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This song has nothing to do with the pandemic, written in 2018...

And here's the accompanying poem featured on the track art:

Like a Girl

I sit on the train with my legs crossed tight
Wish on a star, wish I might
Disappear
Levitate
Sprout wings
Take flight

So he won't see me run
Like a girl

He rips my skirt with his eyes
Like a snake, up my thighs
I'm pacing my breathing and yearning for light
For a witness to shout against this crime in the night
I'm hoping for armor, for visible might

So he won't know I'm scared
Like a girl

The train comes to a halt
And to my dismay
His stop is my stop
Trump said it's okay,
So he grabs me by the pussy
Just hours before day
Before sunlight could reveal this monster—
Legs splay
Concealing my screams with the darkness
I pray

So he won't see me cry
Like a girl

The sun rises—even after the blackest night
My heart freezes—even with my legs crossed tight
Fearing any faceless man could take it all away
All the beauty and the wild glowing inside me
Somewhere thawing ice from the reality:
That a woman is still less in this country
That a glance is still mistaken for an invitation—
And a human is confused for an object
My pussy is not yours to disrespect.
My body is whatever I want it to be
I decide how much of my thigh you see
All my beauty—all my wild belongs to me
And i'll march through the darkness with my flag in the air

So you know that I'll fight
Like a girl

-Jill Homlish

lyrics

Yeah i see you there but i'm not gonna look
You can pull up and whisper but i've read your book
And i should've burned it but i wouldn't waste
No i wouldn't waste my fire on you

You funny disease
I know the cure
You'll make nothing of me
I won't fuel your war

Yeah i heard you the first time you insolent fool
More fury more spit don't make it more true
But i'll let you drain your shallow source
Go ahead drain your lungs, your swamp

You hungry disease
I've got the cure
You'll make nothing of me
I won't fuel your war

On equality, reality
On peace
On humanity, humility
On the trees

We'll march for the sun and shroud you in dark
All your power, you scum, will go out with a spark
You can stay in the center of your nothing at all
Trapped in between yourself and your wall

You filthy machine
We'll cut your cord
Whatever you seize
We'll trample your sword

credits

from think it's night (EP), released May 1, 2020
Guitars, bass, piano, drums, vocals: gabby sherba
Recorded and mixed by Bob Stander at Parcheesi Studio
Mastered by Kevin Reeves
Written by gabby sherba

Track art:
Photo captured by Jill Homlish
Poem written by Jill Homlish
Assembled by gabby sherba

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yesterday and the undoing Brooklyn, New York

This is gabby sherba's solo project. What's relevant here? That the central verb of her life is to heal? Often by way of unraveling. As a lyricist, she is inspired primarily by dysfunction. As a composer: by light (that it both hides and reveals, that it is both wave and particle), plants, fungi. As a vocalist: by veins, roots, reaching underneath something and pulling it up through the sky. ... more

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