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Keira Knightley as Anna Karenina

from make it be me by méabh stanford

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Now, just to get into a general background: over the pandemic summer, I decided to watch Keira Knightley’s entire filmography (I regret to inform you all that this task was never accomplished). She stars mainly in period pieces and I was enchanted by the way they took the mundane and inserted dramatics and pain and love into the story. I wanted to know what it would feel like to be one of those characters, who seem to live for each other, who abandon all reason in the name of love. Of course, it’s all unrealistic. But that doesn’t make it any less romantic or beautiful. And I wanted to capture that feeling.

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Keira Knightley as Anna Karenina
© 2021 méabh stanford
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Wheel out the backdrops
And the hopeless devotion
Bring out the cameras
And the unchecked emotion
Star-crossed lovers
No plan but all action
Who knew affairs could be so romantic?

Curse the screen for making me feel something I didn’t know I could feel
I now believe love has to be hard for it to be real
Unimaginable circumstances masked by pretty dresses
Until someone dies for me I can’t learn my lesson

Cos now I’ve learned to only want the loves that live for you
Would someone tell me that those romances were doomed?
I feel I could make pain disappear if I keep believing
Who’s gonna tell me they’re called tragedies for a reason?

Take out the reality
And any sense
Replace it with pride
And deceptive innocence
Mutual pining
And devastation
A tragic opportunity calls to me like an invitation

Curse the screen for making me feel something I didn’t know I could feel
I now believe love has to be hard for it to be real
Undesirable circumstances masked by pretty dresses
Until someone dies for me I can’t learn my lesson


Cos now I’ve learned to only want the loves that live for you
Would someone tell me that those romances were doomed?
I feel I could make pain disappear if I keep believing
Who’s gonna tell me they’re called tragedies for a reason?

Meeting in secret in lantern light
Reading letters by candlelight
And beautiful gowns to be worn only that night
And putting so much in that you can’t put up a fight
Running from doubters and inner demons
Only having each other to believe in
And soon running from each other and with changing seasons
Only the thread remains that used to tie you at your seams
But there’s still the what-ifs and the fantasies
And the hopeless romantics who like tragedy
And there’s the high society gatherings
And the faith that someday someone will live for me

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from make it be me, released July 23, 2021

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méabh stanford Ocean City, New Jersey

Méabh Stanford is a 16 year old singer-songwriter from Ocean City, NJ. Drawing inspiration from literature and tying it to real-life experiences, her music reflects human interactions & the influence media has on them. Her EP, “make it be me” is filled with piercing lyrics written from the perspective of characters or the vantage point of an outsider swept into the deceptive magic of a universe. ... more

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