Wow, Lee - this one feels like a portrait of the defense mechanism of always seeing rejection. It’s a way to try to avoid pain, but it means living in that painful place whenever someone gets too close. The way you use the punching and kicking makes me imagine the singer was physically abused as a kid, though maybe just in the used to be more socially acceptable corporal punishment kinds of ways. It’s like this wounded heart just keeps wounding itself.

Right in the feels. This gives me Jason Molina vibes, seriously.

When your vocals get intense, I can hear a touch of the room you're in, and that really works with the guitar and subject matter somehow. Like it grounds it to a time and place. Your vocal has such feeling in it. I wish I couldn't relate. But I can.

Thanks for posting something so vulnerable and true. That takes guts.

I love this -- it feels raw and visceral and emotionally real. So many great popular songs are intense, sometimes violent. J. Cash: "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die". But in amateur song forums, writers often feel like they have to preface or apologize for darker material. I'm so glad I got to hear this. It inspires me to be brave and take chances. Thank you for writing and posting.

Thank you for sharing this, I appreciate the courage it takes! "Lord knows youve got to save yourself" hits so hard. Its hard when you're both drowning and it seems the only way out is to let the other person shove you under the water. Sharing a breath, being willing to die rather than to be without them, you capture such huge feelings so well. There's a Florence Welch lyric that goes "I love you so much I'm gonna let you kill me" that's stuck with me forever, and this song fits right into that playlist. Thank you again for keeping this up, its a really beautiful song and so well performed. Sending love to you!