#My Body Is a Cage

[cutelilrat]

when i try putting on makeup and doing my hair so i can look pretty but remember i’ll still look ugly no matter what i do

[isintensechaos]

Pieces of me

I look at myself and I do not recognize what I see

I feel weak

I feel stuck

There's no heat

I can hear my heartbeat

But I cannot feel

I am not alive

I claim defeat

[leavemeslowly]

She said she was going insane again. I sometimes feel that too. Not enough to take the same step as she did but enough to fall deeply into myself. Get drunk on my own thoughts and drown in them without looking for a way out. I am full of sorrow and bitterness for no good reason. How long before anyone else notices? I am too far gone now. They will see it anyway and spit on me. Full of hatred and misunderstanding. I am blinded by it. Not seeing an escape, if there is any at all. My self is not mine, I am not me. I am a memory.

[finalgirlfall]

Then they ask the question: Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten? I try to answer, but the correct answer is always anumerical. Sensation is the enemy of quantification. There is no machine, yet, to which a nervous system can submit sensation to be transformed into a sufficiently descriptive measurement.

— The Undying, Anne Boyer

[macsoul]

my body is a cage

Eu tô cansada, sinto como se não conseguisse parar de correr em círculos, um hamster em uma gaiola, minha vida se esvai como areia em minhas mãos, um eco em meu coração diz pra eu não perder a esperança, em minha mente eu sei que essa tristeza é só o velho pensamento de sempre, mas sinto como se tivesse perdendo algo importante conforme cada dia se finda, minha vida, não sinto vivê-la como deveria e queria, meu pai um idiota qualquer sempre dizia que há muito lá fora pra se ver, cada dia que você ousar sair, mas eu não consigo sair de mim.

Minha mente é minha prisão, a razão de me sentir presa e sufocando, meu corpo é minha gaiola e o medo as correntes que me mantém presa ao chão.

Paralisada.

Não consigo ver o mundo lá fora, pois estou perdida dentro de mim, quase sempre, sem saber como sair.

[thehozierpoll]

Shine On You Crazy Diamond My

Body is a Cage

[figureskatingcostumes]

Annabelle Morozov and Andrei Bagin's rhythm dance costumes at the 2021 Russian Test Skates and 2021 Internationaux de France. They skated to My Body Is a Cage by Peter Gabriel and Boom Boom Pow by the Black Eyed Peas.

(Sources: 1, 2 and 3)

[deveril]

Set my spirit free

Set my body free

[frostedlemonwriter]

How about some writing music this morning?

[iamfullofdiseases]

My body is a cage that keeps me from dancing with the one I love, but my mind holds the key

[strangenewwords]

peter gabriel - my body is a cage

[leavemeslowly]

My mind is like: oh, you feel good exercising? your thoughts stop spiralling when you are writing or go running? yes? then you can’t do it anymore. you have to stay miserable. your body is not made to make you feel good.

[finalgirlfall]

If symptoms are circulated long enough, a set of discomforts might be allowed the mercy of a name: a disease, a syndrome, a sensitivity, a search term. Sometimes that is cure enough—as if to appellate is to make okay. Sometimes to give a person a word to call their suffering is the only treatment for it.

— The Undying, Anne Boyer

[average-vulva-enjoyer]

I just noticed that they used the same song ('My Body Is A Cage') in the series 'The Good Doctor' (S05 E08 'Rebellion') and in "House M.D"(S07 E16 'Out Of The Chute'), the song itself fits perfectly with the difficult situations and internal dilemmas that Shaun and Gregory are dealing with. I just think it's cool that they used the song again in a similar context.

[thehozierpoll]

My Body is a Cage

Toxic

[figureskatingcostumes]

Annabelle Morozov and Andrei Bagin's rhythm dance costumes at the 2022 Russian Championships. They skated to My Body Is a Cage by Peter Gabriel and Boom Boom Pow by the Black Eyed Peas.

(Sources: 1 and 2)