Japanese Breakfast
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Japanese Breakfast
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This song first appeared as “My Mommy is Sick” on the early Japanese Breakfast release Where Is My Great Big Feeling?.
[Verse 1]
Try not to get so righteous
About what's fair for everyone
Find what's left in you
Channel something good
[Chorus]
Try your best to slowly withdraw
From the darkest impulses of your heart
Try your best to feel and receive
Your body is a blade that cuts a path from day to day
[Verse 2]
Calling it off, our hoax of trying
What's this place if you're not here?
Emptied the house and staged it for buying
Wave goodbye to all your things
[Instrumental Interlude]
[Chorus]
Try your best to slowly withdraw
Try your best to slowly withdraw
Your body is a blade that moves while your brain is writhing
Knuckled under pain, you mourn, but your blood is flowing
[Instrumental Outro]
The Body Is a Blade was written by Michelle Zauner.
The Body Is a Blade was produced by Michelle Zauner & Craig Hendrix.
Japanese Breakfast released The Body Is a Blade on Fri Jul 14 2017.
This song is about trying to figure out how to be a good person after something really terrible happens in your life. It’s about disassociating from trauma and relying on your body to physically keep pushing forward in an attempt to survive. I guess I was begging myself to not to fall into a deep de...