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Black Cat Back Stage

by Poppy Patica

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1.
Awful Sound 02:04
Meet you in the awful sound Gotta get out of town Say you’re gonna move it soon To somewhere that makes you swoon But nowhere’s as bittersweet As these potholed DC streets So what you gonna smoke about When you’ve got it all worked out Bound to the land Can’t let go Bad ideas Shouldn’t have come here But where do I go Nobody even knows How your garden grows Without sun it’s bad They tried to steal your bag Hiding in the city It’s dying like you and me So what you gonna smoke about When you’ve got it all worked out Bound to the land Can you let go Bad ideas Shouldn’t have come here But where do I go
2.
Handprint 03:02
We live alone in a city I call home Though it’s not much I feel something for it Do you? Do you I make a sound and it’s swallowed into a hole. Have I found it? The grand state of nothing? Do you Even feel me? Even feel me, I feel you Even feel me, I’ve been gone too long to know I take a stab at what I think is right And then bloody handprint On my front door and I don’t know what It’s from Something painful Something painful Something painful I am gone too long to know
3.
Dance on the street where you're haunted to live It's not what you wanted but you get what you give Falling star feels like a chance you let slip Chase it around the earth but it's burnt to bits What you want it’s a real thing but it drifts The world could be perfect but it's built of bricks Shooting star feels like a chance you let fall But it’s just a rock not a star at all Partition’s going according to plan We fall apart and walk right into trap hands What you want it's a real thing but it's Rome The city could be perfect but it’s built out of stone Now it just looks like a silver space shit But a city is in your heart not on the strip The district is dead but yet it lives Sometimes good people don't get what they give
4.
When you’re drunk at the end of the day Who is the one you want to hear you Play your sweetest song Get on the bus cause there is no train Slid off the rails we gotta Take it back, build it again It’s not electric rhythm, it’s just a second thought Is it not? It’s just electric rhythm, it’s not a second thought It’s not, it’s not, it’s not Slip into the creek and I’m shedding it all Singing it, singing it high The worst thing you could do is not try Slide down the peak and I’m shedding it all Singing it, singing it high The worst thing you could do is not try Find that special someone in a dream Who do you love? They’re gonna make the city So much sweeter Sweeter than cherry pie It’s not a lucid lover, it’s just a second thought It’s not It’s not a secret service, it’s just protecting the Capitol, capital You found a lucid lover, it’s not a second thought Is it not? You found an elusive lover, it’s just a second thought, it’s not, it’s not, it’s not Deep in the dream someone hands you a map Your sense of direction’s back But you wake up empty handed Deep in the dream someone kisses your neck You got that momentum back But you wake up empty hearted You wake up lonely hearted You wake up open hearted
5.
Band Aid 02:22
I’m gonna end you But there’s nothing to end Cause you left me the moment it all began So eager to please like a blanket of fleas A contagious disease unwilling to bend Swept up by uncertainties Never have I seen Something so serene as your slumber Underwater dreams Swim little fish cause the thunder’s getting closer And the storm won’t pass over I hope you send all the letters you wrote Craft a poem to choke my anxieties We’re better upstairs in your grandmother’s house I’m as quiet as a mouse and Nothing compares to nibbling on your moldy cheese Never, never have I seen something so serene as your slumber Stare with my high beams Burn through your skin and I wonder Will it wake you And how long will it take you to see me Who’s gonna be your band aid now I’m bleeding out? x3 Who’s gonna be your band aid now?
6.
Top 02:32
Wasn’t it true you faked it You had what you want when you tried To be on top like a fairy tale Why did you turn Everything comes in waves that Crash are you sure (on the shore) of your mind To be on top but you wanna bail Hard to try to make you feel it all the same Well it’s not going to die Far it feels as though the weight of all your wins Has left you only with a sigh Why did you turn Into a sunken place x2
7.
Mystery Meat 02:25
I feel ugly I don’t wanna go dancin I go dancin I don’t really go dancin You stay hungry I just wanna keep chillin I get angry We both have to move but we never have to speak Dancin in my head Moving on my own time Working for my friends And I know what you think I know how you sing I know all the things about you And that’s why I am running the other way Weight to fall on me But I can see you runnin just to Make that shy kid see To jump on every chance their handed This time’s fun cause we Don’t know what will happen yet And curiosity Killed my cat But it keeps me safe from that So shake for fun like a tripping nun who says that While you’re young you’re just mystery meat
8.
Walking through the city Nobody wants me Some are encroached upon Some people don’t know what they’re doin And some people know just what they’re doin Talking to the city Nobody’s happy Some of them pretend to be Some can’t pretend to be And maybe some are really happy Walking through the city Looking like the enemy Well maybe I’m one of them, Just a pawn of development Displacement’s not development This is not a new development It’s just a new colony Bulldozing through the city Demolition order Demolition order Demolition order Demolition order
9.
Sink 01:47
You always seem so sad to see the sun sideways As we sink you say you’re sorry You ask them how and why they try and get their cash on Little tanks I feel completely Saw her sleeping I can see you running out of fuel Sulfur seeping I can see you running out for you Take your protein pills and put your purple pants on I can see you moving highways They all walked in and left the fascist door half open I know that smell I fell completely again You might have to fuck some truth in too Through the shower, reverb in the outfield growling
10.
Kiwi 06:24
When it gets down it could you fit me in? If you can’t get around to it, it’s not such a sin He was a mess, he was cleaning up She was a mess, she was cleaning up They were a mess, they were cleaning up He was a mess, they were cleaning up She was a mess, they were cleaning up We are a mess, we are cleaning up Needing all the stupid little things Now more than ever Faking what you want until the thing That’s not yours is yours Something on the right lies Make it up again Something on the rise, light Make it up again We see the signs of it It’s happening but all we do is Everybody act’s so patient If you feel something You gotta let it out Into the world Something on the right lies Make it up again Something on the rise, light Make it up again I’ve seen you before I don’t mean to Act like I wanna live next store It’s hard to catch you You’re habitat is very dark We speak in different house Used to be one no we’re worlds apart Kiwi x8 I’ve seen this before I don’t mean to Act like I wanna live next It’s hard to catch you Your habitat is very dark We sleep in different houses Used to be one now we’re worlds apart Kiwi x4

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released May 5, 2023

Peter Hartmann - Guitar, Vocals
Nikhil Rao - Drums, Synth, Vocals
Chloe M - Organ, Vocals
Jeremy Ray - Bass

Recorded and mixed in Washington D.C. at Lurch by Owen Wuerker and D Saperstein February 2020
Except for "Kiwi" recorded and mixed in New Orleans by Ross Farbe April 2019
Additional instrumentation by Owen Wuerker (guitar), D Saperstein (synth), Ross Farbe (bass and synth on Kiwi)
Mastered by Adam Hirsch in Oakland, CA June 2021

All songs written by Peter Hartmann
Except for "Band Aid" written by Chloe M
Lyrics to "Sink" by Peter Hartmann and Hadas Binyamini

Illustration and watercolor by Laura Hartmann
Handwritten font by Peter Hartmann
Album art layout by Sarah Snider

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