What You Taught Me (Baby)

by Year Without A Summer

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What if the things that I learned were there to frighten me?
What are the things I don't know? Please enlighten me
No fictitious wizard or priest
Can shape the way that I think, or if they did, well at least, like

Hey, it's not too late to change
It's not winter time
And I'm not frozen in stone
Hey, no need to turn away,
Just tell yourself: their thoughts don't matter to us

And when you fought me
Well, what it taught me
Where might that take me?
Baby, baby, baby, baby!
And what you gave me
And what you made me
Well, that just saved me
Baby, baby, baby, baby!

Sometimes I just can't face talking persuasively
Comforting silence and ignorance embraces me
If people use their platform to say that which enrages
We'll shine brighter spotlights, we'll build bigger stages

Hey, it's not too late to change
It's not winter time
And we're not frozen in stone
Hey, no need to turn away
We just tell ourselves: their thoughts don't matter to us

And when you fought me
Well, what it taught me
Where might that take me?
Baby, baby, baby, baby!
And what you gave me
And what you made me
Well, that just saved me
Baby, baby, baby, baby!

If people want to spend their time
Doubling down, being constantly online
Until their hate becomes their legacy
I suppose they're free? Like, it's weird to me
But one day
These people won't matter with their stupid opinions
We'll fight them on their speeches
And those fights we'll win, then
Those people won't matter
They'll shrink in stature
They'll go down in tatters
Like these people don't matter at all.

credits

released September 12, 2020
Cait Buckley: art (instagram.com/caitybunny)
Joe Wilson: everything else (instagram.com/yearwithoutasummer)

Thank you Chloe Lynch - Diana Stefanescu - Sarah-Beth Gilbert

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Year Without a Summer Coventry, UK

Beach-shack post-punk. Solo play in the bedroom. Sailed from St Annes, washed up in Coventry. Interests include apocalypse survival, false memories, moths.

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