Cindy Lee – I Want You to Suffer

Cindy Lee (aka Pat Flegel, formerly of Women) shares another absolute stunner from the incredible forthcoming LP What's Tonight To Eternity, coming on Valentine's Day via Superior Viaduct / W.25TH. The achingly pretty and sad "I Want You to Suffer" is one of the eerier, more ominous tracks on the record, with that beautifully twinkly, timeless, wide-eyed melody that Cindy Lee does so well eventually disintegrating into an abrasive squall of noise. Flegel talks about the harrowing sentiment that inspired the track:

“'I Want You To Suffer' is about my feelings regarding being abused and wanting severe punishment and revenge. It is also a rumination on alienation and repression in the wake of authority figures telling you that you are insane for your entire adolescence, when you are truly just reacting to what is happening to you. As you grow older, you realize that the identity and stances that have been adopted remain part of the same poisonous framework that you had been trying to escape. In the end, all that is left is the aching desire to be loved and trusted, despite a string of failures on your part.”