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I wrote The Body first, at the end of a shift at Twin House music store. It’s written from the perspective of a chaplain at Wake Forest University who has just watched highlights from the BME Pain Olympics.
The chaplain felt a very real call to explore their own body in similarly drastic ways, but their position makes that impossible. They’re stuck in a body that does not line up with who they feel themselves to be. It’s impossible to live well in a dark place like that.
Body dysmorphia and self hatred is sad and bad. Trans, non-binary, and other queer peoples are often locked in conundrums similar to the chaplain’s. The song is an empathetic short story to my non-binary and trans friends; thank you for being yourselves.
The song is also a claim to my own body. I wish I never felt shame about my shape. I wish I was less scared. I’m a sober person in recovery (I attack my own body with my own body when I’m sick.) The song reminds me that I can be brave(r).
Your body was meant for you. Anyone who tells you differently can get fucked because that’s the devil.
lyrics
I could have moved to Berlin.
Oh well, here I am.
I could have learned the language.
Oh well, here I am.
I guess that leather ball gag is not for me.
I could have been swinging up there easily.
I could have been looking down from the ceiling.
Fish hooks through my back like it ain’t no thing.
Like my body was meant for me.
I could have known the feeling of the razor through my tongue -
Splitting my spoon into a fork.
I kept what I was given because I was told God’s image
Didn’t match with what I imagined myself to be.
Oh no! Here I am…
With what I knew myself to be.
Oh no. Here I am without a body meant for me.
Another of our fave hymns that we like to sing at our gatherings.Mr Taylor never fails to deliver, Jesus shot me in the Head indeed.Walk into the light. drbaz
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