Lucy Dacus - Thumbs
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I'm Coming With You, You Know, She's Doing Amazing
The day that i wrote thumbs was in 20 18, but the event that the song is about happened like five years before. I was 19 and had a friend who was crying cause she had just been on the phone. My brain will simply not show me what i'm not ready to see. And i think this was one of those things where just suddenly, for some reason, the timer went off like ting. It took five years, but now the thought is fully baked, and here it is out of the oven.
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