oh I know
every single way you say you can swallow me whole
but I can’t go
when both my hands are half chewed up and spit back in your bowl

cuz all I wanted to do was touch your skin
but that would mean you’d have to let me in
so while I feel your teeth sink in my flesh
I remember once you said you loved me best

where’s my phone
I see it manifest into a lump inside your throat
and I’ll watch my tone
if you’ll just come and hold me till I’m just your sack of bones 

cuz all I wanted to do was touch your skin
but that would mean you’d have to let me in
so while I feel your teeth sink in my flesh
I remember once you said you loved me best
and I recall the day I took you home
complimented my oven and my stove
you picked me up, said my body’s light as air
I guess it just felt better you were there

love is blind
i tell you i’m a cannibal 
and you say you don’t mind
so take your time
I’ll be waiting on the couch
till you’re ready to dine

cannibal

this is my little silly garageband cover take of bite the hand by boygenius, the best song the supergroup has ever written. :)

bite the hand

badly mixed track i wrote recently

another song about being a simp

puppy dog

i wrote only the melody and guitar for this song, my beautiful friend blaise asked me to take lyrics she wrote for her and her boyfriend's anniversary and write a surprise song for him. i recorded this last year <3 they are so so sweet and I'm so happy they liked it. her lyrics are awesome.

ten times over

pink balloon by samia

i’m such a good girl
i took my medicine
i never reached for you
stayed on my side of the bed 

i stood inside my bathtub
cold water streaming in
to make sure you don’t feel 
my body heat on your skin

been such a good girl
i get to sleep with you
good things will come to those 
who do exactly what you say to do 

do i get my reward?
or is it in the mail?
if i said i felt queasy
id go to good girl jail

oh i will open my mouth 
in the silence of the dark
i will take what i am given
a good girl doesn’t say it’s hard

you’re so smart and strong
how do you hang the moon so high
that it has entered orbit
that moon has good girl vibes 

you’re such a good man
a hell raising feel good time 
drink till you end the party
one before bed glass of wine 

i watch you from my good girl ledge
but you don’t know i’m there
youre crying to a stranger
your good man life’s unfair 

and i will open my mouth
cuz i love the way it tastes
because i love the way i’m yours
i’ll show you good girl grace 

methodical and fearless 
how you hang my moon so high
i am lost inside your orbit
a moon with good girl vibes

i’ll be your good girl tonight

good girl

My body’s been a vessel of sensitivities 
My body holding services and making homes to things
My body’s grown and anger has grown along with her 
Your body’s dropped it’s burdens in the road to make me swerve
And it isn’t surprising
I’m made of all of my friends’
Thoughts and prayers and “you’re not there’s”, and “you’re the reason this could end”
I can be a better person if my person takes the blame
I can be a better friend if you would whip me into shape

My body’s been an offering, my body’s been a cell
Been promised nourishment and served up something more like hell
My body’s been a temple, my body’s been a maze
My body’s sick of holding onto guilt and onto shame


And it isn’t surprising
I’m tired all the time
When I’m the mother to your broken kids as well as mine
I can be a better person, once my insides are washed clean
could have been a better friend, if i avoided what i mean

And my life doesn’t need another villain
Cuz I’ve been pried open by pandora’s children
The lies are white most the time I try to live them
Cuz I’ve denied the fact i haven’t tried to quit em

My body’s been invaded, my body’s been abused
My body’s gathering strength to finally wash away of you

And my life doesn’t need another villain
Cuz I’ve been pried open enough finally to kill it 
The lies been white most the time I look to see it
Cuz I’ve been tried enough to finally try to treat it

body

I swear I felt hope slump out of your room
And I'm halfway convinced that you felt her leave too
And I painted you on my chest
I saw Jackson Pollock instead of a mess and
Leaves change, maybe I should change too
On my way home I stepped on one, I heard it crack, and wished it was you

There's nothing like laying in sheets made of silence
I'll bury my face in you to keep in the violence
Imagine you crying over my dead body
I think I'll stay longer cuz I know you'll be sorry and
Leaves fall like I fell for you
And leave the trees naked but naked's too good to be true

I wish I was brave
I would say it to your face
There's a fly in your paint and you're put on display
No, I won't draw attention though everyone can see
I'll just keep you a secret just how you keep me
Till I can't, and I leave

But you wrote me a song
(Wait no, that was me)
I wasted lines fabricating personality
Somebody said that "you're not what you do"
But when you're doing nothing, you got nobody to lose

And I wish I was brave
I would say it to your face
There's a fly in your paint and you're put on display
No, I won't draw attention though everyone can see
I'll keep you a secret just how you keep me

And I don't think it ever gets better
Just gradually less surprising
And the results are all in from the art critics
So why am I still staring at your painting analyzing
Oh no no

And I wish I was brave
I would say it to your face
There's a fly in your paint and you're put on display
No, I won't draw attention though everyone can see
I'll just frame you in my bedroom and I'll keep you just for me
Until I can't

Until I can't
Until I can't
Until I can't
And I leave
Ooomm
credits
released July 28, 2023
produced by Shea Springer of Sweetfoot Studios
mastered by Mat of Mobtown Studios
vocals and acoustic by Daphne Eckman
drums by Robin Eckman
bass by Graham Furniss
lead electric by Mikko Dumadag
trumpet by Shea Springer
synths by Daphne Eckman and Graham Furniss
lyrics and music by Daphne Eckman

Twitter: @daphneisamyth
Instagram: @daphneeckmanmusic
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/daphneeckman
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jackson pollock

Leave me little letters all over my body
That tell me you love me so I don’t forget
I’ll hide them for strangers who don’t understand
All the codes that we speak branded into my neck

imprint your body inside my duvet
To remember your shape the next time that I sleep
Show me the places you don’t show your exes
And i’ll show you skeletons I’ve hidden deep

Wintertime is coming quick
So set me on fire, be my wick
The days get short, the nights get long
The fear comes when the birds are gone

So pass me my coat in the pile on the floor
Sorry it’s such a mess though I cleaned yesterday
Don’t leave my side till the weather gets nice
Think that I’ll never have nothing bad I could say

autumnal hymn

literally just a sad voice memo about how past toxic relationships can affect your healthy ones

i dont want to bring it (piano demo)

reprise

ampersand

drunk in your kitchen

ghost

speeding on (phoebe's song)

iris

acupuncture

shape of a man

story

clothes that we wore

This end of this week, I figured it out
I gave it a name, so when somebody shouts
In a circle of soon to be, friends for an ice break 
“What’s your biggest fear” I’ll say with no mistake

I’m scared that some day you will leave me
While I’m folding up our laundry
And the record that played when we first kissed collapses
And my old principal says I never finish classes
And nobody told me. Nobody told me. 
Nobody told me.

voice memo

A raging anthem for people pleasers everywhere, Daphne Eckman demands the last word, refuses to move, and embraces expressing  getting loud. With soaring vocals, gritty guitars, and plucky banjo, this song was produced by Bartees Strange and is guaranteed to beckon a new era, turning “sad-girl” into “mad-girl”. Available on all streaming services now.

improvement

A song for every person who has been called a good girl for giving up their needs for someone else. 

this is basically what my life has felt like the past three months

demo

spiral

22 y/o singer/songwriter from annapolis md

daphne eckman

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