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White Crosses, 2010
Written by Laura Jane Grace
This is a raw, powerful song of the end of a relationship. There's no finger-pointing, no dredging up the past, no wishful thinking or even regret. Just a bleak assessment of a relationship dead in the water. "It's the same way that it's always been / The dynamic to the relationship never changes / You can't get what you want from me, and I can't get what I need from you." The narrator laments the paucity of language: "This is the only way I know how to say we're not in love anymore." Despite the grim picture painted at the end of Grace's throat-shredding, impassioned delivery, the real emotional punch ends it: "I'm not giving up on us."
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