I'm 23 years old and I am broken, but I'm trying; and I have your music to thank for that. Your music makes me feel alive, the lyrics make me feel not so alone and it gives me hope that maybe there is salvation for someone like me after all.
I discovered your music in April of 2015, with the release of Fairly Local. After hearing that one song, I proceeded to spend hours listening to every song of yours on YouTube, and watching as many interviews as I could. I wanted to know you, because you were the first people who seemed to understand what I have been struggling with for a few years now. This war I have going on inside my head, you seemed to understand what that feels like. Your album vessel, it became a symbol of hope for me, so much so that I now how "vessel" tattooed on my arm, as well as the lyrics "we're all battling fear".
All I can say is thank you.
Behind that "thank you" is all the poems you have inspired me to write; but those poems will never see the light of day (and maybe that is okay). And all the ideas for art I've been inspired to create but can't actually create because I don't have the artistic ability to (which is quite frustrating). And finally behind that "thank you" is the small thought, that you are able to give just enough strength to crawl through the darkness of my own head to the surface; the thought that maybe one day I would have bled enough to realize that .:: I am alive ::. and have a soul, and that maybe just maybe I too will meet someone who will be the .:: tear in my heart ::. and will help to show me how. This "thank you" is merely a .:: vessel ::. for all the words, and art that I want to share with you but there just isn't enough space on the page.
This letter may sound like a bunch of my thoughts just fell on to the page, but please understand it is hard for me to put into words what you and your music mean to me, and what it has done for me, Life is hard, my life is hard, and the world can be a cold dark place. I don't know yet if your music can fix that, but it does make the ride a lot smoother than it could be. I now know that I am not the lone passenger on this boat through life. I'm not the only one using your music to calm the waters.
Finally, I may not have been there from the beginning, but please know I will be there, standing with you, till the end.
.:: stay street - stay unlit - and never stay low ::.
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I discovered your music in April of 2015, with the release of Fairly Local. After hearing that one song, I proceeded to spend hours listening to every song of yours on YouTube, and watching as many interviews as I could. I wanted to know you, because you were the first people who seemed to understand what I have been struggling with for a few years now. This war I have going on inside my head, you seemed to understand what that feels like. Your album vessel, it became a symbol of hope for me, so much so that I now how "vessel" tattooed on my arm, as well as the lyrics "we're all battling fear".
All I can say is thank you.
Behind that "thank you" is all the poems you have inspired me to write; but those poems will never see the light of day (and maybe that is okay). And all the ideas for art I've been inspired to create but can't actually create because I don't have the artistic ability to (which is quite frustrating). And finally behind that "thank you" is the small thought, that you are able to give just enough strength to crawl through the darkness of my own head to the surface; the thought that maybe one day I would have bled enough to realize that .:: I am alive ::. and have a soul, and that maybe just maybe I too will meet someone who will be the .:: tear in my heart ::. and will help to show me how. This "thank you" is merely a .:: vessel ::. for all the words, and art that I want to share with you but there just isn't enough space on the page.
This letter may sound like a bunch of my thoughts just fell on to the page, but please understand it is hard for me to put into words what you and your music mean to me, and what it has done for me, Life is hard, my life is hard, and the world can be a cold dark place. I don't know yet if your music can fix that, but it does make the ride a lot smoother than it could be. I now know that I am not the lone passenger on this boat through life. I'm not the only one using your music to calm the waters.
Finally, I may not have been there from the beginning, but please know I will be there, standing with you, till the end.
.:: stay street - stay unlit - and never stay low ::.
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