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The Truth I Told Myself (Demo)

by Claire Donato

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Recorded in July 2021 in my bathroom in Brooklyn, NY. Mixed on my bed. "Her reaction is invariably to blame herself for your failure" is excerpted from Dorothy Tennov's "The Reaction of Women to the Inferior Status of Women." Diego is my friend Diego Antoni.

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I wanted to excavate the truth
I told myself
Sweep it all away

Her reaction is invariably to blame
Herself for your failure

The camera has no flash in it
There was a light in your eyes, Diego says
The bones under the words
Support the words
As the minarets reflect the sound
I laid on the sand

A toddler wanted to take my cell phone
For the sake of a picture

It’s for an art project, I said
Where’s your dad?
Maybe he wants to give me his number
And wade in the water

I wait for no one
In the lacuna
Searching for a resting place
An eye that is an access point
To the base of a spine

Such is a serif
Typeface anatomy
Depressed in paper
A man who is also paper

I drew him clothes
I fabricated a home
The bed was made from cardboard

You’re so much more beautiful in person
You’re not pixelated anymore

Her reaction is invariably to blame
Herself for your failure

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released July 28, 2021
Lyrics, guitar, crude mixing: Claire Donato

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Claire Donato Brooklyn, New York

I write songs on my bed, practice Zen meditation, illustrate myself naked in fish tanks, take 35mm photos, and am the author of some books, essays, poems.

Here's an EP I made when I was 20: friendshippa.bandcamp.com
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