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Melanie's Dream Song
05:00
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A sweltering room in a small hotel outside of Hot Springs, Arkansas
With the lights turned out the mosquitos look for blood
And she blindly looks for love
Tonight he is the poet and she is the restless page
He scribbles sonnets so sweet she still sings them today
One hundred telephones ring in a rhapsodic rejoice
When she picks up the receiver she won't hear anyone's voice
Her fingers still ache and her lip begins to quiver
She wants to soar away, but gravity is such a killer
Tantalizing tender tendons trace over tiny turquoise buttons
And it seems like such a queer color for a young girl to wear
When her dress hits the hotel carpet it almost looks like it belongs there
Who's to say what's right when what's done is done
She's not 16 anymore
She doesn't see him anymore
Her parents don't ask where she is anymore
She doesn't fall in love so easily anymore
His intentions are ambivalent, but he pretends that they're benevolent
Do you like the night time he asks her gently
Maybe the sun won't come up she says
If we lay here long enough maybe we'll stay in love
At least that's a chance more than I've had
She pictures herself as the bride as he slowly drains his pen
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Baby Fat
02:45
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She's about to become teen thinking about boys discovering what puberty means but she doesn't feel pretty
All the compliments her parents give her never seem to reach her ears
All she sees is baby fat, I thought it went away she asks
Summer heat 75 degrees always in long sleeves
Her friends look and wonder what is she hiding, but really she's searching
Searching for dignity and grace and poise and all the other things that make all the other girls so pretty
Why can't it be me daddy
She asks her father innocently
He brushes her hair back and kisses her forehead you're a pretty as any of them
An hour later he sneaks back in and the glow of the night light turns everything green why can't they see what I see
Stares into her eyes and convinces himself
She's the prettiest thing I've ever seen
She's the only thing I'll ever need
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Maya Deren Films
07:16
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On a porcelain floor
This is what I've been waiting for
With your hands on my wrist
I didn't think it'd happen like this
April 4th, 1994
Can you give me a few dollars for the cab ride home
I didn't think it'd take so long
To get to the front door of your dorm
I liked what we talked about before
Maya Deren films and Sylvia Plath poems
High school is so dull
I was worried I wouldn't be smart enough
And you'd find me boring
But I swear I couldn't breathe when you laughed at that joke I made
And you asked if you could kiss me
It was such a polite thing to say
Now you're on top of me
But I didn't move
I didn't wanna tell you
It was my first time
I thought it'd ruin the mood
I didn't want to lose you so soon
All those high school boys said they'd take it off my hand
I'm glad I gave it to you
What happens next
What happens after sex
This is a dumb question
I feel embarrassed for asking it
My senior prom is at the end of the month
Do you think you'd like to go?
You say you don't know
Maybe you're too old
It's nothing personal
If you change your mind give me a call
We could do something else
Maybe go to the mall
Or we could go see a show
What's that one band you're always telling me about
As I watched the snow melt
From the back of that yellow car
I thought about what I said
I began to hate myself
Do you think he'll call
I waited by the phone
The tears began to flow
But I didn't let anyone know
It just hurts so much
To hear your mom always say
Melanie what's wrong?
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John C
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Melanie's Boyfriend
04:31
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Sometimes your so sweet
Sometimes your so mean
Sometimes your so sweet
I forgot how sometimes your so mean
I keep reliving this scene
Where we're sharing an air mattress
The pink wallpaper drips
As we contort our bodies to fit
I've got a cellphone alarm clock
Set to go off at nine
The sun shimmers through the blinds
But I didn't sleep at all
I was just listening to you snoring
It's my new favorite song
I started thinking about your last name
How well it flows in front of mine
How well it flows in front of mine
I love the hair on your legs
I'd kill to be the hair on your legs
So for the winter
Let's put the razor blades away
You woke up in a daze
Said you're falling in love with me
Quickly you fell back asleep
And I still don't know what that means
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