Selby Wall ♡ Ethel Cain lyrics 

😨 How in the world did this song get mixed into my worship music playlist…. literally Aramaic pray/music playlist.. I like how you turned your honesty into a dark song though. Its like a cursed Taylor Swift song.

sanest ethel cain song

The raw internal rage and pain of women in abusive relationships romanticizing an escape. Amazing.

how it feels turning nineteen

This is like preacher’s daughter if Ethel was the one that won. It’s like if Ethel went down a different “road” and ended up fighting back.

predicted salt burn

this song should’ve been in the barbie movie

weirdly comforting. Those type of songs that bleed the raw honest, ugly ugly truth. It's fucked, the images and events that she talks about in the song, but it's also shit that actually happens that lives inside you forever and just rots and ferments away. Makes me feel a mixture of calmness and bitterness.

Ethel Cain is an amazing storyteller.

A new genre of music. Crazy-bitch Folk music.

the most cathartic, weirdly comforting song ever

What's super insane is not just her amazing songrwiting, but all the countless women who are breaking down, agreeing, sympathizing, relating and reliving something quite similar upon hearing this for the first time. Absolutely haunting & beautiful in its honesty.

She is so unhinged in this song, it is raw, real, cathartic, spellbinding, freeing, hypnotic, trance-inducing, cynical, melancholic, and beautiful. Oh Ethel, how I love you.

this song hits harder when you've gone through anything like what she describes

I don’t have an original thought in my head. Love this song word for word.

Maybe I am morbid but the beauty of these brought me to tears working in a warehouse with a bunch of dudes working around me.

i relapsed like an hour ago and just saw this on my recommended and now im sitting here in tears shakily breathing with a straight face. ethel cain does things to me. ugh

I REALLY badly deeply and desperately need this in a female heavy metal version. I need it SCREAMED! I want vulnerable and vengeful.

I love this song. Not only is Ethel Cain and amazing story teller, I can relate to the things she says and feel her pain along with my own. Abusive relationships are terrible, and it takes a lot of strength and courage to get out of them. I understand her anger and pain by this, I too had to leave an abusive guy. This song makes me feel like I'm not alone, and I love it with a burning passion. She makes amazing music. This and Inbred are my favorite by her.

This is so profane and disturbing and I love it

This... literally describes perfectly my first relationship ever. I met a boy in school that I fell HARD in love with. I didn't know that I had feelings for him (and didn't understand how love felt) til he wanted to date me. He was the only person in my life who "accepted" me for who I was. Never judged me, liked everything I did, talked for hours about our life and interests. I, of course, dated him. But I didn't know who he truly was. He was a serial cheater who already had sex with a lot of girls - I knew he had already stayed with some, but I just was surprised for how he got so many girls in such a young age. He already cheated on me in just a few days of me dating him - but since I didn't have a brain, I just brushed it off and loved him as always. We went on a on-and-off relationship for some years. Til I was 17. I lost my virginity to him on his birthday - though he just broke up with one of his many side chicks. I didn't know that and I never knew her. I found it all later that he actually never ever liked me, and that he just wanted to take my virginity and my "innocence". He hated how I look, my body, my personality, my everything. I've never wanted to fucking kill somebody til that moment. I've never ever had to resist my urge to not decapitate his fucking head off and show it off to his mom and dad with pride. I wanted him to suffer forever for making me believe that we were happy together for 4 years, since I was just a fucking kid. Only God knows how my mind went during that time. I've never wanted to see someone die so desperately so badly in my entire life. But... of course I won't go to jail because of a guy like him. So I just told him to never ever see me again. It has been more than a year, I've discovered myself as a lesbian, moved out from his neighborhood and I still want him dead - even though I already moved on and shit. Personally I don't think I'm the right person for anyone. I'm way too awkward. But I've been pretty happy since I left him and my old home, and since I gave up on relationships. Selby Wall made me reminisce of those days. Crazy how it connects perfectly well with them. And how psychotic I am...

Has anyone else here watched Monster (2003)? That movie gave me a LOT of context for this song. Selby Wall-a real person. Not sure if she's still alive or not, but a person. I thought this song was about a place. Holy shit ;-; now, this could be about Selby Wall's relationship to Aileen Wuornos. Easily. I say "could," but it's almost for certain, if this song is about the real Wall. Damn I'm gonna be thinking about this for a long time

I've never related more to an artist. I've been through serious shit all my life. I feel like an alien most times. Most don't understand what it's like. Nor will they ever. When life has been beating you repeatedly since birth.

This chic is... omg. I love her. This song is a mindfuck. This is what an angel sounds like...when you break its halo over the edge of a barstool, cut it's pretty face then tear its wings off and throw it away. This song will fuckin haunt me until I cant sleep. I'll drink a little high proof, maybe get high and think about again to repeat the cycle. This song kills. The most beautiful composition and vocals I ever heard to lift me up, only to really understand / read the lyrics and free fall back down to become one with concrete.

the comments all like 'this is so disturbing' and it is but it's also so sweet and hopeful because she gets out

I sent this to my friend, she texted me saying she was crying listening to it because it just described her entire relationship. I said I know. Thats why i sent it. Just be aware, in the end of her story, he kills her." He wont leave her alone. She fled Texas to Florida. He still fucks with her phones, her laptops, any electronics, hes in her bank accounts, credit accounts, wrecked her credit score. And i wont even get into what hes done to me for just being her friend. Hes got a special hatred for me thats ruined my entire life. And he still wont stop. And hes untouchable. Nobody knows how to help. Every day is a struggle.

She’s an Aries so she understands the feminine rage we all connect with

"CURSED TAYLOR SWIFT SONG" 💀💀

Feels like an inverse of No Children by The Mountain Goats. Love it as much as I love that song.

THE FACT SHE REMOVED THIS FROM HER SOUNDCLOUD I- 😭😭 well at least it’s on RU-vid thank you for saving me lmao 🙏🏾

Love a happy ending.

I just discovered this artist, I've heard if her name never knowing what it was, but GODDAMNNN her songs are so fucking beautiful what a work of art..😖

My favorite song from mother♥️😌

“ god loves you but not enough to save you” happy pride month to anyone who was told by their family that they love you but hate your sins 🥹 you are seen

Ethel Cain will be my savior forever

Kurt Cobain would have liked this song. Just kind of a gut feeling

Such a good song

im like shes too perfect

Plot twist: Selby Wall is the name of Aileen Wuornos’ girlfriend in the movie Monster

Good freaking song

This is insane I love it

This is why I love Ethel

Damn these lyrics are sick.

Dear god...brilliant.

this song came to me at the right time. love it

Dedicated to my husband.

Jeez, this is heavy.

i need this to be in one of the ec trilogy albums or b-sides 😩

This is what it sounds like, when angels cry...

Funny how I stumbled uppon this song and Casings during my psychiatric ward trip.

these lyrics really hit me hard omg (coming from a gay man who’s been with bi guys in the closet)

lads be good to your partners other than that this is a great song

such a good song

lmao refreshing lyrics

i felt every word in my soul.. she has a way of making me feel sooo eard

i love this so much :(

This is legit one of her best work

finally someone gets it 😤

Litterally has the same cords as growing pains omg

this broke my heart 🥺

damn this is dark, but I dig this shit!

This song is amazing

wow what a song.

Who else sees a skull getting it's brains blown out in that blood stain? Or did I just fail that Rorschach test miserably?

the things we (women) do for love

6:02 why is this part super relaxing 😭😭😭

Gorgeous

This needs to be released

Luv you!

untouchable.

She's not singing she's crying her ass out so beautifully

I'm just here because this sounds good and calm:v I barely notice the lyrics while doing other stuff

love the background picture love the font

Bloody hell, she doesn't mince her words!

Holy shit that ruined me. So sad so beautiful so scary.

this song is so comforting i love screaming it at the top of my lungs on texas highways :)

Yes!

Really good

This so fire Sis 🔥 🔥🔥❤

Amazing and brutal

She ate

2:05 lyrics is so Oliver Quick😰

in love

i’m crying again

FUCKING. BAWLING, DAMMIT.

i listen to this every time i had my period

i love her i love her i love her

This song is scary as fuck. I really like jt

being a teenage girl and able to relate to this song is so beautiful.

this song is so epic

Ethel Cain, cozy st jean and Nicole Dollanganger are all comfort artists

Come to brazil and sing this song specifically

Man I feel this so heavy about this man I fell for

when it's not metal or hardcore lyrics like these sound so evil like damn i'm actually affected

...holy fuck. I kinda like it. Bit it kinda scares me. But I like it

we need more music like this

First time listening to this since a guy sweet talked me into giving myself to him and then threw me away like I'm nothing. God, I love you Hayden. I needed you tonight 💔

"Goobye Earl" for the new generation

Happy Pride, everybody!

If yall wanna experience what I experience and make this song hurt 200000 times more, this song was described as ethel as “a love song for selby wall” which references the life of serial killer Aileen Wuornos and her girlfriend Tyria Moore, who was replaced by a fictitious character named Selby Wall in the film ‘monster’(2003) Highly recommended watching that movie. Trigger warning tho. Heavy on the trigger warning. Especially if you’re queer and mentally ill