1. |
The House Party
03:50
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I am a telephone but I only receive
This city’s not my home and I think it’s time to leave
But I don’t have a car
I’ll walk the empty streets but god I miss the bars
If the devil is real I’m sure he lives in Calgary
But then the sunset comes and washes downtown golden
The church bells ring at 6 I can hear it from my apartment
CHORUS:
And I think it’s time we all went home
This house party is over
The balloons are all popped
This time I’ll just pick up the phone
There’s no use crying about it
The sun is coming up
I was designed to turn heads when I walk through the door
I used to think it was a curse but now I’m begging god for more
Lately I’m feeling invisible
My dreams are coming true but I don’t feel it at all
The scene is dying and I fear I’ve gotten old
Now the wine’s run dry and nothing fills my cup
I hate the dawn but my friends are gone and I want to stay up
CHORUS
I’ll scream outside at the top of my lungs
Feel my skin turn red under the summer sun
Give me one more day before I have to become
Someone better than me
Someone who wouldn’t run
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2. |
The Magic Bathtub
03:56
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You’re telling a drawn out joke and I’m still the punchline
You’ve got me nostalgic for the worst summer of my life
I’ve been on the back burner so long
I don’t even remember what it’s like to feel warm
And when you’re lying in the bathtub that we found in the field outside your house
I hope you’re thinking about the next way you’ll let me down
CHORUS:
This town never treated me right
And neither do you
I feel so stuck in this city
And I’m stuck with you too
I painted all your red flags white
Cause it was just something to do
So what are you doing Friday night
Cause there’s a public execution for two
I’m watching daytime tv like a drifter or a housewife
There’s comfort in knowing that I’ll be doing this the rest of my life
Dying young is much too glamorous for us
The pressure keeps on rising but refuses to combust
Now I’m lying in the bathtub in a desperate plea to understand you
The minutes pass like hours with my vodka and the skyline view
And when you pull through
I can see you like before
For a moment
Then it’s gone
There’s no way out
CHORUS
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3. |
Summer Never Ends
04:06
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Too used to secrecy
Lipstick hidden under collars of button up shirts
I guess that it’s not for me
I’m not the type of girl you take through the backstreets
How fast can this car go
I’m all dressed up with no place to go
I know
It’s too hard to handle me
I’m not the type of girl who sits in the backseat
So go ahead
Burn rubber off into the horizon
100 miles an hour
But i know you’ll be back here again
Drive all night until the headlights burn out
Remember who you left when you’re coming back around
This summer feels like it’ll never end
And again
I need you like a drunk girl needs fun
The joke is i am and there’s still none
We drove without our seatbelts on
Smoking out of the window staying up till dawn
And I know I’m the last thing on your mind
And I know you’re with her, is she doing alright?
Does she know about last time, or the time before that?
I’m tearing up my mattress screaming
Go ahead
Burn rubber off into the horizon
100 miles an hour
But I know you’ll be back here again
Nights like this I wanna burn your house down
Remember who you lost when your empathy is found
This summer feels like it’ll never end
And again
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4. |
Pastime
02:18
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Call me just to pass the time
Keeping me around with your pretty lies
I'm your rose and honey
And you're my strawberry wine
I've been chasing butterflies
Waiting around just for the right time
it's deeper than the sea
Stronger than the twine
And when I, I was a child
They taught me how to colour in the lines
CHORUS:
You slipped me underneath your tongue
But when the winter came, we came undone
The spring should be here but it'll never come gain
And when I needed you, you just weren't there
But in the summer breeze we walked on air
Kiss me quick like a childhood dare again
I see your face in the downtown lights
Looking in train windows as they're passing by
You're everywhere I go
Woven through the night
And when I, I was a child
They taught me how to read between the lines
CHORUS
Call me just to pass the time
Keeping me around with your pretty lies
I'm your rose and honey
And you're my strawberry wine
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5. |
Evergreen
03:28
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Followed the telephone wires back to my heart
And evergreen, it brought me to you
Spent a lifetime with you before we were ripped apart
I missed you more than I ever knew
Couldn’t quite make it back to the island but I made it this far
Evergreen, is that enough for you?
Forgive the time it took to come through
CHORUS:
Evergreen, evergreen
Do you miss me as much as I miss you
Oh evergreen evergreen
Do you love me like I love you?
Strip me of my bark and mold me to your designs
Evergreen, I’ll be anything you want
I’ve been having dreams about you every night
Yearning for a time long gone
I left so many pieces of myself with you
And the water runs clear and the sky is so blue
And the cliff side waterfalls make me want to tip toe barefoot
Back through the moss to the holy place we once stood
CHORUS
It’s so hard to leave you again evergreen
And I know when I’m gone you’ll be waiting on me
In the meantime cherish the good times that we had
And I swear to you I’ll come to see you again
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6. |
Masterpiece
03:18
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I’m a guest in a place that used to feel like home
The doorway to that place will try but
It cannot close
I don’t know how you can be so cool and calm when I’m a mess
Don’t talk to me
About reality
I drank until the cup was empty
Then you left, left me
Alone to try and breathe
I don't know how to do that yet
Is that ash or snow
Are you burning or cold
I stood there frozen turned to solid gold
There's no closure, and something tells me that you know
I've wasted too much time on my rose
It hits in little bits and pieces that I lost my home
I burned until I was weak
Disintegrated at your feet
You watched me disintegrate at your feet
Don’t talk to me
About who I will be
You’re leaving before I’m ready
Now you’ve left, left me
Alone to learn to speak
I don’t know how to do that yet
Who do I go to when the person I go to is the reason I need to go to someone
I cried on the train
Realizing that we won’t speak again
I don’t want to start again
Please don’t make me start again
Please talk to me
The way we used to speak
All your words, they wrote a masterpiece
Then you left, left me
Alone to try and breathe
I don’t know how to do that yet
Please talk to me about reality
Please talk to me about who I will be
Please talk to me the way we used to speak
When you wrote a masterpiece
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8 years old on a family campout
Four blank cassette tapes and one plastic camera
I don’t remember where they went
Somewhere on a hiking trail in Oregon
They bought me mint chocolate ice cream
But it did nothing to improve my mood
I was such a miserable kid
I think it was the first time
I learned to play the G
They said we’re making memories
But I guess we never did
There was a man in a shack in the forest
Who once held a place of esteem and importance
But now he hides away from life
Collecting trash along the paths I used to hike
And found a plastic camera
Went into town to get the rolls exposed
He had nothing better to do
And plugged into his tapedeck
A mixtape recorded from radio
From a station that he never knew
Twenty years old full of hormones and pretence
At some gallery my friends said might be famous
Just there to make my presence known
When on the wall I see the ghost of Oregon
My parents’ smiling faces
Up in a touring attraction
“Found Objects Of The Pacific Northwest”
Hey buddy, who gave you the
Right to reappropriate
Oh, can’t you see
That bucktooth kid is me
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8. |
Porch Light
03:20
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Didn’t you read all the poetry I left for you?
Didn’t you find all my clues?
Everything to bring me back to you
But now you’re standing at my porch light and I don’t know what to do
I memorized your words cause they were all you left me
They’ve twisted into my everyday vocabulary
And I blew bubbles into the sky
Looked out car windows to the neon lights
I had no one to talk to but I made it out fine
CHORUS:
I’ve spent some years spinning through dance floors
And some crying alone, too
I’ve worked my ass off and still been poor
I’ve lived in other people’s living rooms
And you don’t know me anymore
You don’t know me anymore
But I still know you
I’m losing my mind just trying to find the words
To get inside your brain
Locked in a trunk hidden in my linen closet there a notebook detailing those snowy days
And it took so long to figure out just who I was without
The simple comfort of your conversation
Someone snap me out of this creative drought
CHORUS
Now I’m living a fairytale and I don’t know where to start
I’ve tried everything and I’ve worked so hard
And I would kill to know what went through your mind
Showing up in the middle of the night
To my flickering porch light
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9. |
Carousel
04:08
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There’s no shame
In leaving
Before the fun is over
Say goodbye at the door then call a cab
It’s always
The same thing
A slurring conversation
With the same ten people on the kitchen floor
Chorus:
I played the role of the wildcard and I played it well
I put those days behind me far as anybody could tell
Getting distracted by visions of my personal hell
Doing lines behind the dumpster at a shitty motel
I want off this carousel
I picked up
A six pack
Of non alcoholic beer
And god this stuff just doesn’t taste the same at all
My new friends
Play board games
They go to church on Sunday
I stay up chainsmoke til the break of dawn
Chorus
Do you not find this depressing
I have no way of expressing
Outfits in in the back of my closet that’ll never see the light of day
Work, dishes, commutes, and Netflix
All cold and sterile and sexless
Staring at myself in the mirror
Wondering if today’s finally the day
The day I become my mother
Drive away my friends and my lovers
Thought that I found myself
But really I just got stuck in ways
I’m cutting all of my hair off
Just hope my old dealer picks up
Watch me ruin my whole life
Give it all up to feel something again
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10. |
Froggyworm
01:34
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Just hopping along one afternoon
From lily pad to lily pad
Something caught my eye at the end of the lagoon
The bestest friend I ever had
He was wiggling around in the dirt
Getting poked at by a bird
But I hopped right over and said
Hey little worm do you want a friend
Oh no! The rain turned my friendly dirt all into mud
And I was wrigglin’ around when the bird came down
Peckin’ at me from above
But before it could drop I heard a mighty hop
And then to my surprise
It was a funny frog and before long
We were the closest of allies
And from here on out it’s froggyworm forever
Hoppin’ around, makin’ friends, just kinda doin whatever
And we’ll never have to fear
Because froggyworm is here
And it’s a funtime jamboree rainy day in the swamp!
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Magda Baker Vancouver, British Columbia
hi! my name is magda baker, and i'm a 21 year old, nonbinary singer/songwriter. i've been working on music for years and i'm so glad to be sharing it with you here! thank u for listening and supporting :)
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