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Cool & Pretty

by mothpuppy

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1.
i won't see you in forever and i'm dying to tell you just how i feel because i'll be fine tomorrow but today counts for everything and nothing seems real let's spend $5 and go to the park it's such a nice day outside we'll count all the centipedes and dogs that pass us by all my songs are just letters and i hope they reach you someday let's spend $5 and go to the park it's such a nice day outside we'll count all the centipedes and dogs that pass us by
2.
tom told me he liked a woman with meat on her bones i think he was talking about me but i don't really know tom told me he liked a woman with meat on her bones i know he was talking about me but i was 11 years old why can't i take my shirt off on the basketball court? i wanna run around in big mesh shorts what is it about my body that makes my head hurt? my hips are wider than my waist, my hips are wider than my waist i threw some rocks in the river they meant nothing to me then he took a quick video he's probably deleted since i won't ever see him again but i remember what he said yeah i think about that in mysterious ways i spend the time trying to know what to say i lay in bed and waste half the day he told me i was cool and pretty he told me i was cool and pretty he told me i was cool and pretty anything else am i anything else am i anything else am i anything else am i anything? am i anything else am i anything else am i anything else tom told me he liked a woman tom told me he liked a woman tom told me he liked a woman but what did he know? tom told me he liked a woman tom told me he liked a woman tom told me he liked a woman but what did he know?
3.
Abbreviation 02:03
we feel ghosts when we're alone and i am a ghost in this home i'm too small to hold my own and you're towering towering over me i'm a small and unversed thing and you are the gas that makes the birds sing and i'm falling fast asleep and what does it mean to believe in me you're always some abbreviation of a whole thing i know you're hurting but we're skirting aroooooooooooouuunnnd the conversation
4.
Flea 02:18
why'd you kill me? my body was perfect free of all defects i latched on to you what's my job here? i hatched from a pearl carried up from a draft onto your windowsill what's the deal here? you were my blood meal a lukewarm human moving thru the house and why'd you stop me? i could've made hundreds no i could've made thousands no i could've made millions why'd you drown me? light a tiny buoyant candle let it float in the bathtub my family here with me what's the point of looking back at some things? i was born on a tuesday and i died the next week full of blood i stuck to your fingers when you think of this small death i hope you're afraid to speak and i loved you my one and only blood meal i hid in your leg hairs and you disappointed me
5.
Talk to Sue 02:52
Buster we got you from a pet shop of questionable morals we couldn't quite fathom the horrors you'd seen missing three fourths of your tail they gave you to us for free Buster we couldn't settle on a new name so we kept the one you came with but never think of those first eight months of your life as totally aimless because now we talked with Sue and we're glad to have you you're glad to have us too Buster i was born to praise your name never go away just stay right here there's no rhyme structure good enough for you so i won't even try if there's nothing that you wanna do for the rest of your life well that's fine, that's fine
6.
Follow Thru 03:44
oh make it easy i pray to you god bless this mess that has followed thru your mom wrote a poem to save her life there was nothing she could do she turned the lights out inside when did i start staring in the mirror at night wondering what i look like? i will fall whenever you want me to hit the ground no honey those men are too big and scary and if you were taken away i don't know what i'd do no sweetie those boys are to rough and impatient they know not what they do it's in their nature to hurt you it's best if you stay away i will come home i will keep my dresses pressed i will do your dishes i will let you know if i am in distress my skin is crawling i feel my clothes i feel myself i feel myself i know i'm here i know i know i know i no honey those men are too big and scary and if you were taken away i don't know what i'd do no sweetie those boys are to rough and impatient they know not what they do it's in their nature to hurt you it's best if you stay away away away away away away away away away away i will fall whenever you want me to hit the ground oh make it easy i pray to you god bless this mess that has followed thru
7.
Trash Day 03:24
we live by the trains and watch them go by the noise rattles my plants but darlin i don't mind just make your place where you need to i will follow you close behind our lights are always yellow and warm you know we're a symbol to the travelers our fridge is always empty bellies cold but chin up there's plenty to be had out there the earth beneath our feet has never felt as sweet than on this trash day and who's our audience? and what's the ambiance? is this the cost of living? i won't preen i won't pry i'll sit here on the roof i'll be sick i'll be sad i'll play dead if i need to and i might well i might well i might and i might well i might sometimes a sacrifice is not what it takes to keep a family alive and you can try for the rest of your life to find time but there's some things you'll never fix on that list the earth beneath your feet has never felt as sweet than on this trash day and who's our audience? and what's the ambiance? is this the cost of living? i won't preen i won't pry i'll sit here on the roof i'll be sick i'll be sad i'll play dead if i need to and i might well i might well i might and i might well i might
8.
Space 04:52
my head is spinning from this cold medication it is springtime today i had a vision of me falling flat on my face into a bed of mulch and falling asleep and dreaming of a place where two people make it work well my ribs still hurt from a nighttime coughing fit i had when i was night-teen i touch the fracture gingerly this body will stumble and struggle continuously but i will forever make it work i wanna go to space i wanna make a big scene i wanna leave my trace on this little world i wanna turn to sand i wanna be a better man i wanna spend my time taking back what's mine i wanna go to space i wanna get in trouble i wanna see my face plastered over town i wanna know my role i wanna be a better girl i wanna tell someone but no one's here to tell my head is spinning from this cold medication it is springtime today i had a vision of me falling flat on my face into a bed of mulch and falling asleep and dreaming of a place where two people make it work well my ribs still hurt from a nighttime coughing fit i had when i was night-teen i touch the fracture gingerly this body will stumble and struggle continuously but i will forever make it work
9.
my mother was fourteen when the doctors scared her back to life where would her organs go if time had passed her by? i woke up at 4am craving cranberry juice the heat trapped in the back of my throat won't go away i subsist off of select colors of complimentary saltwater taffy make it last until the hotel staff finds me i am a fortunate consequence of a bad situation i am a fortunate consequence of a bad situation and i know that i'm alive i don't know why well maybe i had died a long time ago but i don't know my mother's belly full twice more than there's waking proof the will to carry on was born inside us my brother and i played in the brambles that overran our backyard and they're gone now but we're still around carrying our secrets like whispers to the ground i am a fortunate consequence of a bad situation i am a fortunate consequence of a bad situation and i know that i'm alive i don't know why well maybe i would have died a long time ago but i'm still here
10.
i'm a proud warrior tho you must leave me on the shore would you heal my heart to get me back to her? the moon may fall or stay safe in the sky but her children are on their way home and there'll be times when she will sing and forget my name two syllables lost to the water i hope time remains a tepid thing i'm a proud warrior tho you must leave me on the shore would you heal my heart to get me back, to get me back, to get me back to her? doo doo doo da doo doo doo doo da dooo doo doo doo da doo doo doo doo da doo da dooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhooohhohohhoooooo
11.
Joan 03:48
John you know you're the only one i've ever wanted to take the train for the Hudson parts its' ways for us and if we talk real careful if we sip real slow your family back home will forget you John you know the days are getting long for these old bones i find myself drifting out to space and you know if i had the time i'd pray for you everyday if i was a god loving woman but i don't believe in anything because you won't let me believe in you so i guess it's best to blame me i guess it's best to frame me and fire me for things that aren't true i've been living on my own but i find that you're the song i sing all the time when i'm blue what have you done to me? what have you done to me, oh my god, what have you done? John you don't need to come inside just stay right there by the front door thanks for coming to pick me up it's too cold of a day and my muscles are all sore all i can offer this christmas is my company i'm sorry i don't have nothing more but i'll never get rid of anything in case you ever want something back i know it seems a mess but i really try my best to clear a path when i hear you're in town i've been living on my own but i find that you're the song i sing all the time when i'm blue what have you done to me? what have you done to me, oh my god, what have you done?

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Ryan Vieira - bass, scream
Becca Kotula - violin
Morgan Murphy - vocals, guitar
Shawn Durham - drums
Hugo Willis - guitar, glass cup

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released March 10, 2017

Recorded at Headroom Studios in Philadelphia, PA. Produced by Joe Reinhart. Mixed and mastered by Kyle Pulley. Art by Averill Nolte.

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