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dead-end financial situation’. As you listen to the ship and your song has been the driving force in a lot of long-term relationships and, I think, a
song, which also features Spencer Charnas of behind that. I was just stuck in this relationship lot of times you just get blindsided right when
Ice Nine Kills, you can feel that sense of suffo- with someone that I just didn’t like. We didn’t get you find someone that you love or that you like,
cation and anguish. Lee sings of ‘never getting along and she was just suffocating me and it and you look past a lot of things that maybe,
out, never getting out of here’ and waking up was just not healthy, and your song kind of long-term, you should have looked at, and
‘choking with a pillow on your face’. spoke to me in that way.’ It’s cool to see it in real should have been like, ‘Oh OK, maybe I should
Lee says, “It’s wild getting to play these life.” have asked that question before,’ or ‘Maybe I
songs live and getting to do this. It’s been cool, We ask why he thinks people get into rela- shouldn’t have ignored it the way that I did’.
because we have people come up every single tionships with other people and then it doesn’t Does he think people get into relationships
night and be like… I had this, literally, happen to work out, or they discover traits about them that too quickly? Should people get to know each
me the other day… This guy came up and said they don’t like. Is it just life? other a bit more first before starting a relation-
to me, ‘I just got out of a ten-year-old relation- “I think it is,” Lee says. “I, myself, have been ship?

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