I FUCKING LOVE WILL WOOD

the thing that really makes me enjoy his music soso much I think is the way he writes lyrics. They are on the more abstract and complex side, but they are easy to decipher, but even such efforts aren't really necessary to connect with on a deeper level. Like, I didn't start listening to him, thinking "Waow, it's going to be real fun to decode his lyrics" I started, because even just hearing them in the background made me feel SO many things.

I mean the reason I felt so much was because of my mental state at the time, I "have" BPD, and I was very much going thru it at the time. And WW talks about bpd and mental illness quite often in his music (quite often lmao, it's woven into all of his current discography) this discussion about mental illness was so fresh for me at the time, I've never felt that seen before, his music felt like the way I thought, the way I functioned. It seemed like it was the only piece of art that knew me, that reached out and told me "your thoughts and emotions have been felt almost the same way by another person" with no extra things added on, just the emotional experience that seemed to form the music itself. It was such an immense form of comfort to me, before my diagnosis, to know that I'm not the only one who's brain does these things that are so awful, yet familliar and routine-like.

Even now, that I'm mostly allright in the head, I very much appreciate his music, and the thoughts, ideas and philosophy in it. They were among the things that made me get better, though the main thing that did if for me was DBT (even if it's not perfect, I should write about that, but it'll mostly just be "marsha, thankk you for the dialectics, but i need you to leave" lol) so yeah. Will Wood good.

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