Still Dark After All These Years
They said we would grow out of it. They said we would mellow with time. We stayed witchy, stayed strange, stayed ourselves, and still found beauty in the night.
Clothing, makeup, hair, comfort, confidence, body changes, health, accessibility, scene memory, budget, returning to goth after years away, dressing dramatically without apologizing, and proving that subculture does not expire.
They said we would grow out of it. They said we would mellow with time. We stayed witchy, stayed strange, stayed ourselves, and still found beauty in the night.