FAWM: "Aftercare"

Aftercare

2 weeks ago by @dr_griff

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Aftercare

dr_griff

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Liner Notes

I wasn't sure I was going to share this one, but it's not up to me how other people interpret it. I will say it is NOT a stalker song. As the title says, it's about aftercare. IYKYK.

Lyrics

Am C G
Am C E

Capo 2
Verse 1
Am
Do you still want me?
C G
Can you open up that door?
Am
Do you still want me?
C E
I will give a little more
Am
Do you still want me?
C G
Am I still enough for you?
Am
Do you still want me?
C E
When you’ve cut me through and through?

CHORUS
F G
My heart is bleeding
Am
My soul is on fire
F G
Can you hear me pleading?
Am
I will do what you desire
F G
I can’t take this torture
Am
I don’t want it any more
F
Yet here I am
E
Still waiting by the door

Verse 2
Do you hear me?
Can you open up your mind?
Do you hear me?
Oh, please don’t be unkind
Do you hear me?
Do you know what I will do?
Do you hear me?
To be enough for you

CHORUS

Verse 3
Now I’m going
I can see that we are done
Now it’s ending
I guess you’ve had your fun
Now I’m aching
For the time I had with you
Now I’m knowing
That we are really through

CHORUS 2
My heart is scarring
My soul is burned and dead
Did you hear me crying?
I did everything you said
It’s the sweetest torture
I want it every day
And there I am
I hope to hear you say

Verse 4
That you want me
That it isn’t over now
That you love me
That you know I keep my vow
That you need me
That I heal the ache in you
When you tell me
To do what you want to do

And I do
And I do
I am true

Comments

@moonraccoon 2w

I feel sorry for your narrator who can't bring themself to move on.
Their lover needs to make a clean break, to rip off the bandaid and let the heartbroken fool re-find themself.

Perhaps that song of rediscovery could be as catchy and well-performed :)

@wynia 2w

I really dig the edge, urgency, and even plaintiveness of this. I can hear your heart in it and even though the lyrics are vague enough I can hear the specificity of the feels

@solcita 2w

The back-and-forth of the relationship, needing and being needed and the worry that you're not enough even though you've done the best you can--yes! This captures that tension so well.

@wylddandelyon 2w

Wow, that’s raw. I’d say that’s more about the moments of needing aftercare than the time of getting it, though. The emotion comes through strongly. I wonder about the “we are really through” though, since that usually would imply the end of a relationship, rather than the end of this one interaction. There might be a clearer phrase.

@matthewsanford 2w

I really like it Griff, but then you do a great job putting together songs and having them sound put together, not just rammed in.

Now I know you said it isn't a stalker kind of thing, but I think that is dependent on what the stalkee thinks of it, not the stalker... I am kidding! You know I kid! Don't worry about it kiddo! :)