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The Modern Leper
For the person who stayed anyway 🫶
Who it's for
Scott Hutchison sings about his depression and his amazement that someone stuck by him through it.
Unworthy and surprised to be loved→Accepting care
Feelings it meets
What it is
"The Modern Leper" is the opening track of Frightened Rabbit's second album, The Midnight Organ Fight. The song uses leprosy as a metaphor for feeling broken and unable to function. Its narrator is withdrawn and depressed, and is confused and moved when a former partner comes back to help him.
Where to find it
All major streaming services.
Before you start
Heads up: Explicit language and depression.
Age: Suggested 16+
I felt a funeral in my brain, And mourners, to and fro, Kept treading, treading, till it seemed That sense was breaking through.Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series
