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Self-Help by Tomberlin

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Tomberlin

Self-Help

Release date: 9th August 2018

From At Weddings
Track 8
3:18
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About This Track

'Self-Help' by Tomberlin is an alternative track from the album 'At Weddings' (2018). The lyrics are darkly comic and bleak, turning self-help language into something grimly literal. They describe injury and isolation, with the speaker treating a mundane household moment as a test of coping methods, before addressing a parent figure directly. The chorus or refrain is not quoted here, but the song’s mood arrives fast, with the quoted feeling of “I think I’m fine” landing as a brittle act of reassurance.

"Self-Help" is a track by Tomberlin, from the album At Weddings, released 9th August 2018. The track is 3:18 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about Tomberlin.

About the Artist

Tomberlin

Tomberlin

Lyrics

Self-Help

Electrocuted in the bathtub
Yellow, black my bruises become
The heart is a heavy coffin
Where I lay down everyone I love

I used the self-help book to kill a fly
I think it worked, Mom, I think I'm fine
Well, pray for my fifth of a century, the start of the beginning
The light in my eyes, not the tears that fall out

Well, you have a soft sort of power
But you know I'm not your napkin
This time, this time, this time, this time
Well, you have a soft sort of power
But you know I'm not your napkin
This time, this time, this time

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Track details

From At Weddings

3:182018
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Album
At Weddings
At Weddings
Tomberlin
10th August 2018
Track number
8
Release year
2018
  1. 1Any Other Way
    3:23
  2. 2Untitled 1
    4:51
  3. 3Tornado
    3:36
  4. 4You Are Here
    3:45

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    • Credits

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    Writer
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    Producer
    Owen Pallett
    Guitar
    Owen Pallett, Tomberlin
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    Paul Gold
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