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Perfume Genius - Slip Away (Re-Issue)

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A Love Is Born, It's a Love I Write for You

"I had been getting shippd for being gay before, before i had kissed any one," he says. "Those people telling you those things eventually translate into you... You keep it with you, and you start telling it to yourself." The song is about love in the face of other people telling you it's wrong or not natural - but can't be broken by them.

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