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Week 4 / Depression / Disaster Relief

by EMDR

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1.
Apex 05:45
I’m out late alone somewhere I don’t want to be Stranded on a dateless night when you come up and talk to me ‘You’re beautiful’ you tell me my indifference as you buy me a gin To destroy my liver and my misery all in one drink Don’t take me by the hand out of fear of letting go and Don’t lean in for a kiss and tell me it could be worse than this I save the tears for 12am Told me suck it up and drink a cup of coffee and go to work Call me full blown crazy tell me that it’s so much fun trolling me Don’t gaslight me and tell me ‘Do you really think I treat you like that?’ Don’t get offended and act surprised When I’m tired of saying ‘no’ and I say ‘yes’ Were you telling me to be resilient or just telling me to live with it? When you had to tell her it would be okay When you knew it wouldn’t what did you say? I was tired of making excuses so you never had to grow out of it I was tired of making excuses so you never had to own up to it I was tired of making excuses so you never had to own up to Creating the apex of every thought and fear I am You created the apex of every thought and fear I am Drifting off to sleep You created the apex of every thought and fear I am You created the apex (every thought and fear) of Every thought and fear You created the apex (every thought and fear I am) of Every thought and fear I am You created the apex of every thought and fear I am
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You see something you like but it’s not for sale I try to open up but the second I share you close Everyone’s got an ugly side You just gotta decide if you don’t like it So please don’t hide it You’re a covergirl you know You can pick and choose when life gets bad And I will never understand the love you threw away but could’ve had The love you threw away was all I had it wasn’t enough The love you threw away but could’ve had Can you tell me what went wrong? Can you tell me what I did to change your mind? Take my by the hand and I’ll cooperate Will you be my friend? And I’ll cooperate You can’t just tell me no if you don’t like what you hear Too bad if it hurts the truth has hurt me for years You don’t know how it left holes You’re in love with a covergirl She can pick and choose when life gets bad And I will never understand you threw away but could’ve had The love you threw away was all I had wasn’t enough The love you threw away You want to come back but all the love I gave you Was all the love I had to give Can you tell me what went wrong? Can you tell me what I did to change your mind? Take me by the hand and I’ll cooperate Will you be my friend? And I’ll cooperate

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*Content Warning: trauma, dv, ptsd

Notes:

When depression hit me in the grief cycle, I became really self-destructive. Self-medicating, sometimes I would be alone at a bar and a guy would offer to spot my drink, and that just made me want to drink more. It was 12am and I was in tears, skating way too fast down South Goodman street and just as I was about to bail out, I saw the words “Disaster Relief” plastered on the side of an EMT van. In lieu of not being able to seek proper medical attention all summer, I wrote “Apex,” my own personal disaster relief. The track is named ‘Apex’ after the iPhone ringtone that my ex used to have; and it is also a nod to my appreciation of cosmology. The beginning riff loops in a cycle throughout the background of the track with layers slowly building on top of it until it reaches its “apex” at the end with the lyrics repeating, “you created the apex of every thought and fear I am”. It is meant to imitate the apex I reached in real life after my abuser cheated on me and I had endured years of gaslighting, manipulation, and other abuse. I realized domestic abuse is not just physical. And every different kind of abuse is detrimental. This track is the culmination of how the abuse created every thought and fear I am.

The fourth ep (week 4) represents the fourth stage of grief: depression. This is the fourth installment of five under EMDR. The five eps are available as a compilation album for purchase here: emdr.bandcamp.com/album/emdr-a-five-ep-compilation

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released September 4, 2020

Viola - Cindy Lan
Beats - Mike Von Paul
Bass - Sam Snyder
Guitar / Vocals - Julia Egan

Album Art - Devon Rose, @artbydevrozie
Mixing & Mastering - Sam Snyder

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EMDR (c. 2018), fronted by guitarist and songwriter Julia, uses loop pedals, a pink fender, drums, beats, and viola to bring you indie-alternative narratives on ptsd and domestic abuse. PTS-inDie tunes for your soul.

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