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Fine on my Own

from 17​-​24 by bess hepner

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Fine On My Own
Age 20
I think everyone deals with the struggle of being put in boxes we didn’t choose to be in. This song is about that, as well as the anxiety of the future. It is about growing older and not knowing what’s in store, while trying constantly to shake off the expectations others put on you and holding onto your independence. The guitar in this song is inspired by a song I wrote with the band Who'da Funk It? Once the band dispersed I wanted to reincorporate this staccato guitar line into my own work.

Art: a collage of journal entries and song lyrics collected throughout the 7 years on feeling empowered and independent.

lyrics

Chorus:
Because you told me to, and I listened to you
Because you told me to, now I won’t listen
Don’t want you to save me, don’t want you to change me
I’ve been doing just fine on my own, I’ve been doing just fine on my own
Don’t want you to save me, don’t want you to change me
Make up your mind so I can make up mine

Stands with two feet ready to leap, ready to run away
Her knitted shoulders carry boulders, she grows older every day
If I swim will I float, if I float will I float away?
Will I wash in the waves and learn to behave or will I push away?

Chorus

They didn’t tell me that I was the girl of a thousand identities
And they didn’t tell me that I would be known by each one of these, of these
Can I please just be me, oh please just be me
And not all the pieces that they put on me, no all the pieces that they put on me

Don’t want you to save me, don’t want you to change me
Cuz I’ve been doing that, yes I’ve been doing that

credits

from 17​-​24, released April 26, 2019
Album was recorded in 2019 by bess hepner at Rolling Crone Records (engineered by Doug Indrick and produced by Erika Lundahl) (rollingcronerecords.com) in Seattle. Mastered by Steve Turnidge at Ultraviolet Studios (www.arsdivina.com) in Seattle.

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