your baggage + mitski songs
i bet on losing dogs: self sabotage
brand new city: skin crawling regret
strawberry blond: unrequited love
carry me out: wanting for freedom
i will: “inability to care for or love yourself”
class of 2013: “mommy issues”/fear of failure/”lack of parental approval”
best american girl: “a senseless, ridiculous, incurable need to be wanted by white men”
pearl diver: “knowing you gave up something really good for something that seemed better, but ultimately made it worse for you, and that regret” / unquenchable need to know, a never-ending existential crisis
townie: “a sort of restlessness mixed with impulsiveness, sick of a life in stagnation, wanting to just let go and live life fast and dangerous at any expense; just to feel something, just to feel alive at all…but knowing u probably won’t. rebellion from authority/yourself.”
square: need to make yourself feel real, to find a shape to mold yourself after / “unsteadiness and new knowledge. learning from mistakes”
francis forever: “self identity and the fear of being misunderstood/not having someone who actually Knows you and going through life Unseen” / “codependency, missing someone”
my body’s made of crushed little stars: “all us who are trying to prove theyre worth something but also are 100% to fucking LOSE IT at any time. bonus points for religious guilt (kill me in Jerusalem)” / “having big ambitions and dreams but being weighed down by the stuff you have to do to survive, shed rather die than not have the ambitious life she wants to have”
last words of a shooting star: “feeling fleeting, unnoticed, hopelessly trapped in a life of loneliness, depression and unreachable goals, being passively suicidal”
nobody: “being lonely and touch starved because as early as middle or high school you were designated as not date material, possibly the ugly friend, and thus having no idea how to present yourself for romantic endeavors + only knowing about intimacy through books or movies but craving it So Much into adulthood”
first love/late spring: “fear of vulnerability liquid smooth: fear of aging/becoming weak and unloveable”
fireworks: “numbness kind of depression”
dan the dancer/shame/once more to see you: “hiding somethin big abt yourself from the world”
old friend/two slow dancers/i want you: “unresolved feelings for a person from your past”
a pearl: “holding on 2 trauma and tocixity, seeing it as a part of your identity”
crack baby: “tryin 2 fill a void with addictions”
🌙🌾🌿💕(post inspired by @explosionshark )
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