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This Constant Distraction

from life by Madison Turner

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It seems that no matter what I do in this life,
people will always judge me for whether they think
I'm a boy or a girl.

They don't listen to what I say or
the music that I play
but they look at me as though they don't
even know what to do with me

it's this constant distraction in which I could
do the same thing as a cisgender person but
my content is ignored because the surface is
continually examined under a microscope
and with a gavel and justified with a long list of slurs
that belong in a barrel at the bottom of the ocean

Well
I'm sorry to say, but FUCK YOU
I'm gonna keep showing you
All that I can, All that I can do

and
I'm sorry to say, but FUCK YOU
And I'm not really sorry too
Cause you're a piece of shit and I'm fucking awesome
and even though it's difficult to realize that sometimes
and even though when realized it can be difficult to overcome

I don't have time to be brought down by some ignorant scumbag
piece of shit who can only spew transphobic and cissexist bile
from their

mouth-hole-area instead of injecting
information and empathy into their brain-skull-area
and don't have any realization that they have this privilege

this powerful privilege to make these decisions without any
care in the world whether or not someone else's existance
is flat-out denied

Well
I'm sorry to say, but FUCK YOU
I'm gonna keep showing you
All that I can, All that I can do

and
I'm sorry to say, but FUCK YOU
And I'm not really sorry too
Cause some of the shit that you say is just fucking awful
like this youtube comment on a music video that I released in
this other band years back

in which this person says verbatim
"Good band. Sucks the singer sucks
as both a man and a woman."
and it's like

'guess what,' you don't have to like the way I
say words because not everyone will and,
I mean, this song probably sucks too and who cares,

but to say some bigoted
shit because your cisgender ass thinks this is an acceptable
blow when it very clearly isn't is totally fucked.

Or like the time that a former co-worker
told me on the internet
"Matt, you're not a woman." I mean,
that's totally fucked up to think
and is even more fucked up to say,
and it's not even my legal name anymore anyways,

but that doesn't matter,
because you don't say that shit to
a transgender person.
i know you're sitting at your computer with
a veil of fucking anonymity and it
makes you feel like a powerful cisgender fuck,
but you're really just a shitty cisgender fuck.

the list of things that shitty people
say to me on the internet, behind my back,
and to my face goes on and on and on
and it's about time for that to fucking change

I'm sorry to say, but FUCK YOU
I'm gonna keep showing you
All that I can, All that I can do

and
I'm sorry to say, but FUCK YOU
and I'm not really sorry too
not sorry not sorry not sorry not sorry

So
I'll just fucking say, FUCK YOU
And fuck your attitude
Fuck your microscope, fuck your gavel, fuck your slurs,
and, uh, fuck you, you know?

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from life, released October 23, 2013

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Madison Turner Richmond, Virginia

Somewhere between pop punk and alternative rock and folk, sometimes with a full band and sometimes alone, always loud.

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