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Nowhere Girl
06:16
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Where have you gone?
It really hasn’t been so long
You seemed so lost
But being found really wasn’t your thing
You didn’t care
About what they all thought of you
Your one track mind
Steamrolling right on through the century
Nowhere Girl
They made you promise you'd get
somewhere girl
but if you're honest it’s been no fair girl
I’m a little bit jealous and a little relieved
I’ve got nothing in common with you anymore
Nihilism is cool when it’s in poetry
But for you it meant living catastrophe
How’d you survive?
When your goal wasn’t to stay
Alive but to die
Just like one more spirit in the sky. Spirit in the sky spirit in the sky
A different version
Fragile and a bit cracked in some spots
But worth her weight in gold
Extraordinary broke the mold
Looking at old photographs
You looked so cool Posing like an ingenue
Its kind of Hard
to believe that girl really was you
They made you promise you'd get
somewhere girl
but if you're honest it’s been no fair girl
I’m a little bit sad and kind of melancholy
Cause I’ve got nothing in common with you anymore
furious cuz nothing was ever what you wanted it to be
all that’s left now are a few crazy memories
Where have you gone?
It really hasn’t been so long
You seemed so lost
But being found really wasn’t your thing
Something fun, which I wasn't made aware of until AFTER we wrote this:
"'Nowhere girls' or 'Mei Nu' (Chinese: 沒女) is a neologism coined to describe women who have no money, no job, no education, no prospects, no looks, no friends and no sophistication.
The term is used to characterise those women who refuse to conform to male expectations and are therefore thought to be unattractive by men, and has strong pejorative connotations.
In the Chinese reality show 'Nowhere Girls', women are called 'nowhere girls' because they are lazy, selfish, short-tempered, rude to others, unfashionable and self-deluded."
Here's to all the Nowhere Girls out there!
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2. |
No One
04:16
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Why not one-up that stratagem,
With an elaborate subterfuge.
I love a good lackey
I wanna be your stooge
Be your stooge
Your pithy remarks
Made me itchy to boot
I didn’t want to hear them no
I didn’t want to hear you
Then I casually noted
As you walked into the room
A deliberate assertion that
I meant nothing to you
Come back to the five and dime
Come back come back come back back to the zoo
I’ve got money to burn got money to burn
I’ve got nothing else to do
Why not give me your religion
Why not baptize me in the name of you
Why not teach me something new
Why not briefly clarify, and decipher
Your feigned indifference
I can give the cold shoulder too
The words I might have said to you.
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3. |
Curious Tourist
04:49
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You you you
I thought i was through
But this sticky affection
makes everything new
Unfamiliar and alien
Like a curious tourist
I wander around
Hoping to catch
A glimpse
Lost and disoriented
Like a spurious juvenile
Peregrine again
Looking for the space where you were.
I tried to breathe it all in
I tried to catch your infection
Waiting for you
In the waiting room
Those germs they just wouldn’t stick
I wander around hoping to catch a glimpse
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4. |
Super
03:16
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I’m feeling super today
But sorry i’m never gonna like the band suede
I’m feeling happy, and old
Don’t think i’m ever gonna get more bold
Than i’m acting, right now
This is as good as it gets and how
This is a pop song,
It’s a joke
And it’s all much funnier than i ever hoped
Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
Mood swings a bitch
My birth was a glitch
But here I am
Until i can go
Back in time
Here i’ll stay and here i’ll be
And i’ll be just fine.
You want a slogan you say
Death to uncertainty Medicates the mind away
With just these two words I believe
You’ll have all the answers that you’ll ever need
Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
i still have questions And complaints
Who are the sinners, and just who are the saints?
Yes it’s a pop song, It’s a joke
And it’s all much funnier than i ever hoped
Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
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5. |
Ordinary Face
03:39
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behind an ordinary face
The kind that doesn’t mind
The kind that doesn’t complain, doesn’t grumble
You’re just an ordinary girl
The kind that’s overlooked
The kind that looks away, tries not to stumble.
Will you find, a different place
Will you find, a better way to be?
Will you find
behind an ordinary face
With workaday routines,
Accustomed to the simple and familiar
You’re just an ordinary boy
The kind that’s overlooked
The kind that shys away, tries to be humble.
Will you find, a different place
Will you find, a better way to be?
Will you find
average joe, plain jane, they feel something they can’t call, can’t cry or complain, no ones listening anyway
behind an ordinary face
The kind that doesn’t mind
The kind that doesn’t complain, doesn’t grumble
You’re just an ordinary girl
The kind that’s overlooked
The kind that looks away, tries not to stumble.
Will you find, a different place
Will you find, a better way to be?
Will you find
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6. |
Social Climber
04:37
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I remember hanging out with your friends
And I didn’t want to be there at all
You made fun of the city where I was born
And my predilection for the dollar store.
Everyone’s glances said “inferior”
to my thrift shop exterior.
They all acted so superior
Now their lives are so much drearier, than mine.
You told me to get a real job
You didn’t care i just wanted to sing
All you cared about was how everything looked
All i cared about was how you looked to me.
So so very hypocritical, Social climber, You’re so Typical
Looking down on me, Now look at you
I’m tempted to say some things but I won’t.
Can’t stop climbing, now your time is almost up
You’ve made it clear, there’s no one here
Who makes you feel enough, of a big deal
The way you’re meant to feel
Everyone’s glances said “inferior”
to my thrift shop exterior.
They all acted so superior
Now their lives are so much drearier, than mine.
Then you wonder, Why i don’t return calls
Now you are the one, That I think is small
I learned everything that I know, From you
Guess what Now I’m a social climber too
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7. |
Wish
04:13
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You never thought i would notice you, You were right I was too busy running away
When you stopped me in the street, All i thought about was the dress i was wearing
And how I looked that day.
You’re my, Biggest regret
So high I, I Don’t want to come down yet
I tried, To make my mind forget
But those eyes, I’m just not ready yet
You never really thought it was going to happen, cause it isn’t your style to be sad
I can only imagine what goes on in your head, You give it all, then you give more
You’re my, Biggest regret
So high I, Don’t want to come down yet
I tried, To make my mind forget
But those eyes, I’m just not ready yet
now i’m the one hoping that we’ll meet, I am the one that is now looking out for you
And if I don’t ever see you again, I only have myself to blame
You’re my, Biggest regret, So high, I Don’t want to come down yet
I tried, To make my mind forget, But those eye, I’m just not ready yet
Break right in i’m not ready yet, i’m not ready yet, I’m not ready.
The look you gave me, That i missed, Can i have it back? The same street under my feet
Can i retrace my steps Can i capture you Frozen in time, From all those years that have gone by
You’re my, Biggest regret
So high, Don’t want to come down yet
I tried, To make my mind forget
But those eyes I’m just not ready yet
those eyes I’m just not ready yet
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8. |
All's Fair in War
04:51
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9. |
Duras
04:41
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I tried to like that song
But I couldn’t sing along
Maybe I would have liked it
When i was young
Why is it that we change
And where do our younger selves hide
Undomesticated and brave
We were so hungry
Why do we trade the new
For lists of things to do
Is it true
That they don’t write them
Like they used to?
Faded photographs
Of a band that you used to like
They’ve long since broken up
But for you, these photographs are new
Time stands still In color
and in black and white
Eternally captured
Hazy images Wild nights
Trying to catch a glimpse
Of something left behind
A knowing glance
An unhinged smile
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Leah Callahan
Known for experimental pioneers Turkish Delight US, critics’ darling Betwixt, and shoegazers The Glass Set, singer-
songwriter Leah Callahan navigates between pop and art-rock on her 2023 album Cut-Ups, which charted in the top 200 on North American college radio NACC200.
Callahan's next album "Curious Tourist" is set to release April 29, 2024.
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"An essential listen, of that there’s no doubt" Louder Than War
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by Turkish Delight
"If you love the dissonance of Sonic Youth and the aggressive drive of the Dead Kennedys you should give this a try." Dirk Radloff
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