well put

*Please don't love how I need you*



Western Nights

Ethel Cain

# *Tried to recall the memory of peaches, the sun on my neck*







Tactics

Japanese Breakfast

<n>Обводный канал / Obkhodnoy kanal</n>, 2022.

To the cheap hotel right behind the club

In room twenty or twenty four

Call me when you're outside



*Cheap Hotel, FKA Twigs*

# *Things I once enjoyed just keep me employed now. Things I'm longing for someday I'll be bored of*







Getting Older

Billie Eilish

*It's a beautiful party, and it's not mine to ruin.* *Don't do it*



Lizard

Samia

# *So many foreign worlds, so relatively fucked, so ready for us*







Creature Fear

Bon Iver

<n>Rachel McAdams</n> and <n>Ryan Gosling</n> in a scene from the 2004 film <n>The Notebook</n>.

I know you by your knock on the door
I know you by your footsteps on the floor



*A Knock At The Door, Ethel Cain*

# *A haunted house, a picket fence, to float around and ghost my friend*







I Know The End

Phoebe Bridgers

Stars in my peripheral, you'd think it was funny

You told me, "I hate your life, and I hate all your money"



*Wild and Alone, FKA Twigs (feat. PinkPantheress)*

A photograph from the book <n>Family of Lies</n> by <n>Hajime Kimura</n>.

And then you came out with this line, so crucial

Yeah, "If it has to happen, baby, do you want to know?"

I don't know, I don't know

But what a line
What a fucking line



*Ruminating, Lily Allen*

# *Brought by the sunlight of the spirit to pour into me. There's a name for it in Japanese it's Kintsugi*







Kintsugi

Lana Del Rey

A still from <n>Alfred Hitchcock</n>'s 1945 film <n>Spellbound</n>, with a dream sequence by <n>Salvador Dalí</n>.

Held close all the time, knowing I’m half of you

*Nettles, Ethel Cain*

Aperture lets the light in



*Aperture, Harry Styles*

<n>Ethel Cain</n> photographed by <n>Silken Weinberg</n> for <n>Teeth Magazine</n>. Styled by <n>Peri Rosenzweig</n>.

A 1965 photograph of <n>Jeanne Moreau</n> by <n>Douglas Kirkland</n> for <n>Look Magazine</n>.

# *When the world divides into two people: those who have felt pain and those who have yet to*









Posing in Bondage

Japanese Breakfast

A film still from <n>Claire's Knee</n> (1970), directed by <n>Éric Rohmer</n>.

# *And at once I knew I was not magnificent*







Holocene

Bon Iver

Photo by <n>Jayden</n> via <n>somelight | magazine</n>.

# *Not that I miss you, I don't, sometimes I just can't believe you happened*







Twilight Zone

Ariana Grande

# *Why wait for the best when I could have you?*







Norman Fucking Rockwell

Lana Del Rey

*So we spent what was left of our serotonin to chew on our cheeks and stare at the moon*







Graceland Too

Phoebe Bridgers

But you moved the goalposts, you’ve broken the rules

I tried to accommodate, but you took me for a fool

So I read your text, and now I regret it

I can't get my head ’round how you've been playing tennis



*Tennis, Lily Allen*

You write, I tour, we make it work. You're beautiful, and I'm insane



*Venice Bitch,* *Lana Del Rey*

Musician <n>Ethel Cain</n> in a photograph embodying her <n>Southern Gothic</n> aesthetic.

<n>Ring for two</n> by artist <n>Otto Künzli</n>, 1980.