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Shapeshifter
01:27
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SHAPESHIFTER
Faggot to fetish to unfuckable mess
You laugh at my face and you stare at my breasts
I’m a shapeshifter
I manipulate gaze
Change presentation just to feel safe
What is an act - what is innate?
Do I get desire, derision or hate?
Do you see woman
Do you see fag
Just a washed up transsexual hag
You falsely believe the truth’s in between
You refuse to see me as a human being
But still I gotta to let my body be seen
So I play your fucking games
Know a little forethought
changes the perception you got
But its so fucking hot
Gonna take my shot
Do you see me as a woman today
Am I threat or am I prey?
Remember my gender
never make a mistake
But oh god there’s days I just want to break
And I’ll lie and I’ll respond to sir
Die a little inside but I won’t get hurt
Hoodies are magic
And I can’t be stopped
By the lies and the hatred, the self proclaimed cops
But sometimes just to get what I want
I got to turn down the magic and I choose a new top
So I pull up my hood when I want to turn off
The catcalls the glares and the hate that you’ve got
Nothing I like about being perceived
Read the tattoo on my wrist it says she
slash her
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2. |
Pride
00:40
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Not going to stoop to define myself
By things I’m against or where I need help
Fights that they started are just fucking that
And I choose the terms
and I’m taking it back
Taking it back
Taking it back
You fucks
hits a little a different when you’re fucking gay
realize your an outcast; born this fucking way
hardcore pride is a fucking sham
you left us at the curb when the fights began
You like to stay out of politics
That’s a really privileged trick
We can’t afford it
We can’t afford it
There are lives on the fucking line
This ain’t no god-damn game
My friends and I are fucking scared
You’re just having another day
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Dicks
00:52
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DICKS
You have to stop having strong emotions about penises.
Like we, as a society, have got to stop caring about dicks!
We will never be free
If you continue
To equate me
With one piece
Of my
Anatomy
My presence ain’t an attack
And you need to disbelieve
That a woman with a dick
Is somehow a threat
But you’ve got strong feelings
‘Bout what this thing represents
Dicks don’t have to symbolize a thing
Not dominance, or aggression
This just exists
This isn’t maleness
Or sexuality
It’s just another fucking part of me
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4. |
Truscum
01:23
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TRUSCUM
Go!
There is no space
For truscum
Here
You demand sickness but I am okay
I wouldn’t wish
my trans-ness away
The pills the shots
Or the patches I’ve got
It’s only one fucking way
Never enough
if we don’t behave
Assimilate
Passing’s the game
I am fucking fine
Never being cis
There is no space
For truscum here
Transmedicalist schemes
Have to disappear
I won’t buy it
And I deny it!
Gatekept enough by the doctors
I’ll never listen to you
They’ll never accept us
If normals the goal
Don’t you know that
there’s a long way to go
And you’re
sabotaging us
Fuck you
I salute your surgeries
Take every attempt
be who you wanna be
But don’t expect the same
from every fucking journey
We found life outside the binary
We found space for all my friends and me
However we are we’re just how trans should be
And I’m never going back
Again
I’m hard binary and I’m here to say that transition is a fucking journey
with no destination sometimes
And you never win,
There’s no A to B no final boss
But don’t let anyone take your transness away from you
No one
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5. |
Chosen Family
01:41
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CHOSEN FAMILY
I have two daughters not of blood
but chosen family
A couple siblings
mean the fucking world to me
We keep each other safe
We took each other in
I can’t imagine
my life without them
I know that I am lucky
And that there are way too few
Who were born with blood like mine
I’ve seen too many lose their line
And tho I’ve had some luck with happenstance
Blood relatives and romance
Chosen family means as much to me
I have two daughters not of blood
but chosen family
Still hurts a bit
That that’s the extent of mother in me
But I can’t breed and I don’t wanna pass my genes
And I’m scared enough for the world I leave them
Everybody dies
in the end
And we’re watching it burn around us
makes me sick as it sinks in
If you can’t take this seriously
What will I be leaving them?
You say I’m crazy
But I’ve lost too many friends
I have siblings not of blood
but chosen family
And I’m gonna do everything I can
To see that they outlive me
All I ever wanted
Is their life to have a little ease
But it might be too late for me
But they won’t have my memories
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Responsibility
01:28
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RESPONSIBILITY
I struggle to be kind when you expect me to be strong
inside another box of definitions if I don’t fit I don’t belong
And expectations of masculinity have given way to what?
Inspiration
but for who?
And god I’ve just had enough
And do I have responsibility
to those who followed me?
I can barely keep myself together
Now you’ve asked me to lead
I can show you the path I took
But know that there will be regrets
Society makes it hard for us
and we haven’t solved that yet
and I cringe inside when I see you make the same mistakes as me
and I wince inside ‘cause I know what’s next
when they come out to to me
But we stick it out
Tho some strike out
Cross out old letters change our names
I guess this is my legacy
But I didn’t make you trans
I apologize I’m not perfect
Inspiration porn
It looks so easy when it starts
It’s all new and you’re reborn
And I only
show the good parts
Just a little bit of the tears
But it’s not my fault you lost attention
When things got fucking real.
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7. |
TOMBOYCORE
00:51
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TOMBOYCORE
You can’t stop me
As I define
my femininity
And this is
who I’m supposed to be
Trans gal
tomboy-core
But I’m still a goddamn she
Androgyny don’t negate a trans identity
And I’m still a woman
Just cause you don’t want me
Doesn’t make it false
Check it!
Get it correct
It’s simple respect
Don’t owe you
anything
Get it correct or get lost
My femininity don’t fit your bill
And I don’t jump thru hoops
And I never will
I tried to assimilate and play your game
All I ever got was dicks in my DMs
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8. |
Only 90's Kids Remember
01:29
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ONLY 90'S KIDS REMEMBER
If you don’t like that my voice is pitched low
You shoulda let me be a girl when I said so
A queer history that you didn't teach
meant I didn't know that this was in reach
Instead I got a gay-straight-alliance
just a place where I learned to shut up and be quiet
Cause this was an act
and this was a costume
There's was things to which I was accustomed
Denial and hatred being chief among them
I hated myself and the thoughts that you brought in
Invasive for sure, but what's a kid s'posed to know
'Bout gender and sex when you never said "so -
We’ve noticed you've been writing down words
Wearing dresses and acting absurd"
I mean I appreciate that nobody narc'd
But you didn't know what to do
And I'm in the dark
When you taught me 'bout Pride
Why didn’t you mention
Trans women and queers
Where was Rivera and Johnson
Revisionist history -
and maybe it's fuzzy
But a mention in passing woulda been lovely
I caught the wrong episode
"Up next on Springer"
You saw the freaks, man,
But I saw a dead ringer
They didn't tell me what I could be
Left on my own -
waiting
Let’s See
That's the thing
that bothers me most
I didn't try
cause I didn't know
There's things I should have done in my twenties
Whole decades of girlhood just stole the fuck from me
You stole my childhood, my true adolescence
Just for what?
To teach me a lesson?
I'm not all mad
Y’all didn't know
But I’m making sure this never happens again
Never happens again
I’m not mad
You didn’t know
But I’m making sure this never happens again
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9. |
I Believe In You
00:22
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I BELIEVE IN YOU
When comes time to blossom into a woman you can’t let anything stop you.
I believe in you
If you want to
You can do it.
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10. |
Why Can't You Be Kind?
01:52
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WHY CAN’T YOU BE KIND?
There’s something I was taught
There’s something I was taught
“Unto the least of these”
By folks who’ve gone on
To do wrong by me
But I there’s still something
I desperately believe
About about our purpose as humanity
And the way I want to live
And I won’t stop until I die
Don’t understand why you won’t try
To live with a some compassion
To make better life just happen
Cause when all was said and done
You just cut and run
I can’t understand
WHY CAN’T YOU BE KIND?
Seriously?
Do you think poverty is a moral failure?
I’m not here to brag about what I’ve done
It’s never enough and there’s always more
But you see a human in need?
Why would you disparage them
I know we can’t all give
I understand the strength of circumstance
But your attitude and judgment
Over the victims of chance
Makes me sick
It’s stacked against us
Each other’s all we ever have
Solidarity and unity
By deed and by act
There’s something I was taught
And you’re just standing by
And casting blame
Who’re you to judge
Another human being?
If I asked for help
Would you not give it to me?
Why the disconnect here
I just don’t see
Don’t all deserve
Help in times of need
Standing with each other
As we live and breathe
On this hill I’ll die
But as long as I can stand
I’m helping out my humans
And I don’t understand
WHY CAN’T YOU BE KIND
WHY CAN’T YOU BE KIND
WHY CAN’T YOU BE KIND
WHY CAN’T YOU BE KIND
WHY CAN’T YOU BE KIND
WHY CAN’T YOU BE KIND
WHY CAN’T YOU BE KIND
WHY CAN’T YOU BE KIND
WHY CAN’T YOU BE KIND
WHY CAN’T YOU BE KIND
WHY CAN’T YOU BE KIND
WHY CAN’T YOU BE KIND
WHY CAN’T YOU BE KIND
WHY CAN’T YOU BE KIND
WHY CAN’T YOU BE KIND
WHY CAN’T YOU BE KIND
WHY CAN’T YOU BE KIND
WHY CAN’T
YOU BE
KIND
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The Obvious Tells Burlington, Vermont
The Obvious Tells is a punk/hardcore/d-beat band of the decidedly queer and trans variety, by Jessica Amelia, a trans woman living in Burlington, Vermont.
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