thank you to my friend Nick Dromin for the recording, editing & instrumentation!

Quarter Girl (lyrics)

they tried to work out the backward life she's livin' wrong
Quarter Girl says she's stealthy
she gets along

she says i'm walking the street
with quarters in my pockets
life's pretty sweet
thank god i'm crazy

they tried fix up the tooth picks that she was walkin' on
Quarter Girl thinks she's healthy
she's lived this long

she says i'm makin' ends meet
with quarters in my pockets
that's all i need
so you say i'm crazy
well, thank god i'm crazy

there's so much more to life than money
you're not poor if you are happy

so we're walking the street
with quarters in our pockets
just take a seat
we're better off crazy
thank god we're crazy
we're cool with crazy

they said Quarter Girl you're helpless so we'll be movin' on
Quarter Girl said i'm wealthy
i wrote my song
 
a dollar of a person
with quarters in my pockets
'cause quarters make a dollar

Quarter Girl (Demo 2)

Millennial Pink

wednesday

NEVER ASLEEP draft 2

my roommate must kind of hate me
i wake her up with my bull shit
she’s way too sweet i wish she’d say something
don’t wanna be hard to live with

it’s muck
it isn’t me i swear
it’s stuck
like cum in my hair

in my head it seeps
always dreaming
never asleep

‘cause my brain kind of hates me
it keeps me up with its bull shit
songs in my head keep me out of bed
they wanna be hard to live with

the plucks
are ringing to a blare...
what luck
they really wanna share

they sink in deep
always dreaming
never asleep

sing me to sleep
sing me awake
sing me back to sleep

NEVER ASLEEP draft 2

RED LIGHTS FLASH
by: Living Things

[VERSE 1]
everyone’s lost until they’re found
so you have to break the surface
before you stop fighting & drown

when will we ever get it right
‘cause our grip on things is slipping
but we keep on holding tight

[PRE CHORUS 1]
we say:
we’re really gonna pay
hey
we can’t go on this way

but we keep going
never slowing
always growing

to a crash

[CHORUS 1]
& we’re unwinding
the world’s kind of blinding
WHEN RED LIGHTS FLASH

[VERSE 2]
RED LIGHTS FLASH all over the hills
but if you just close your curtains
you can pay your lower bills

i’ve learned by now that silence kills
all of us for certain

[PRE CHORUS 2]
we say:
look how much we pay!
hey
they can’t go on this way

but it keeps burning
it’s concerning
always turning

into ash

[CHORUS 2]
watching not learning
our world is churning

as RED LIGHTS FLASH
& we let them FLASH

[VERSE 3]
i sit in smog as my car purrs
staring at the flashing red lights
in a sea of still bumpers

i stare until my vision blurs
if it’s this easy to lose sight
then the nightmares just recur

[PRE CHORUS 3]
we say:
we don’t wanna pay!
hey
let’s just go on this way

[OUTRO]
in all the fuss
it’s on every bus:

“STOP WHEN RED LIGHTS FLASH”

RED LIGHTS FLASH

Dream Girls

girlfriends don’t last long with her around
even when he told you forever
now she gives him what you couldn’t?

‘cause she’s around
until she’s no longer around

girlfriends don’t last long with him around
‘cause he tells them forever
& that he’d give them what he wouldn't

‘cause he'll take whatever’s around
his Dream Girls stop waiting around

some girlfriends don’t last long with me around
‘cause it won’t last forever
unless it’s meant to be
i wish you the best, girlfriends

Dream Girls draft 1

beauty & her beat
(i changed the second to last line of the lyrics in the recording to improve the song)

you won’t find me waiting in a tower
spelled asleep for your kiss
sorry i won’t be home on the hour
i’m picking my own flowers now
glass shoes don’t fit

you told me that you’re not good enough
you proved yourself right
magic carpets aren’t good enough
you’re higher than a kite

you won’t hear me singing in the shower
won my own voice back
you let our Whole New World go sour
i have all of my power now
let lightening crack

you didn’t try to be good enough
or to make things right
you needed space, that’s not good enough
this fish just won’t bite

i’ll Get Down to Business, now
not a princess who settles for frogs
i've got the best of both worlds
mirror says i’m fairest of all

happily ever after, the end

beauty & her beat draft 1

prudence

grand daddy taught me
nothing is free
no one is happy
until they scream

so long live their rudeness
that's what he said
& long live their prudence
when they lay down dead

grandmama told me
at grand dad instead
of others just scowling
she turned ‘round & said 

long live your rudeness
that's what she said
& long live your prudence
when you are dead

& they will both speak out
long after they’re dead
the people who spoke out
we still speak about

so long live our rudeness
after we're shred
& long live our prudence
when we are dead

then long live our prudence

prudence

hurry!



why you gotta be in a hurry?

why you gotta move along like that?

everybody’s blurred in a flurry

why can’t anybody just relax?



if you dive under

beneath all the thunder

you’ll surface & you’ll realize

that you never were surprised



i used to be in a hurry

i used to move along like that

i used to be a blur in the flurry

i used to not know how to relax



i dove deep under

beneath all the thunder

i surfaced & i realized

that i never was surprised 



so why was i just in a hurry?

why did i move along like that?

i liked to be a blur in the flurry

i was afraid to just relax



if you weren’t always a hurry

if you didn’t move along like that

you’d blur yourself out of the flurry

you would sit down & just relax



just relax

just relax



but you’re always in a hurry

& i gotta let you hurry

you get along in the flurry



so i’ll just sit back & relax



that all this is no surprise

indie vivie

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