Porch Cat - Who I Am

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Late at night
I get lonely
I think no one knows me
For who I am

Cause they just might
Decide they hate me
Oh please validate me
For who I am

Every guy
I’ve ever dated
Must have hated
That I lied

I was scared
I’d been rejected
Felt unprotected
In this world

I had pride
And it was punished
It felt so loveless
To do to a child

And people say
That I inspired them
But I felt like I was hiding
Myself away

I have lied
To myself for so long
Wrote so many bad songs
To fix who I am

Who I am
Who I am
Who I am
Who I am

Late at night
I get lonely
I think no one can know me
The way you can

Release Date: November 22, 2018

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Porch Cat is a dream-pop, punk-based band from Bellingham, Washington. Most of the information regarding the band is on their Facebook page, and their Bandcamp. The band is led by Chan Barraza Benicki, a nonbinary lesbian who struggles with several medical conditions. Chan details the purpose and information on the band on their Facebook page, under their about, titled “Our Story”.

Porch Cat is:
Porch Cat is the musical project of singer-songwriter, Chan Barraza. Through uptempo punk songs, sludgy ballads, and pop hooks, Porch Cat writes about queer identity, pain and chronic illness, abuse and assault, colonization and racism – ultimately returning to themes of love and empowerment.
As a queer, nonbinary, disabled and chronically ill Latina, Porch Cat strives to push the boundaries of representation in music, as well as fight for feminism, queer rights, disability rights, and against racism.
Porch Cat originally began as an acoustic singer-songwriter project by Chan Barraza in 2011 in Bellingham, WA. Benicki began to learn guitar at age 12, and soon combined their love for writing poetry and singing into writing original songs. Throughout their life, Barraza explored theatre, photography, and visual arts, but it wasn’t until they were in college that they played music as part of a band. Since then, Porch Cat has transformed from an acoustic, folk sound, to an electric band influenced by Barraza’s love of punk, indie, and alternative rock. Barraza lives with chronic illness, including Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Narcolepsy with Cataplexy, PTSD, and PMDD.