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Break Like Glass

from 21 by Hannah Wilson-Black

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I had this idea when I was younger that smart women can only end up with equally smart emotionally unavailable assholes (I blame Pride and Prejudice. I love you Jane Austen, but you did me dirty with that one). I also blame Sherlock and just about every romcom from the early 2000s. This song is my refutation of that

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Up late again on my starter phone
Learning what it’s like to never be alone
I found someone just like me
Smart and mean when he wants to be
I can argue with him all night long
I can’t sleep until I prove him wrong
And baby thats the kind of high
That I came back to every night

It’s a game of give and take
Fun until my heart starts breaking
It’s a game that never lasts
We pose like diamonds
’Til we break like glass

I hate his sharpness and his lies
But my friends say that feeling’s butterflies
Wanna be strong so I hold it in
With my feelings bottled up like him
And when he shows me where he bleeds
I laugh at him like he laughed at me
An amateur manipulator
They say I’ll hate him first and love him later


It’s a game of give and take
Fun until my heart starts breaking
It’s a game that never lasts
We pose like diamonds
’Til we break like glass

And I won’t say it’s easy
Waiting for the love you know you need
But when this one says he’s only teasing
I believe him
And I can see it


All the years I fought with him
Thinking it’d turn to devotion
It’s a game of hot and cold
We pose like diamonds
But it gets so old

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from 21, released January 5, 2022
Credits to Soleil Engin for providing the electric guitar you hear at the end! Thanks Soleil!!!

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Hannah Wilson-Black Washington, D.C.

Originally from northern Virginia, Hannah is a third-year student at the University of Chicago, where she studies Creative Writing and Environmental/Urban Studies. In her spare time Hannah is a singer-songwriter, both as a solo artist and as a member of Chicago-based punk pop band Puddlejumper ... more

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