FAWM: "This Wounded Heart"

This Wounded Heart

NSFW

Liner Notes

# liner

#nsfw

TRIGGER WARNING: self violence / domestic violence

I thought about making this song private, but there are so few people who will see it I thought it would be okay to leave as a trigger warning. hopefully that is okay with fawm. If not please just click back and move on. Not that I think it's too personal or too deep, but after writing the song it seemed a little too violent. i just don't want anyone who doesn't want to hear these things to have to hear them, but unfortunately that is where I am. Next one will have to be happy for sure.

# details

written : 2/22/2025
started: 11:34 pm
ended: 12:44 pm
first demo: 1:21 am
v2: 336am

# notes

something is off on the first chorus, was playing around with a F and different chords but this is a song i just want to write and file away but also something i'm oddly attracted to. maybe i could rewrite the chorus. i feel like the hook falls a bit flat.
this take was decent even with it's problems, mostly the choruses. i've been really working on bm and this bridge sounds great if i can hit the chord, it's so close and i hit it on "content with scars and tears" on this take. could probably get a better take but was wanting to write another song and it's late.

Lyrics

[capo 2]
Em C
i'm sick, of these thoughts in my head
G D
tired of pretending you'll understand

em c
and i'm not saying, that i need your help
lord knows you got to save yourself

em
punch me, kick me
am
close the door
c g
show me, that you don't care

em
shoot me, stab me
am
twist the blade
C g
i don't need this wounded heart

em -c - g - d
and you don't owe me a god damn thing
but it be nice to know you care
and if we can't share our breath
than it's not worth breathing at all

bm - am - em - walk
but still i cling to the this life
content with scars and tears
but i'd fight for your love
if just one day to live

[alt chorus]
am
punch me, kick me
em
close the door
c g
show me, that you don't care

em
shoot me, stab me
am
twist the blade
C g
i don't need a wounded heart

Em -----
i'm sick, of these thoughts in my head

Comments

@hyssop 1h

Thank you for sharing this, I appreciate the courage it takes! "Lord knows youve got to save yourself" hits so hard. Its hard when you're both drowning and it seems the only way out is to let the other person shove you under the water. Sharing a breath, being willing to die rather than to be without them, you capture such huge feelings so well. There's a Florence Welch lyric that goes "I love you so much I'm gonna let you kill me" that's stuck with me forever, and this song fits right into that playlist. Thank you again for keeping this up, its a really beautiful song and so well performed. Sending love to you!