And Make Sure They're Shining On You

Book Blanket Project: Dewey

Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest civilizing mission.

"Every record represents something different. Tortured Poets album is like this purge of just like, everything, everything bad that I felt for two years. It was a really rough time in my life, so the songs reflect that. ['cause I sound like I'm gonna die]. Feeling like I'm not a person, I'm just like this big conglomerate that no one sees as a real human being, and like, especially not men that I date. And in the whole process just being like, 'Nothing, nothing works. Nothing's, there is no one for me in the world."