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~TENTACLES~

by Robot Princess

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1.
Claudia 03:51
claudia wouldn't leave her bed last year 
she said "if you only understood just how much i hate it here" then you'd stay quiet waste my money just don't waste my time
 spike-heeled, resurrected, and steppin' out over the line
 it's cool, just try it
 why did you wait so long to tell me
 now that you told me will you tell me again 
why did you wait so long to tell me 
you were the best babysitter ever but everything ends claudia's skinny and she's losing weight 
we've already been to every single thrift store in the entire state so what's left to look at high-top sneakers and your shirt's untucked 
the thing that no one understands is that i actually do give a fuck
 it just gets took back why did you wait so long to tell me
 so long to tell me how it is 
why did you wait so long to tell me 
she said "all i want to do is not do this"
 throw out that necklace that he gave you 
fashion accessories won't save you i really like you when you're not too stoned 
i like to spend the spend the day by myself but i hate sleeping alone 
i know you don't believe it
 so stay awake another hour or so
 everything stops for you and i'll kill cops for you 
for real, i mean it why did you wait so long to tell me 
now that you told me will you tell me again why did you wait so long to tell me 
you were the best babysitter ever but everything ends
2.
you painted pictures of my x-rays off the acetates 
instead of canvas you were using photographic plates 
as a kid you thought that drugs were scary
 now you get high in the cemetery 
your parents came and got you when you joined the cult 
but if we can't make bad decisions, how'll we learn to be adults 
that was the worst mother's day ever 
teenage widow, we can hang out whenever
 you're a five-time champion at letting people go 
already halfway through the winter, you're still starving for snow
 you could make me millions of mixtapes 
but don't do it just to make up for mistakes got picked up smoking on the corner spent the night in jail 
we all used to call you abby, now you're abigail
 spent seven nights on seven couches 
with backpacks like kangaroo pouches 
you went to the optometrist he fixed your sight 
and once again you swear that next month you'll start eating right i know it's hard in your mid-twenties 
teenage widow, sometimes you act so ugly now it feels like there's an asteroid approaching the sun 
something so crazy had to happen, you were still so young 
you could make me millions of mixtapes 
but don't do it just to make up for mistakes now you're terrorizing motorists from coast to coast 
you said you used to do but now you don't believe in ghosts 
you stand there with your skirt and tights on 
do you still sleep with the lights on 
when we go back to long island nothing's there anymore 
not the photo place, the slot car track, the video store 
but it doesn't really matter 
teenage widow, you could be so much sadder

3.
K Mary 04:05
put the scissors down 
i know this garbage life ain't fair but 
you're not gon fix it with a haircut 
it'll turn around
 so let's just fold some paper airplanes 
come on mary don't you dare change
 let's go down the waterslide i'll meet you on the other side 
sometimes i feel like time and space are going to collide and if you stay right here
 then on day your friends stop fighting
 and all your ghosts get struck by lightning 
you can disappear
 with the lights out i still see you 
you're glowing in the dark, you're see-through let's go down the waterslide i'll meet you on the other side 
sometimes i feel like time and space are going to collide oh, oh, oh! k-mary
 you said you'd come around 
when will you come around 
oh, oh, oh! i'm sorry
 you know that silence 
is just a shitty sound no footsteps that you're following 
every day's like halloween 
it takes so much to just be doing your own thing telekinetic hyperlink
 your heart pumps my blood i think 
it takes so much to just be here on your own thing i'll be here on the other side come meet me when you feel alright 
sometimes i feel like time and space are going to collide
 oh, oh, oh! k-mary 
you said you'd come around
 when will you come around oh, oh, oh! i'm sorry 
if you want silence
 then i can quiet down
4.
Architeuthis 03:37
i bought a little boat and i paddled out to sea 
weights sewn into the lining of my coat
 and i will swim so deep
 and my lungs are filled with air
 saltwater knots in my hair 
you will not get away from me i untangled my neck tie
 and i kicked off my shoes 
i lost my blazer in the riptide 
my best navy blue 
worked the buttons on my shirt 
let it float up to the surface 
while i swim downwards after you now i'm swimming in the trench 
my blood is starting to freeze 
and i will prolly freeze to death 
down there there's no sunlight to see 
water changed to black from blue
 but blindly groping, i will find you 
down there at the bottom, you and me i swear to god i'm gonna catch you 
i've already come so far 
and in one second i will touch you
 and you will hold me with your arms 
and if you hold me tight 
i won't struggle or fight 
just pull me closer, pull me down so far until i see bioluminescent stars shine all around me
 my reflection in your eye, your tentacles surround me 
pull me towards your hungry center, nothing now can stop me
 seven hundred fathoms down, i'm drowning in your body
5.
White Noise 03:16
goodbye again, quick to depend 
to feed, to kill a feeling
 you're not a friend 
we're shaking at the knees, fight to please
 if you go out dancing i told them i was homeless 
help me, i'm a sure thing, it's your game that's shameless
 you've got yourself nothing 
it's all white noise they talk back 
help me, i'm a sure thing
 won't you ask them
 to keep track again
 and i can help you 
but i don't want to
6.
4 Blue 03:27
if you were a zombie 
i would let you eat my brains 
and the leftovers i'd wrap in cellophane 
save them for the weekend, sunday suppertime
 when the trees whisper in the rain
 if i was a gangster 
i would never have you whacked 
even if my consigliere said "attack" 
we could get that old projector out of the box
 you could watch those movies on my back sails in the distance
s scientists in search 
they don't know and they cannot be warned 
there's no mermaids in the bay 
'cause they all swam away
 on the day you were born i can't solve the riddle 
no matter how i try 
the answer is written in my eye
 the sphinx looks very happy but you never hear him talk 
i think he wants to go for a walk spaceships in the distance 
scientists in search
 they don't know and they cannot be warned
 there's no martians to x-ray 
'cause they all flew away 
on the day you were born
7.
Neon Ocean 01:57
i was gonna go outside and hang out with my friends 
you were gonna telephone the bad news man again
 i didn't know her well, but her wizard's robe was blue 
i really made a mess of things, couldn't have done it without you i swam in the neon ocean 
you flipped over your sister's car
 it's three o'clock where i am 
it's midnight where you are i woke up with crystal prisms growing on my face
 you're just like a human being crossed with a vacant space rocket valley, trap door tripped, blueprint redrawn 
i really really hope you think about me when you're gone
8.
Tentacles 04:43
there's a squid wrapped round your arm
 as you pace 'round the hotel room 
there's no batteries in the smoke alarm 
i checked but i don't think i'm going to tell you 
temporary tattoos of tentacles all on your neck and back 
i won't ask, but they must mean something
 it's january, and everyone left here right after the holidays
 so now it's just you and me slumming there's a squid wrapped round your arm
 as you lay there by the ocean 
if you give me the keys to the rental car 
i'll go out for cigarettes and calamine lotion 
two more hours, i've never seen you so tan in my life before 
you could take a nap and i'll go out running 
then we can shower, how many times in my life will i have to say 
"girl, you should eat something" i go up to the room 
i double-lock the door
 change the password on my phone 
i don't trust you anymore 
i don't know what to expect 
i don't know what happens next 
but i'm waiting...
 you can have it all 
just not all at once

about

all songs written and arranged by Robot Princess
except track 5 “White Noise”
written by Catherine Anderson
and track 6 “4 Blue”
written by Mike Shoykhet

credits

released November 11, 2016

Beau Alessi - guitar, vocals
Catherine Anderson - keytar, vocals
Peter Ingles - drums
Chris Cumming - bass

all of these songs also feature our friend James Bannon on guitar

produced, recorded, and mixed by
Travis Harrison
at Serious Business Music, NYC

mastered by Jamal Ruhe
at West West Side Music

album art by Em Scott

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