Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsBUQtBOmzU

London is Lonely may not have the most groundbreaking lyrics you've ever heard, but I've been listening to it today, feeling really melancholic.

I can't stop thinking about the footage from that filthy protest. I feel like an era ended yesterday, at least for me personally. To me, London has been the epitome of safety. And - prepare for irony - seeing all those outsiders literally piss all over my neighborhood, a 15-minute walk from where I used to live, with me across the continent (and continent, unlike them!), unable to do anything has really got me down.

I feel like someone trashed my house while I was away.

London has lots of flaws, and even this song written by a then-freshly-arrived Holly Humberstone captures some of them with ease. But for many people across Europe, London is the place they moved to in search of safety and acceptance. For many of us it was the place we went to be left alone and get lost in that way too big crowd.

So I'll allow myself to misappropriate the line "Something's different when you leave my place". On some level this city will never be the same again.

I don't know. Maybe I'm being overdramatic, but what I do know is I saw a post today of someone who took it upon themselves to scrub fascist stickers off lamp posts and bus stops in Waterloo. And I have that same urge today and I fucking swear if I had the money I'd board a flight right fucking now.