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Bedrooms & Attics

by Molly Robison

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1.
A calmer girl would let it go She probably would have let you know by now Her body's long awaited match Should've figured it out somehow And yet there you are, sitting on your hands You're only using your mouth A Wednesday night was spent in wait Albeit several years too late But it was worth it just to hear Your static-filled voice in my ear But look at us, we're still right here In this absurd suspended state It's so sad that we try to tell it through song When it's clear that neither one of us Are gonna sing along Keep it inside My love, at least for once we tried You're trying hard to change your mind You've done this damn near every time But when your body's next to mine I'm out the door and flying blind Though I'm hating every second I'm still willing to stand in line I'm going against everything that I meant It may be fun at night, but in the morning I'm spend And everybody knows So it might be better if I left And so I held my breath too long 'Cause I was cheered on by the crowd Don't take offense that it went wrong Instead of being meek and proud We should've opened up our mouths We got out what we put in I never would've guessed That two sweet kids could've caused such a mess But I'm glad it was with you We wouldn't have taken any less We wouldn't have taken any less
2.
Recordings and rummagings All things stretching back as far as I remember Soft light, breath held tight Trying to keep our footsteps soft in the middle of December Don't want to wake your parents up Don't want to breathe in all that dust From the bedrooms and attics that sheltered us Don't want to pull the sheet down Just want to show everything we found In the bedrooms and attics where we kicked around Oh Full-grown with headphones Skylights filling me with warmth and trust Down the hall and through the door Thinking I was working on a future made for us Don't want to get the notes wrong Don't want you stringing me along In the bedrooms and attics where we made our songs Don't want you to watch me Just wanted you to hold me softly In the bedrooms and attics were we stayed too long Oh Bedrooms and attics Every choice made to scare or delight us The ghosts and the choruses Never knew they would someday divide us
3.
He walks down city streets Taking everybody's heat Talking everybody up And though he can't quite remember my name He'll be driving a while tonight It'll take him a while tonight And I hope he comes home with the snow 'Cause there's no love in Cicero In his own words he did write Of the dangers he faces at night We met in a common way Passed each other by mistake And he caught me in a rage Although he said that he knew right then I was a good person inside A good person somewhere inside And I hope he comes home with the snow 'Cause there's no love in Cicero In his own words he did write Of the dangers he faces at night Come home
4.
Pearl Lenore, born in a small town Never had many friends, kept mostly to herself Had few books on her shelf A plain girl, so quiet and homely Moved off to the city To study music carefully 'Til one day her friend Emily Said she had something for her to see She'd been playing with ouija Had a message coming through From someone she once knew Our Pearl never wanted to try it out But the moment she did She met a girl with prose and poetry Flowing from her mouth A girl with red hair who had lived across the sea Had a message to share with Pearl and Pearl only So quietly she said Many moons ago I lived Again I come Patience Worth, Patience Worth, Patience Worth Is my name Wait, I would speak with thee If thou shall live, then so shall I I make my bread at thy hearth Good friends, let us be merry The time for work is passed Let the tabby drowse And wink her wisdom to the firelogs They met fame with fire and frenzy But as soon as they came, they were gone Washed into obscurity
5.
As the wine rolls past our teeth I'm spilling out my guts And I blame it all on these These two times I tried to trust But that's no excuse My hard times have come and gone And I've made some kind of truce Surely it won't last long I've looked you in the face Said, "I'm out of my mind." You put me in my place So for now I'm trying to find The proper words to use 'Cause I'd hate to tell a lie And this one rings so true For now I'll stay here standing by Lips pursed, eyes down, half lost So kiss me while you can 'Cause soon I'll say some words you can't understand And it's only getting worse So save yourself, my dear Try as I may, I can't say What you'd like to hear I'd leave you every day Lips pursed, eyes down, half lost

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released March 18, 2011

All photos by Kyle Cassidy (www.kylecassidy.com)

All songs written, produced, and performed by Molly Robison (on a mac, with one lone microphone).

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