from the 2011 album "Between The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea"

Black Stone Cherry - Blame It On The Boom Boom

What I Believe:
My trauma doesn’t invalidate yours.
We are not competing in a “who suffered most” contest.
Our abusers don’t get credit for who we’ve become in spite of them.
If we pass on the trauma, they still have control.
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What I’m Doing:
Most of my songs are the words I needed to hear as a brainwashed child.
I’m not trying to write songs to be heard.
I’m trying to write songs that might let others know they are heard.
I’m still healing.
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Just Facts:
I was born into a cult. I’m in an Amazon Prime documentary — so no, I’m not being dramatic.
My father read me the cult’s teachings while I was still in the womb.
Isolation from the world wasn’t a season of my life. It was my world.
Formal education was considered a secular sin.
Any music outside the cult’s hymn book was dangerous to me, both physically and psychologically.
The first song I ever heard was “Crawling in My Skin” by Linkin Park. The way it made me feel… terrified me.
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What I Did:
I asked questions they couldn’t — or wouldn’t — answer. And I was punished for it.
At 21, I escaped. I went homeless for almost a year.
I took a new name.
I crossed a border.
I dismantled every core belief I was taught, because nothing could be trusted.
I educated myself over the next 15 years.
I built a life. I built a home and a family.
I became what the cult fears most: someone they lost control of.
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If you’re trapped, escaping, or free — you’re not alone.
Our journeys aren’t the same, but healing doesn’t have to be done in silence.

If you write me, I’ll listen. I won’t give you my answers.
I’ll help you find yours.

I'm not trying to attack religion. I'm only trying to help others confirm what beliefs are their, and which ones were forced into them.

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Why I Use AI (for Now)

All lyrics are 100% written by me.
I tried collaborating with bands, but most said these lyrics would make a “crap song.”
So I formed an AI band to sing them.

If any band ever wants to collaborate, I’d love to collaborate with more than AI!

But until then, I refuse to be unheard just because I’m tone-deaf.

Lyrics are music too.


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Black Stone Cherry - Blame It On The Boom Boom

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