We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

about

Artwork by tendavillager.tumblr.com

Leelah Alcorn was a seventeen year old transgender female from Ohio, USA who took her life in December 2014. After living in confusion for fourteen years, when Leelah announced to her parents that she was transgender they rejected her, bullied her, told her it was a "phase", isolated her from the outside world and sent her to gender conversation therapists intent on turning her into something she was not meant to be. Even after her suicide, her parents continued to insult her memory by masking her choice to die as an "accident", referring to her by male pronouns and burying her in a suit under a gravestone that did not bare her chosen name.

Leelah's Tumblr schedule posts released a suicide note soon after explaining the ignorance and abrasiveness she had faced and begged for society to fix itself. This song is for her and for everyone else in similar situations. We cannot let this kind of thing continue to happen.

lyrics

This empties me out and leaves me cold
when murderers play the victim and walk free in the world.
What else can you be expected to want to do
when your blanket of safety is trying to suffocate you?

There’s more to humankind than what’s on our skin.
There’s forces colliding and merging in the soul within.
If you deny someone their peace of mind
you’ve started a war and you’re no ally of mine.

“Those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.”
You cannot change what is inside.

Please never listen to a word they say.
You are not their disapproval.

They tried to change her soul when she dug deep.
The price to pay for this broken heart is steep.
We cannot mourn and move on from this crime;

we have to stand up, fix society this time.

“Those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.”
You cannot change what is inside.

Please never listen to a word they say.
You are not their disapproval.
Please never listen to a word they say.
We are all beautiful.

credits

from Leelah (Single), released January 20, 2015

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Kryptik Metaphor England, UK

Big riffs and baritone choruses.

contact / help

Contact Kryptik Metaphor

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Kryptik Metaphor, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Beans joins the show to discuss his album release, "ZWAARD".

listen now