i'm the girl you've been thinking about
the one thing you can't live without
i'm the girl you've been waiting for
i'll have you down on your knees
i'll have you begging for more

you probably thought i wouldn't get this far
you thought i'd end up in the back of a car
you probably thought that i'd never escape
i'd be a rat in a cage
i'd be a slave to this place

you don't know how hard i fought to survive!
waking up alone when i was left to die
you don't know about this life i've lived
all these roads i've walked
all these tears i've bled

so how can this be?
you're praying to me
there's a look in your eyes, i know just what that means

i can be, i can be your everything

I CAN BE YOUR WHORE!
i am the dirt you created
i am your sinner, i am your whore
but let me tell you something, baby
you love me for everything you hate me for

i'm the one that you need and fear
now that you're hooked it's all becoming clear
that all your judgments that you placed on me
was a reflection of discovery
so maybe next time when you cast your stones
from the shadows of the dark unknown
you will crawl up from your hiding place
take a look in the mirror
see the truth in your face!

so how can this be?
you're praying to me
there's a look in your eyes, i know just what that means

i can be, i can be your everything

I CAN BE YOUR WHORE!
i am the dirt you created
i am your sinner, i am your whore
but let me tell you something, baby
you love me for everything you hate me for

i am the dirt you created
i am your sinner, i am your whore
but let me tell you something, baby
you love me, you want me, you need me!

I CAN BE YOUR WHORE!
i am the dirt you created
i am your sinner, i am your whore
but let me tell you something, baby
you love me for everything you hate me for

I CAN BE YOUR WHORE
I CAN BE YOUR WHORE
I CAN BE YOUR WHORE
but let me tell you something, baby
you love me for everything you hate me for

you love me for everything you hate me for
~In This Moment, 'Whore'

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I've been having a bad go of things with my PTSD lately, and when this song came on in the car with CassioBunny it really hit home. I've loved this song for a long time - in fact, I think I've done art related to it before - but I really wanted to combine it with the image here to impress a sense of separation on myself. I am not who I was. I can protect myself from the past inside me. I don't have to be what I was told I had no choice but to become. The past is never really gone, but I can minimize its ability to touch my future. I can be safe.

Vent art, obviously.

Farore past/present/future and art by me