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Barbara Ann
03:15
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Well it bleeds like steak but it isn’t steak
I’m dying for a taste of the genuine fake
There ain’t nothing you can’t shape
From corn and soybeans
Blue eyed Jesus, billboard babies
Picking away at a long dead barn finch
Bones hollow like heritage it’s
A feeling you can’t shake
In a world so mean and
Mangled up with memory
How did it go, the one you liked?
Barbara Ann, don’t fuck around
With a Louisville Slugger under
Your side of the bed
No one’s gonna hurt you now
No one’s gonna hurt you
With cherries dropping like
Baby teeth you dropped
Baby fat you start
Making babies
Dark as death and twice as funny
Spitting stones at far off lightning
It strikes like god and it burns like meat
Like the current in the fence in the singular heat
It’s the palm on the line you laid this morning
The life you chose that sent you reeling
How did it go, how was it
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2. |
Habanero
03:33
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Such a hot habanero
You can feel it in your jaw you said
This never happens to me
This never happens
But you smile while you suffer
So you’re lying or wrong and I
I’m never happy but I’ve
Never been better
I need to see you sweat
I need to see you
I need to see you sweat
Wouldn’t we be perfect together if we wanted exactly the same thing?
You’re so hot it’s embarrassing
I feel it in my cheeks I know
This never happens to me
This never happens
But I smile while I suffer
Like a sucker supreme
And I, I’m never happy but I’ve
Never been better
I need to see you sweat
I need to see you
I need to see you sweat
Wouldn’t we be perfect together if we wanted exactly the same thing?
All at once I’m a child trappin tadpoles in a cup
And I know
They’ll never make it
I know they’ll never make it
But I smile while they suffer
Cause I want it so much
I can’t believe I’ll die
Before becoming a frog
Wouldn’t we be perfect together if we wanted exactly the same thing?
If i want you exactly I’m changing
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3. |
Different Animals
03:08
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I feel like I knew ya before
I knew feeling and knowing were different animals
I can feel my teeth in the jaws
Of a feeling while knowing got off
To god knows where
You can hold my head to the light
I can tell you all of my names
You can print whatever you find
You can call me anything
I feel like we been here for days
Layin low in malaise
Slamming sugar free cola
You look like you got some to say
Shame to have and to give ain’t the same
But you know that
You know!
Pin me to the table and cut
Sip at the formaldehyde
You may never know what I was
But you can call me any time
I feel like a kid in your arms
Hangin high on a gaze
Waving dangling toes
You look far away lookin on
It’s amazing you claim we’re not different animals
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4. |
Trim
01:33
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Shaving my legs for the first time in ages
I’m smooth as a river stone
Feeling amphibious
Creature of slime in a lake in the city
Watch children point fingers
At fast sinking currency
Your eyes sinking pennies
Spinning in the deep
I wish I were the afternoon sun
On your body
I’m shaving my legs for the first time in ages
I’m trimming the minutes
Till we’re back on speaking term
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5. |
For Sale: Ford Pinto
02:33
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Wolfy’s watching car wrecks on the internet
It’s hard to look away some sicko’s made a playlist
Pick you up at eight I’m rolling in a Pinto
Fender bend a cop car
Flame it out in claims court
So fucked it’s not even funny
But you’ve got ways of making me laugh
Time is a trash compactor
I’m feeling pressed
But at least you’re here with me and
We’ve got sexual tension
Bending over backwards
Doing my best
To make the most of my minutes
Diminishing in a garbage world
You tell me to
You tell me to
Wolfing down Doritos
Lickin on my fingers
Anger on my tongue
Doritos in my anger
I can make it numb get
Salty spicy bitter
Drink a lot of water
Try to wake up different
So fucked I swear nothing matters
But you’ve got ways of making me talk
Time is a trash compactor
I’m feeling pressed
But at least you’re here with me and
We’ve got sexual tension
Bend me over backwards
Doing my best
To make the most of my minutes
Diminishing in a garbage world
You tell me to breathe like it’s easy, like it’s easy,
like it’s something I’ve been doing for years
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6. |
Ambrosia
03:45
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Chewing on my fat lip, contemplate the Cool Whip
Cover dish and chill for a while
You got money stress so I pick up the check
I check my balance as I lean to one side
And I am older every second
Than I’ve ever been
Right now & now & now
I want you more with every second
Than I ever did
Right now & now & now
Ambrosia, dish of the gods gets
Covered in Cool Whip, shoved
To the back of the fridge
Black tank top, middle of autumn
Nothing is different
Just cause you wish that it is
Ducking out a cool rain, listening to Coltrane
I grew up the place where she died
Payin my respects while awaiting your texts
I think I love you in all possible lives
But the end is closer every second
Than it’s ever been
Right now & now & now
I want you more with every second
Than I ever did
Right now & now & now
Ambrosia’s turning me honest
Sweet as they come but
I’m not the one that they miss
A vision covered in Cool Whip
Nothing is simple just cause you wish that it is
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7. |
Arrow
03:56
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Time flies like an arrow baby in a wheelbarrow
swaying where the wind blows static on the radio now,
Bats eat fireflies look at how the time flies
baby in a wheelbarrow static on the radio now,
Stayed up all night looking at the moonlight,
saw another bat fly and a firefly die,
no more grapes left, no more tapes left,
no more time left no more space left,
I think that the DJ left his booth,
I’m staring at the roof and there’s static on the radio now,
Time flies like an arrow, I will be a man tomorrow
the world is quiet there’s a rainbow on the TV now,
I will stay awake the tooth fairy wont take all my
teeth away a rainbow on the TV now.
Take my teeth to the cemetery,
don’t walk up the spiral stairway,
monkeys & babies are scary,
my mom is not the tooth fairy,
I think that the DJ left his booth,
I’m staring at the roof and there’s static on the radio now.
There are rainbows, There are daisies,
sweet old ladies, bats and babies,
There are no babes in wheelbarrows, no tooth fairies,
no tomorrows,
Where’s my past and where’s my future?
When did the DJ leave his booth?
When did the wheelbarrow fall off the roof?
and where did the tooth fairy put my tooth?
Time flies like an arrow, I will be a man
tomorrow, world is quiet and there’s
static on the radio,
I will stay awake the tooth fairy won’t take all
my teeth away static on the radio,
I think the DJ left his booth I’m staring at the roof and there’s static on the radio now,
And I don’t fall asleep, I ascend to it.
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8. |
Creature of Slime
00:44
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Creature of slime
I love smashing up the city
Till you arrive at the scene
All glittering cool
I’m instantly tired
Of smashing up the city
So I die in my sleep
After many happy years
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9. |
Brand New Beast
01:38
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I’m so sick of swatting flies
And you won’t even eat em
It’s a tepid compromise
To treat as you’d be treated we got
Twisted in that line
Tongue tied up and turned around
And you won’t even eat me out
If I could shed you like a skin
Brand new beast I would
Embrace terrarium
Happy as I need to be I
Feel you peering in
From underneath a heat lamp sun
But you can’t even make me out
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10. |
Airport
02:39
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My girl is an airport
Plexiglass police state
The middle of nowhere
The man with a taser
Glassy eyed icon
Says she’s good to drive
Loving you is a dream like
Losing my teeth like
Running in place
Unable to scream
After all of the scrubbing
I bet you’re still finding glitter
Bet you’re still making excuses
For why you’re waking up face down
Glossy eyed python
Begs me not to cry
I give in to the squeeze
I’m sighing relief
I was always alone
I’ve been dead the whole time
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11. |
Dog
02:55
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Sharp tongues don’t get fed
But I, I only bite if I have to beg
Left right baby gonna
Shake your head again
Left halfway from
Nowhere to nothing
Hear you
Cry like a dog
Caught with a foot in the door
Outside and inside
Outside and inside
Hey smart mouth I could comfort you
I’ll only bite if you beg me to
Pink blue baby did it hurt to choose?
Middle of nothing,
Nowhere to lose
Hear you
Cry like a dog
Caught with a foot in the door
Outside and inside
Outside and inside
Breathe deep
Use both lungs
The first fish to leave the ocean
Breathed deep
Like it was born knowing how
Came out
Like it was born knowing
Outside and inside
Outside and inside
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12. |
Clinic Poem
00:52
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You called
The second you knew what to say and how to say it
I pulled over by the clinic
In the parking lot of healing
I cried
Like I was born into the nighttime
And I watched the world turn
Cheek to cheek
Perpetual as sunrise
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13. |
Peach Pit
03:53
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Lickity split split
Driving with my back to the sun
I’m a peach pit
Not as sweet as I once was
Guess I missed it
Sleeping in the tract home
I’m a peach pit
Split me open watch me grow
And the lights come on
Memory’s a good kid
Sleeping to the backseat hum
I’m distracted
Counting the reactors
It’s a hazmat
Atom execution
All the good kids
Watch em splitting one by one
And the lights come on
Lickity split split
Sleeping with my back to ya
I’m a good kid
Slipping in the ocean
You’re a good kid
Caught up in a bad dream
I’m reacting
Faster than I know what I mean
And the lights come on
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14. |
How Was It?
01:14
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Rosie Tucker Los Angeles, California
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