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Blessing​/​Curse

by Sleepy Kitty

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1.
It’s a blessing it’s a curse Take a look around it’s getting worse Better yet lets all forget about it anyway It’s a treat or it’s a trick Either way it’s politics If that’s what you said it’s not what you said to me yesterday I could never tell, I could never tell, I could never, I could never tell you just what it feels like to never know It doesn’t happen ever day if they let it happen anyway Try to change my mind You can take a moment still, you got time I could never tell, I could never, I could never tell you just what it feels like to never know I could never sleep I could never tell you just what it feels like to never know Keep on believing me that’s what they say Keep on bleeding me, it’s one more day
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Sometimes 03:34
3.
Alceste in Silverlake Alceste in Silverlake Alceste does it again Don’t burden me with gimmicks and your frontmen and flash Alceste does it again If you’re all show and no go I know we’re gonna clash Alceste does it again All you wanna be stars need not apply I’m not a dramatic guy It’s one more reason why this saves some time (He’s really busy) It saves you time (Like, busy busy) It saves me time I’ll probably run this ad forever Try to read before we get together My cat made me do it But we probably wouldn’t be a good fit. Alceste in Silverlake Alceste in Silverlake Alceste in Silverlake Alceste in Silverlake Alceste at it again I’m not one of these guys who drives out to Van Nuys Get a hired gun Don’t take it personally but I’m not the one Alceste say it again I’m the most direct guy in all of L.A. He just wanna play 98% won’t hear from me anyway,  I say what I think and I think what I say in Silverlake! “On est t’il bien dans le seicle nous sommes, non, elle est generale est je hais tous les hommes” Don’t make me move my car Don’t make me move my car Don’t make me move my car Don’t make me move my  Don’t make me move my It probably wouldn’t be a  good fit from the start Don’t make me move my car Don’t make me move my car Don’t plan to go too far No matter where you are, I like Silverlake I like Silverlake I like Silverlake It’s all right here in Silverlake I like Silverlake I like Silverlake I’m never leaving, I’m never leaving Silverlake Obsessed with  Alceste in Silverlake I’m never leaving, I’m never leaving Silverlake Don’t make me leave it, I’m never leaving Silverlake Obsessed with  Alceste in Silverlake I’m never leaving, I’m never leaving Silverlake I’d reconsider if we got a lucky break, but I’m probaby never I’m never leaving Silverlake
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I get another reason every day not to get a little closer, to go away People think I’m teasin’ but they’d be wrong so the only thing that I can do is move along You’ll have to do it without me You’ll have to do it without me this time You’ll have to do it without me You know, it isn’t hard to find out what I’m looking for If you could change my mind about what I knew before It isn’t hard How many times are you gonna sell me out and assume it’s fine? I’m from a completely different world than you and a different time You just keep on doing what you do, keep on looking right I just hope that everyone can see, at least tonight You’ll have to do it without me You’ll have to do it without me this time You’ll have to do it without me And I hope you won’t and I hope you don’t You know, it isn’t hard to find out what I’m looking for If you could change my mind about what I knew before I’d be a different person then and we’ll deal with that if/when What’s it gonna take? What’s it gonna take to catch this mistake? What’s it gonna take to catch this mistake in time? (Spoiler: they didn’t catch it!)
5.
So listen I just gotta say something. I gotta set the record straight. I mean, I’m totally fine with your decision and it actually works out great. But I just wanted to hang up so bad if I sounded a little nice. It’s just the kind of person I am, it’s almost a vice. But I get the feeling it’s not “time” it’s the fact that I can’t read your mind And I get the feeling it’s not me, it seems pretty consistent with the person you seem to be Ok so look, I didn’t know this was such a big deal. I was not trying to impose. I mean you asked me to be here so how the fuck was I supposed to know? But if you can’t handle it though, that’s totally fine. I totally get it, I just wanna get one thing straight, there won’t be a next time. Cause I get the feelin it’s just you They can’t pay me enough to be in that room I get the feelin it’s what you do and it’s just so pathetic that no one will mess with you. I got a feelin. I got a feelin and I think I’m right.
6.
It’s been going on for a year, and I think I gotta make it clear. We’ve been heading this way for some time but I think I gotta dry the line cause I don’t think that you can see the bigger picture. I don’t think that you can see the bigger picture that I’m right in the middle of. I don’t think you should take offense, we’re just living in the present tense. Not the first, it won’t be the last so I think we better just get past this cause I don’t think that you can see the bigger picture. I don’t think that you can see the bigger picture that I’m right in the middle of. We can talk about or we can never speak of it again, I don’t see a different outcome in the end, but let’s still be friends I don’t think that you can see the bigger picture. I don’t think that you can see the bigger picture that I’m right in the middle of.
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Poor Gilles 04:20
“There’s got to be a party, and it’s got to be true” and everyone wants to know, which one was you? Poor Gilles Did you actually say that to folks who loved you? What did you want instead? What did you do? Poor Gilles Everybody feels this way sometimes. Yeah, everybody feels this way sometimes but it never feels that way in your mind Did you ever see her ever again? She floated away but you think of her now and then. And would you want to ask her where she went that day? When you found that letter, what would it say? Poor Gilles, poor Gilles
8.
So this is it, that’s where it ends. Nothing much to lose, we weren’t really friends. Cut it off before it begins, it seems like everybody wins I’ve been thinking about it and what’s on the other side but I was outta my mind at the time, but at least it was something for something It’s so funny the things that you find out later, I was outta my mind, I was outta my mind at the time 2nd verse, it’s gotten worse. Hanging on the line to hear you say it first Note to self beware what you sign for all time throughout the universe I’ve been thinking about it and what’s on the other side I was outta my mind at the time, but at least it was something for something It’s so funny the things that you find out later, I was outta my mind, I was outta my mind at the time
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credits

released June 23, 2023

Produced by Sleepy Kitty, with Peter Larkin at the Lighthouse (1, 10) in Washington DC and Carter McKee (2-4, 6-9) at Suburban Pro in St. Louis MO. Tracks 5 & 11 recorded by Paige Brubeck at the Art Castle on Cherokee Street.

Thank you to Benjamin Schurr (bass, keys, bg vox and UFO on 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9,10), Matt Basler (vox on 3), and Julian Swartz (guitar and vox on 3). ©2021 Paige Brubeck and Rough Draughtsman.

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"Bright colorful and relatively analog, with leanings toward The Ramones or '60s girl groups if Brian Eno had taken up the production. Good fun!" – Bob Boilen, NPR

"Rainbow-tinged indie pop" – NYLON Magazine

“Like a grungier and more layered Best Coast” – Brooklyn Vegan

"For fans of Sleigh Bells — but sub in post-grunge jangle for noisecore." – Entertainment Weekly
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