PHIE - Monsters

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Monsters is one of the most vulnerable songs I've ever written. I was hesitant to share this part of myself, but perhaps it's a song someone needs to hear, just as I needed to write it. Sex is a tricky thing, convoluted by emotion and lust. It's something we learn to navigate, and typically at a young age where perhaps we don't have a good sense of boundaries or self-worth. Perhaps you said yes when you weren't ready. Perhaps you said no, or nothing at all. Maybe it was an act of self-destruction. Maybe the relationship was complicated. Maybe what happened was black and white, or maybe it was more obscure. Maybe there was blame, or maybe there wasn't-- there doesn't always have to be. Regardless, you get to feel however you feel. This song is how I feel, released from my body and relinquished to my art.

This is the first single of an album recorded at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals. Thank you to Steve Knight for a being a huge part of this whole project as a producer and collaborator. Thank you to Rodney Hall of believing in my artistry and recording this album. Thank you to Homefield Productions for filming and editing this music video, for your creative minds and the way you bring my ideas to the screen. Thank you to all my friends who were a part of the video, and to Amelia Jones for choreographing and dancing in the mosquito and thorn ridden woods at midnight. Thank you to all the talented musicians and engineers (Spencer Coats/Jon Bonus). Thank you to all the people that love and support me. Thank you to all the listeners.

lyrics:
you'll never be the reason or the excuse
i call it a lesson, 'cause i can stand on my own two feet
all gotta keep moving
but you think you know someone until you don't
and i know that you were young
and just doing what your daddy did
daddies be nice to your kids

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