The song is about striving to be a better, honest person despite being emotionally exhausted and worn down by the rigours of expectation; to give it your best shot while remembering to keep enough for yourself. You don't just heal yourself once; you do it again and again.

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Artist: @acherubintheashtray

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Emily Gates - These Are The Laurels

This confessional traces a lifelong imprint of fear shaped by culture, silence, and the ache for identity; learning to name what was never safe to speak.

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Emily Gates - I've Been Afraid

1. Soul Decline -Degee
2. Ghost Ryder Remix- Dlayman x Ghost Ryder
3. Cold Halo - Graffiti City
4. Bitch Please, Do Better - Cicada
5. Wrecking ball - (Filthy Rebel Scum Mix)-Dlayman
6. Fallin’ again - Team Originally Made
7. Erase - Kara Vale
8. Just Can’t Stop My Heart (Richmond Remix)  - Richmond x Decrypted 
9. Death Notes on Birthing Blankets- Nezkith 
10. I Want This and That- Richmond
11. Cocaine Gospel- Matt
12. Ideas (Midnight Funk Remix)- Nu Idolz
13. Come Find the AI Underground- Roy Thigpen
14. Gift From God- Roy Thigpen
15. All That I Said - Vikingur
16. Ride The Wave -Deegee
17. Fungis With Benefits (RichmondRemix)- Richmond x Zalixor
18. Honesty Frontier- Emily Gates
19. 404- Ever Yours - Garnetflame
20. Alone -West Coast Brothers Strange
21. Drip Drip Drip -Cicada

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