Daughter is a song about how as songwriters we’re expected to be sort of martyrs for pain in that it’s our job to dig deep and relive traumas to make them a song. This was me feeling resistant to that because I was trying to dig up dark feelings to write a record, while simultaneously trying to beco...
[Intro]
Right?
[Verse 1]
How much is mine to keep?
How much is changing?
Take it down and take it deep
Lure the pain in
That's what you get
That's the goodness
[Chorus]
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Right? Right?
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[Verse 2]
Patron saint of holding on
Let it swallow you whole
Push it further, further
Take it back as far as it goes
Collapse in a pile on the floor
You're our daughter
What are you good for?
[Chorus]
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Right? Right?
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