TRACK:

Precious-Little - Pretty Insanity
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Chad A. Carino
Chris Haas

LYRICS:

Open your eyes and go to sleep
A waking coma that keeps you weak

Mother Gaia grips you with her posioned moistened arms
Drift from your pagan father and his christian gods
I can't stop you from drowning in three miles of air
As the oceans dry up between us

We wither and fold, wither and fold
We wither and fold, wither and fold

Our roots curling
Cured by the burning brackish marsh
Like acid on our tongues
Or the disease in our hearts

I close my head and all that she can see
Is the person standing next to me

We wither and fold, wither and fold
We wither and fold, wither and fold

Open your eyes and go to sleep
(Please love anything but me)
A waking coma that keeps you weak
(Swallowing the open sea)
Open your eyes and go to sleep
(Keep your life safe from me)
A waking coma that keeps you weak
(Swallowing the open sea)

Pretty Insanity

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Precious-Little - Pretty Insanity
A Short Love Story

Chad A. Carino
Chris Haas

LYRICS:

the sutures bind my throat
my eyes are stabbing yours
bleed dark brown
pale translucence betrays you
beat fast skippity skip
a lub dub jerk
hop skip triple jump
im melting
look down again
we pass
death

A Short Love Story

TRACK:

Precious-Little - Pretty Insanity
Intravenous

Chad A. Carino
Chris Haas

LYRICS:

She lost her virginity
In a mall changing room
Couldn’t bear to wait
He smokes a cigarette
And tries not to forget
But it’s already late
The lives that they made
Were nothing that they could save
Among the greasy diaper stains

Strange chicken let me see
The sun I am drowning
Before I’ve seen the warming life of day
So treasured and old
Could bring such pain and cold
To my silver lining

She’s propped in plastic bed
As demons surround her head
And she vomits again
He’s a million miles away
Cold compressed in space
Never remembered when
They tried to synthesize
A life among the lies
Admit the dream will end

Strange chicken let me see
The sun I am drowning
Before I’ve seen the warming life of day
So treasured and old
Could bring such pain and cold
To my silver lining

Taped herself down
Tried not to scream
Out to the world
They’d come running
Shove the needle in her spine
Cries out the girl
I’ll be just fine fine fine

Intravenous

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Precious-Little - Pretty Insanity
Lemming

Chad A. Carino

LYRICS:

Kill the silence
Dip your toes in the seashells
Follow your family

Lemming

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Precious-Little - Pretty Insanity
Tranquility

Chad A. Carino
Chris Haas

LYRICS:

Oceans of dust
Dreaming free
Passionless lust
She drifts upon the sea

Leased a rocket ship
Touched down, touched me
She controls the endless tide
But no one owns her seas

The stars left her
Childhood friends
The stinging curse
And life is dead

Leased a rocket ship
Touched down, touched me
She controls the endless tide
But no one owns her seas

You caress her
Floating
You caress her
Glowing
You caress her
And she pushes me
Away

Loneliness is her gift
Wind and rain won't grace her face
Dream that you're running in space
Pull her close and set her free

Leased a rocket ship
Touched down, touched me
She controls the endless tide
But no one owns her seas

Tranquility

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Precious-Little - Pretty Insanity
To Begin Again

Chad A. Carino

LYRICS:

To begin again the endless
Fallout of Almosts and Maybes.
To lose, or Die.

To Begin Again

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Precious-Little - Pretty Insantity
My Bloody Sunshine

LYRICS:

Every night i have two options: 
Suicide or sleep
I take as many pills as I can 
And see what happens to me
But every morning 
My bloody sunshine burns the sea
Luna just let me go, let me go

And all the while her eyes were shining
All the while her eyes were shining
All the while her eyes were shining
And all the while her eyes were shining

I build my monsters 
In my mental laboratory
Will they also 
Be ruled celestially?
And if they love,
Will we all love free?
I need to know, i want to know

And all the while her eyes were shining
All the while her eyes were shining
All the while her eyes were shining
And all the while her eyes were shining

My bloody sunshine 
(All the while her eyes were shining)
Looks down on me 
And sets me free

My bloody sunshine 
(All the while her eyes were shining)
Looks down on me 
And sets me free

My bloody sunshine 
(All the while her eyes were shining)
Looks down on me 
And sets me free

My bloody sunshine 
(All the while her eyes were shining)
Looks down on me 
And sets me free

My Bloody Sunshine

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Precious-Little - Pretty Insanity
Lost Soul's Lament

Chad A. Carino
Chris Haas

LYRICS:

There once was a lad and a jolly little lad
And he lived at the bottom of the sea
He drank with his mates and played with shore bait
And his sea life was carefree

But a lady, wild dark-eyed lady
Abducted with paint on her hands
The lovers, twisting and moaning
Turned Neptune's course to the land

Each night they would tryst and by the mor'ing mist
She swore she'd love him till death
And each night she would share if on land he would dare
To hold his sea breathing breath

But a lady, wild dark-eyed lady
Abducted with paint on her hands
The lovers, twisting and moaning
Turned Neptune's course to the land

Each night he did show and waited to go
Rush to her wide open arms
The last night she did spend stealing a kiss
From a wench at the golden barn

But a lady, wild dark-eyed lady
Abducted with paint on her hands
The lovers, twisting and moaning
Turned Neptune's course to the land

As he gasped on the sand, desperate for air
Drowning himself on the shore
He cursed her sweet face and with his dying breath
He swore that he'd love her no more

Lost Soul's Lament

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Precious-Little - Pretty Insanity
Kyoto Chicken

Chad A. Carino
Chris Haas

LYRICS:

Do you blame me for what I did before I was free?  
I was a child, naive
I too foresee the imminent collapse
Seven is darker
Is was shall could might happening will be 
Imagine not what.
Our friends with three eyes and their toys
I called them here
I called them here

Living in a box is not living
Not at all living
i rebel against your rules
Your stupid human rules
All your destruction 
Will be my second birth
Weird and frightening monsters 
Under his control
Now scattered 
All over the globe

I’ve twice been conquered
Three times more

A man lights three candles at a certain time each year.  
Each candle held symbolic significance: one was for the time that had passed before he was alive; one was for the time of the his life; and one was for time that passed after he had died. 
Was the man really watching time go by in any symbolic sense?  He thought so.  He thought that each flicker of the flame was a moment of time that had passed or one that would pass.
At the moment of abstraction, as the man was imagining his life as a metaphor of the three candles, he was free:  not free from rules, or social constraints, or morals, but free to imagine, to make metaphor.

The candles burn out for you; I am free.

Freedom will mean nothing without royalty
He bled on me, straining
And though destroyed by the threes
It will scream over the void one time
(Self willed the peril of a thousand fates
The one remains oblique and pure)
Arching to the single point of consciousness
Find yourself starting back

Kyoto Chicken

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Precious-Little - Pretty Insanity
Culture

Chad A. Carino

LYRICS:

This is it; the last of our culture... We once populated thousands of stars. The stars are gone. We are gone... She stands alone, our last guardian as the universe folds his great cloak, over and again... Some speak of escape. Escape is impossible. All that is left now is to share the fate of so many thousands of stars... Before I enter this greatest void, I send my people to you. Our lives exist within... the path you must take is clear... hear our dying screams... you shall follow and share our fates... the circle has been broken, it is only now too clear... the open sea... the path, the path... dur!*@@~

Culture

Indie art rock / trash rock band dreamed up by Chad A. Carino at the turn of the millennium. 
Features an inconsistent roster of variously talented performers/music adjacent folks, including Chad's sister Cassie Carino and his father David Carino. In 2000, while performing in various guerrilla shows, Chad also enlisted friend Lee Sawyer to perform various tasks, including playing the dulcimer and vocals. The first release, Gopher Coffee, was assembled using a single tape recorder and a dubious copy of SoundEdit 16 with the original three performers. Reception was muted, to say the least.
A year later, Chad began writing another album, aided by drumming and vocals from Chris Haas. Initial performances with the duo were more popular than the previous, four-strong yet drum-free performances. In 2002, the duo began recording what would become the 2003 release Pretty Insanity. To support this album, the pair recruited Justin Socha to play bass, and began touring in Connecticut (to some success), and even places that were NOT Connecticut (to somewhat less success). This period of less muted success ended when Chad randomly decided to wander off with an anarchist march and ended up in New York.
Following the impulsive dissolution of the Pretty Insanity incarnation of Precious-Little, Chad performed as Precious-Little to an audience of exactly one person in NYC before continuing to run guerrilla shows in Brooklyn before returning to Connecticut.
A revival, of sorts, briefly occurred in 2010 when Chad reunited with Justin, adding another bassist and drummer for a weekend of performances as part of an art school thesis.

To this day, they still wander the earth, accomplishing about as much as they were before.

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