Sarah about the lyrics

Midland is written about my mom. She has a degenerative neurological condition that makes her lose her language, memory, and self. Midland is a story about their interactions with the disease, as well as acknowledging family trauma from rape, religion, and grief.

A Prayer's lyrics are fairly blatant. We came up with this song to let out frustration regarding our current political world. We deserve the world we create. This song also has hope that someday soon we can truly build a new world from the ashes of the old.

Destroyer is a story about abusive relationships. An ex-partner took all of my stories, the positives and my grief, and used them as their own. They stole my identity from me so they could capitalize from it and then use it against me. This song is a big ol' fuck you to them, their gaslighting, and their manipulation.

Pity is about self destructive tendencies and not being able to trust your gut. It is an internal dialogue of trying to figure out what has "worth", what is "productive" and how capitalism is crushing us.

Praxis is kind of a joke about call out culture. Folks seem to deem call out culture to be the end all of dealing with internal problems to make them external in a given scene, but instead just alienate each other from the scene. If the goal is to stop problematic behavior, that must involve processes that interrupt the quo, not just move it somewhere else. PS KILL YOUR LOCAL RAPIST

House Rule is about sacrificing yourself for someone else. Too often us queer, trans, poc, and other oppressed groups are expected to do the heavy lifting in a society where we get nothing back. Mutual aid is cool. Buy us pizza.

Interlude and Last Song don't have set lyrics. They are a little looser just to get out whatever needs to get out.