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Keep the Door Closed

from the nuclear family by Matt Collaborate

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keep the door closed was written and recorded in September 2020 and finished in January 2021.

lyrics

keep the door closed
nobody’s home
gonna catch a cold
that’s what I was told
limit what you show

what do you know about feeling vulnerable?
putting up a wall around my soul
what’s left of my soul I want to keep

when you’re born with a curse
when you’re not last or first
they put you in the middle

self-fulfilling prophecy
doubt planted like a seed
your upbringings a riddle

when you anger is repressed
they say that you're depressed
they always need a label

I spent half my life
psychoanalyzed
but what of Cain and Abel?

sometimes I think of Plath
Anne Sexton and her gas
holding her glass
just like Kerouac

why am I so obsessed with Death?
why can’t I open up my past?
I spent my whole life trying to get away from them

I won’t be another
writers tragic end

credits

from the nuclear family, released April 10, 2021
Audio from Sylvia Plath reading "Daddy" (1962)

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Matt Collaborate Evesham Township, New Jersey

A solo project where I do a lot of covers, and originals that I write or collaborate with people.

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