Jay Brannan

The Goddamned record. Some of it is really self-indulgent, but when it's good, it's really good. The realization that some experiences aren't necessarily universal, noticing how other writer's songs can seem autobiographical, and also noticing as a songwriter myself how songs I wrote a year ago are now imprinting the stories of other people I know onto themselves. Music is weird.

i don't know where we're going
but i know we've gone too far and
i hope it isn't showing
but i think i love you and
i can't believe you're leaving
when you had me believing
i could feel again
...
i've shown up for you
in ways that boy never would, but
i know you'll go back to him and
maybe you should, but
hope you don't go backwards
cuz i'm going on ahead and
one day you'll wish that you had
stuck with me instead



crazy about each other
we both have fucked up pasts
but when we are together
we have a fucking blast



to the boy who should've loved me
from the boy you could've had
i promise not to send this letter
i wouldn't want you to feel bad
for not opening your heart to me
for your unavailability
i guess you're not required to like me
but did you fake it just to spite me?
...
thanks for leading me on, but this time i'm gonna be strong
although your disinterest kinda came as a surprise cuz
you could the sin and the sadness and taste the gin and the madness
on my lips and in my eyes, well, i can't help that i want to see you again
but it takes two to start a string-along-song and only one to make it end