Adrianne Lenker - Everything is fleeting and passing and impermanen

Everything is fleeting and passing and impermanent in life. Relationships, people, our finite physical forms... We let go of our childhoods, we let go of different parts of our body, we lose elasticity in our skin, and we lose hair and we lose teeth.

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Rettig, James. "Adrianne Lenker Is Trying To Make Sense Of It All." Stereogum, 25 Sept. 2018.

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