I would like to submit a song written by a man named Richey James Edwards,
who was suffering from anorexia at the time of its creation.
"4st. 7lbs"
Days since I last pissed · cheeks sunken and despaired · so gorgeous sunk to
six stone · lose my only remaining home · see my third rib appear · a week
later all my flesh disappear · stretching taut, cling-film on bone · I'm
getting better · Karen says I've reached my target weight · Kate and Emma
and Kristin know it's fake · problem is diet's not a big enough word · I
wanna be so skinny that I rot from view · I want to walk in the snow · and
not leave a footprint · I want to walk in the snow · and not soil its purity
· stomach collapsed at five · lift up my skirt my sex is gone · naked and
lovely and 5st. 2 · may I bud and never flower · my vision's getting blurred
· but I can see my rib's and I feel fine · my hands are trembling stalks ·
and I can feel my breasts are sinking · mother tries to choke me with roast
beef · and sits savouring her sole Ryvitta · that's the way your built my
father said · but I can change, my cocoon shedding · I want to walk in the
snow · and not leave a footprint · I want to walk in the snow · and not soil
its purity · Kate and Kristin and Kit Kat · all things I like looking at ·
too weak to fuss, too weak to die · choice is skeletal in everybody's life ·
I choose, my choice, I starve to frenzy · hunger soon passes and sickness
soon tires · legs bend, stockinged I am Twiggy · and I don't mind the horror
that surrounds me · self-worth scatters, self esteem's a bore · I long since
moved to a higher plateau · this discipline's so rare so please applaud ·
just look at the fat scum who pamper me so · yeh 4st. 7, an epilogue of
youth · such beautiful dignity in self-abuse · I've finally come to
understand life · through staring blankly at my navel.
From WM: FYI, st. means stone, the English unit for weight.
The author of this song has been missing for years. If you'd like to contact the distributor, it is www.sony.com
I'd like to thank the gentleman who so graciously submitted it.
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