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Bildungsroman

from Magical Realism by Kelsey Jarboe

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"Bildungsroman" is the German word for a coming of age novel. This song is a composite of actual attempts at broken-hearted crooning that I wrote between the ages of fifteen and twenty. I revisited them and put them together to tell a story about learning to see the objects of teenage obsession for who or what they really are.

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You will see just what you've meant to me
I still cannot believe you don't belong to me
So take me now, you better scream my name out loud
You better want to stick around and want me

But I am stronger than I knew and it happened overnight
Without a whimper or a fight
I don't know when I don't know how but I've got a family now
I've got a family now

And they don't judge, no they won't judge, they'll share their skin
They'll let you stay
And if you don't amount to much, we will forgive
Don't go away

I believe in almost never to nothing
And you know how I used to be someone with such strong views, oh
Now I see why you must now be leaving
And I thank you for teaching me that love won't see us through, no

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from Magical Realism, released May 21, 2011

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