Chords for When We Think Eating is Wrong... -- Garrett Russell of Silent Planet

My name is Garrett Russell and I'm from a [Dm] band called Silent Planet and you're listening to
[A] Hardsport. _
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_ [F] We're playing this song [Bb] on this tour that is more of a recent addition to our [Gm] set
purely because you know we try to stay involved with people on [B] social media and see what they're
saying and a lot of folks have been talking about a song on our record called Nervosa.
I had like [Dm] these words written from [Bbm] this therapy experience and [Bb] after listening to [E] the song enough
I realized that it evoked a lot of similar emotions.
Before doing this full-time I was a
therapist [Dm] for college students.
[A] One of the students who I met [Bbm] with during that time inspired me [Db] to
write down [A] some thoughts and some ideas because I [Bb] encountered sort of a whole new issue with the
psyche which [Gm] was a combination of self-harm and [Db] anorexia.
We uncovered a [F] lot going back to her
family [A] situation.
I was really horrified to see [Dm] how [F] in this person's life there [Dm] had been a
combination of sort of society pressure and who she thought [Dbm] God was and God [A] being a guy sort of
and whether [E] it was due to things she was [Bb] explicitly told or things that she sort of implicitly was
interfacing with, things that [Dm] were more or less suggested by her [A] culture.
She had sort of come to
this place where everything about [Dm] her body was very like displaced from her.
This could be my
bias but [D] I really felt like she [Dbm] felt like she was inhabiting this body that was flawed because
she was a woman, that was flawed because she [G] wasn't a billboard looking [Bb]
photoshopped female
and because [A] she wanted to take back [E] the control in her life that had [A] been stripped from her in
various ways [F] through abusive [E] relationships.
As I [A] started working with her I started having
these kind of [Dm] oh shit moments where I was like I think that like I've dated someone in her situation
before and I started to realize how [Db] much I'd been blind to, not like [A] willingly, I think
maybe I'm trying to make [E] myself feel good.
I like to think that I would care [Bb] enough to actually
notice and to speak into that but that I'd been blind to it because it hadn't been my experience
and I think we're naturally, [Dm] I don't know if I'd say [A] narcissistic, but we're kind of creatures of
[Dbm] habit and of tunnel vision and [A] none of that that she'd gone through had been anything like my
[Bb] experience, you know, being this like athletic male guy who can eat or not, it doesn't really matter.
I feel like I've always been in a place where people have just sort of celebrated me regardless
of if I was in control of things or not.
In that way I've been privileged, you know, and because
of that I [A] think I've been blind to this [D] thing that happens.
[Db] Once things are humanized I think for [Dm] most
people things have to [E] change.
That's not for everybody but I [Bb] think that most of us have that
degree of empathy [A] that like at least our disposition will change and so with this young lady
[Bbm] it changed everything.
That like eating [Db] disorders and self-harm no [A] longer seem to be like, yeah,
that's another [Bb] thing but that became the thing for me and probably the [Gm] most of all the songs
on the record [D] that I really dug [A] in [F] to that.
But anyways, in the world of therapy like you [A] give
to this person and then you don't see them anymore and so I hadn't seen this young lady
but I had [F] these kind of collections of things I've written and I had this music so we really [Dm] threw
ourselves into that song Luvosa and I'm [Bbm] kind of convinced it's part of the reason why people are
[A] connecting with this song and [E] because self-harm [Dm] and eating [Bb] disorders affect so many people.
When I tell people on stage what that song Luvosa is about more people come up to me about that
than probably anything else.
It's kind of neck and neck with panic [Dm] group.
People come up to me
who have served in the [A] military and people come up to me who have cuts on their arms or
who have gone through eating disorders.
[D] We've made it possible for people to be at odds with food,
like [A] enemies with food and I think that [Db] food in my faith of Christianity, food is that point
at which [Bb] _ the whole faith comes out [Gm] of.
The Christ that I follow [A] established [Dm] the church and everything
within like take my body, take my blood [A] and made things so physical and [Am] made it a faith [Dm] where we
can connect with food and we can worship with how we eat [Bb] and I'm convinced [E] that there's something
very evil that makes somebody believe like your [Bb] eating is wrong.
I like to tell people at shows
like no your eating can be worship.
You're eating and choosing to eat like you're [Dm] joining the
tradition of all humans who have gone [A] before you and saying like I need this and no matter how like
rich or how cool or whatever I am we [Bb] all need sustenance and that's good.
That's my encounter
with eating disorders and self-harm.
It's a little bit personal and a lot
loving someone watching them go through [Gm] that.
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