little story

[Intro]
she’s glowing again / inside the box / she’s got my face / but not my rot

[Verse]
I saw her on the screen at 3am
Barefoot in the dark with electric hands
Her skin shimmered like a dream I forgot
She looked like me
If I hadn’t been caught

I pressed my hand to the glass
Tried to breathe through it
I said her name but it broke
Before I knew it

My body buzzed like a warning light
Wrong shape, wrong weight, wrong light
She danced
And I just sat there, wrapped in night

[Chorus]
TV glow skin, I want to wear it
A body like that—could you even bear it?
This meat don’t fit / it creaks when I move
She’s singing in color / I’m stuck in the bruise
I want her face like I want a gun
Not to kill / just to become

[Verse]
They call it fiction
But she felt like scripture
I lit candles in my mind
And prayed to her picture

They all said she’s not real
Just a glitch in the feed
But she smiled
And it felt like she could bleed

I wanted to unzip my skin
Step into hers
Like static is silk
Like mirrors don’t hurt

But I stayed silent
Kept the mask zipped tight
Watched her vanish into
The static night

[Chorus]
TV glow skin, I want to wear it
Stitched in static / divine and errant
This flesh don’t sing / it sinks and splits
She’s the flame / I’m just the wick
I want her face like I want the truth
Not to kill / just to undo

[Outro]
She reached for me once / through the screen
But I blinked / and I was still me

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Dedicated to Rem Saverem

Watching Trigun as a kid late at night on Adult Swim. <\3 Rem made me who I am in so many more ways than I can’t explain to anyone. Those memories, my current life, and being broken by the film I Saw the TV Glow inspired this.

TV Glow Skin (Prologue)

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Jungle

Losing

Last Day Of Summer

CLEAR

Settling

Wasted

Chilombo

One Way St. (feat. Ab-Soul)

Tryna Smoke (feat. MicahFoneCheck)

P*$$Y Fairy (OTW)

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