to deal with the pain I guess.
It’s pretty hardcore but today there are other options…

These days, witches have some other coping mechanisms.
They can exercise to exorcise those inner demons.
Learn to blind some rapists in a self defense class.  
Think of all the security and power you will have.

Or wield an instrument and let music be a vehicle for pain.
It will travel far with so much fuel in the veins
Everything is in your mind anyway.

And you can change your mind into anything you want because you’re magic.
Those people burned at the stake so you could be free.
So go ahead and see what life is like for the living.
Go ahead decide what life is like for the living.

You’re not alone
You're not the only rockstar/witch.
You’re not alone
even though today it might feel like it.

You’re not alone

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from Meat Cake, released September 28, 2018

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Lusterlit Brooklyn, New York

With their songs created for Bushwick Book Club, BBC founder, Susan Hwang and BBC contributor and producer, Charlie Nieland, have joined forces to perform as the new, literature-inspired duo—Lusterlit. Both vocalists and multi-instrumentalists, Charlie and Susan alternate lead vocals and harmonies while supporting each other on guitar, bass, synth, traditional Korean drum and accordion. ... more

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