Layla

when all this is done, will you think more of me? 23

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After years of pseudonyms, I'm restarting on Tumblr under my real name to promote my music and writing ! I make alternative music inspired by mythology, poetry, and coming of age as a yearning girl. My first song 'Metamorphoses' is out now and I'd love if you gave it a listen <333

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waiting 1.5 hours for a girl is almost worse than some guy from tinder standing me up... maybe it's cause I'm hotter. I need to stop talking to people forever

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Blair Waldorf if she was in credit card debt

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I need romance this is all so awful

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having friends is so exhausting it's like having a worm in my brain

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I broke my bones to make this EP. It's all I have right now, besides a tendril of hope that I make it out of my version of the woods.

I'm not trying to guilt trip. I'm just being honest that these are my pretty songs and I'm not sure when I'll be able to make more, if I'll get out of what I'm in now. I love love love you all

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when will I be free of my father? when does my star shine? it happens right? it happens right?

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"It starts and ends in the woods." These were the words that kept us honest to each other, and dishonest with everyone else. For a while these words kept us close. They kept something else closer. In our archaic amusements, we forgot one crucial detail; the woods are always watching. 

It starts and ends in the woods. Until something comes back to life. I can play good, but I can’t play God. That was always her thing. And now it’s all she talks about. I thought she was my other half. But I have other mouths to feed, and if I don’t speak now, she’s going to shut them all up.  Which is why I have to speak now. I don’t know the right words to say. I’m not sure they exist. So take this with a grain of salt and throw it over your shoulder. This isn’t gospel. This isn’t a confession. This is just the story so far. 

"The Story So Far" EP Trailer. Layla Knowles, 2023

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I'm not sure if I'm ahead of my time or if that's how I console myself. but I know a few things. I know that everyone deserves consolation, however empty. and I know that what I am has never been for and won't be for a while, because I connect to nothing else here. fragments of things but nothing ever wholly at all

[escuerzoresucitado]

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this is so metamorphoses

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They say if you see something

Say something

But if you see us 

Just keep wondering

Wanna how that girl went missing

Continue your careless hissing

Because that’s the thing with rumors

They’re a harmless thing to humor

Until you let them leave your room

Cause the worst rumors are true

And we’re always on the move

We do this thing year after year

We host it when the coast is clear

And when we’ve faced all of our fears

We agree nothing to see here

We wouldn’t call ourselves a clique

We’re not the type that people pick

There’s only one requirement

Whatever we do, we get away with it

When you run with the wolves

You may convulse 

It’s not your conscience 

It’s your pulse

Some call it the Holy Spirit

Say to yield soon as you hear it

But Heaven is a place on earth

And everyone deserves rebirth

If you wanna know your worth

Tie your heartstrings at the hearth

We’re handsome and selfish 

Don’t keep our hands to ourself

If you think you have plans to sell this

Then we will plant our evidence

We’re each other’s alibi

We were goin on a drive

we saw you by the dead guy’s

With a metal surprise

We do this thing year after year

We host it when the coast is clear

If you see us don’t face your fears

There’s nothing to see here

We wouldn’t call ourselves a clique

We’re not the type that people pick

You wanna join us, just know this

Whatever we do, we get away with it

You have to understand

None of this is planned

We give the area a scan

And do whatever we can

We do it for fun

Doesn’t everyone

If you can’t ride with us

You better run

'year after year', original song coming v soon mwah

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fuck Spotify. they're paying small artists like me even less. I got excited to make $3 in 3 months, and now they're taking away that ability for small ass artists so that big label artists can get more money they don't need. I'm so pissed. I need to afford ramen, they'll be okay without another Gucci bag

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sorry can't come over tonight I'm busy saving another low res photo of a deer in the woods on fifteen different Pinterest boards

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Tolstoy didn't understand women. He didn't understand socialism. But he understood SEX

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just a girl who wants to go home even when she's home

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Fannibals say Will was always sinister and then the damning evidence is that he's been sassy sometimes... like the beauty of a corruption arc is that he once had purity, I think the idea of him initially being corrupted is boring !!

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only one in the zoom call bopping my bussy (wearing a halloween costume on halloween)