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Anorexic Complex (Sasha's Theme)

from Mass Amount of Love by Douglas Shepherd

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This song was about my roommate who was slowly wasting away due to a "speed ball" habit she had developed while I was away on tour.
On that same tour I read the two volume autobiography of Emma Goldman and was taken by Alexander Berkman's (Sasha - his nickname) plight in Riker's Island and their distant though paralleling stories

lyrics

the ones that wear the worst are the ones that we work
and you know this
but you still insist on wearing yourself so thin, so sad

that all you ever had
wore you down so bad
so bad you couldn't even
enjoy what you had

and it wasn't easy to watch you waste away
but what more could i do?
you wouldn't let me help you
you'd just sit up in your room and cover up your head
and pray to god you were dead

the ones that slip away are the ones that we let go
and it seems so simple
but still we insist on letting go of everything we have
or think we have

and all we thought we had
wore us down so bad
so bad we couldn't even
hold onto what we had

credits

from Mass Amount of Love, released January 1, 2001
cello - Nicole Welch
guitars, vocals - Douglas Shepherd

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