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Trash & Ruin
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A jumpy, simple anti-love song...
joanna lavan female girl
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Female sung straight-forward rock with a touch of darkness...literally
All my songwriting comes from a place of total honesty and a sense of sarcasm. I sing about love and all the emotional complexities of being in love, losing yourself, toughening yourself up and all in all the struggles of being alive.
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Genre
Alternative • Alternative General
Charts
#23,605 today Peak #231
#7,252 in subgenre Peak #75
Author
Joanna
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Yes
Uploaded
September 21, 2003
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MP3 2.8 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
I wrote this song long ago about being trapped in a relationship that wasn't bad or good - it was just stagnant. I just felt so fed up and drained because there was no solution except to go round and round. To illustrate the feeling of frustration - I wanted the lyrics to be so simple with childishly obvious rhymes, repeating the same lyrics over and over. "I am living in your dream - the kind where I can't make a scream...." This was recorded in Chicago with the band Circle Horse. I don't remember recording this very clearly but I remember there was a Dunkin Donuts right next to the studio and a rocking Mexican restaurant across the street. So in between takes it was all about glazed donuts and nachos so heavy with cheese you'd strain an arm muscle lifting it to your mouth. Oh to be young again...
Lyrics
I guess I knew it all along That this was feeling all wrong I should have told you from the start That you can't squeeze blood from a broken heart I am living in your dream The kind where you can't make a scream I am trying to make this real But the things I give you, you just steal What's the matter with you baby Don't you know that I'm not gonna save ya Cuz I see you Trash n Ruin all those things I gave you and you and you ah! I am living in your dream The kind where you can't make a scream I am trying to make this real But the things I give you, you just steal I guess I knew it all along That this was feeling all wrong I should have told you from the start That you can't squeeze blood from a broken heart I am living in your dream The kind where I can't make a scream I am trying to make this real But the things I give you, you just steal I am living in your dream The kind where I can't make a scream I am trying to make this real But the things I give you, you just sa sa steal
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