That winter I was on the bus by 4:30 every morning and almost always listening to Pulp鈥檚 Intro: The Gift Recordings. Many of those songs felt as if Jarvis Cocker was singing about me.
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鈥淪pace鈥 was about how the lights of my city before dawn made me feel as though I were travelling through outer space.
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鈥淚nside Susan鈥 was about spending a lot of time looking at the world through bus windows.
~The girl in 鈥淪tacks鈥 had a crocheted halter top as I did.
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In 鈥淪heffield: Sex City鈥 the line 鈥渢he tobacconist caught fire鈥 was about
how many cigarettes I smoked in those days.
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鈥淩azzmatazz鈥 was about my sister and me and how it had once been
our summer anthem. ~
鈥59 Lyndhurst Grove鈥 was about my last boyfriend.
Just not being around him anymore was enough to make me jump out of bed happy every day. That relationship had taught me that you need to learn how to leave people if you want to stay free, because no one is going to be the keeper of your freedom. You have to do that yourself.
Bio:
TANYA TOMASCH is a Canadian writer, musician, and translator who grew up in Austria and Czechia and now lives in Vancouver (Instagram: margarita.and.the.masters).