That winter I was on the bus by 4:30 every morning and almost always listening to Pulp’s Intro: The Gift Recordings. Many of those songs felt as if Jarvis Cocker was singing about me.
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“Space” 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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“Inside Susan” was about spending a lot of time looking at the world through bus windows.
~The girl in “Stacks” had a crocheted halter top as I did.
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In “Sheffield: Sex City” the line “the tobacconist caught fire” was about
how many cigarettes I smoked in those days.
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“Razzmatazz” was about my sister and me and how it had once been
our summer anthem. ~
“59 Lyndhurst Grove” 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).