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Steubenville​/​Play the Memory

from Until It's Beautiful by Everything in Pen

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about

yes, this song is based on the Steubenville rape trial. So many people knew what happened and did nothing

You can read more about the trial here: www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/life-after-steubenville

lyrics

I don’t want to carry a gun
Don’t want to have to know how to use one
I don’t want to learn how to hurt you
To keep you from hurting me more

Last thing I knew
You said you’d get me home
Now I am responsible for the fear you caused

Person after person tries to say
They didn't realize that it was wrong
To shame and to humiliate, to slander, to broadcast
To ignore

Wasn’t it you who said you’d get me home
Now I am responsible but the choice was yours
And I’m less sure
Of anyone, of everyone

Play the memory back I’m not afraid
Play the memory back I’m not afraid
Play the memory back I’m not afraid
Find me the darkest place
I want the wildest place
Give me the hardest place

Make a blanket of sticks and leaves
Rest my back up against this tree
Leave the traces they still won’t find me
Leave the traces they still won’t find me

Where the streetlights won’t make a sound
The periphery stays unknown
Where the rumors cannot be true
Where the rumors cannot be

Play the memory back I’m not afraid
Play the memory back I’m not afraid
Play the memory back I’m not afraid
Find me the darkest place
I want the wildest place
Give me the hardest place

credits

from Until It's Beautiful, released September 2, 2015
Elizabeth: vocals, guitar
Alexi: guitar, bass, keys, piano

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Combining the pop sensibility of Big Star and narrative observations of Jonathan Richman and Aimee Mann, Everything in Pen’s songs cover many topics---war criminals, sexism, and Dave Eggers--through her unique lens as an obsessive reader. She sings the things you won’t say aloud, of the foolishness, the hopefulness and the almost unbearable humanness of us all. ... more

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