#ms swift

💜surreal, i’m damned if i do give a shit what people say 🟣

u: untouched - the veronicas. no lyrics needed, it’s the feeling of screaming the lyrics when you’re just the right level of drunk. iykyk. 

n: new slang by the shins. i’m looking in on the good / i might be doomed to never find

c: come over (again) by crawlers. get her name out of your mouth / you don’t deserve to mourn

o: old lovers in dressing room - keaton henson. did you love me like the way you wrote? 

n: no children - the mountain goats. our friends say it’s darkest before the sun rises / we’re pretty sure they’re all wrong 

t: the deepest sighs, the frankest shadows. but gretta ray’s cover for like a version - god’s gift to mankind. i am grieving the loss of myself with frightening malaise 

a: always gold - radical face. you can blame me when there’s no one left to blame. 

i: invisible - stacey ann. can we just press rewind / go back to a time / when we could say we were alright 

n: northsiders - christian lee hutson. sometimes i imagine us way down the line / getting fat somewhere in the countryside 

e: eulogy for you and me - tanya davis. god this song is such a balm for my anticipatory grief. i wanted to call your bones home but i didn’t get to. 

d: death by a thousand cuts - taylor swift. gave you so much but it wasn’t enough. 

h: hallelujah. the original leonard cohen version. what a genius. how to pick a favourite line? you say i took the name in vain / i don’t even know the name 

y: ya hey - vampire weekend. how fitting ezra koening & leonard cohen sit next to each other. You won’t even say Your name / You say “I am that I am” / but who could every live that way? god i wish i could talk about faith + diaspora the way they do. 

b: brother - matt corby. because as an aussie zillenial what’s a playlist without a song from dance academy? you couldn’t help out your own neighbour / you couldn’t tell it to his face / you were fucked up by the blame 

r: retrograde - maggie rogers. how does maggie make music that is exactly what it feels like to live in this current moment, trying to find joy amongst all the darkness? listening when Stevie says mmm / “come out of the darkness” 

i: i don’t live here anymore - the war on drugs. my memories like waves / is life just dying in slow motion?