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August

by Rose Polenzani

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1.
Blue Angel 04:06
No one would believe— I kept my love under lock & leaf. Always with the digs, you know I’m good for a joke at his expense. I tremble, I laugh you say I’m stubborn, but you don’t know the half. And I’m on my knees what I have wanted for so long… has come… to visit me blue angel didn’t you come to cover me A kiss, a caress every allowance in grace and in redress our arms were agree but I couldn’t tell if you felt for me or if you were just… a man in need blue angel didn’t you come to cover me somehow if I could take back every mean thing that I said by touching your skin this precious moment when she holds him it would probably be the happiest story that I could keep telling me blue angel blue angel blue angel blue angel
2.
once you kissed a roman nose, once you drew in dirty prose, once you fucked a red, red rose how shall I love thee when you have gone? a girl in solemn photograph, a girl who made you moan and laugh a girl who blamed herself for half pretend you never laid me down pretend you never kinged my crown pretend you never left this town a smile that launched a thousand smiles a mile became a hundred miles a pile of shit turned into piles
3.
Girl 02:47
girl you're a healer and I'm a big sore I'm a nine slash stitch and I don't want you no more you make me sick, you make me sad you're the best damn lover that I ever had-- except for the girl with the golden pliers, mamma se, mamma sa, mamma, hey hey except for the son who slips and sires, mamma se, mamma sa, mamma se, mamma sa, mamma, hey he girl, you're a dealer, I'm the cement floor you're the tracks on my body and I don't want you no more you make me happy, you make me high you slice me a piece of the apple pie-- but the cross-hatch crust your heart requires, mamma se, mamma sa, mamma, hey hey is the last temptation of the humble prior, mamma se, mamma sa, mamma se, mamma sa, mamma, hey he ahhhhh nobody knows me, no no, ahhhhh nobody hearts me, no heart no heart ahhhhh no heart no heart yeah yeah girl you're a kneeler and I wax your floor you're a real believer and I don't want you no more you make me hate you when you lock your jaw you're the worst damn liar that I ever saw-- except for the lover I left on the train mamma se, mamma sa, mamma, hey heyexcept for the love I pushed off the plain mamma se, mamma sa, mamma se, mamma sa, mamma, hey he
4.
I think I'll wait a little while before I let him out it seems like it's the only time to myself in the house with my private thoughts like igneus rocks hardened at my feet if I can't make a safe place, I'll just pack the rolling suitcase of my love of my love of my love it's 6 am and the birds are yellin' impatient for the day and I'm like them I set you free just to get it out the way see I've been feeling guilty as a cat and I want to show you the human in me
5.
these fieldish flowers that I bring to you, and rare coins to fill the vase these stones that are smoothed by diaphanous lakes - let's lay them down together these fiendish proverbs that I read to you and fair poems to speed the pace of a heart that would do whatever it takes - let's do it now together and these hands move over me and these hands move me these fetal vowers that I bear for you parading your perpetual face, this population that ecstasy makes - let's make it now together love is supposed to be outrageous girls and boys they're supposed to be courageous heaven help me stroke my baby cocooned in his cornsilk sepal chaste and chaser, guilt and gracer love is supposed to be outrageous these pleasing hours that I steal from you, and briar roses to slow the chase of a word that would give my lover the shakes - let's shake it out together
6.
The first time I heard those words a candlelit hall for a secret girl I trembled to become a caged bird the first time I heard those words The first time I saw your face, an elderly woman turned around in her place she held out a hand for the light to shake the first time I saw your face but I don't know you I don't know you I don't know The first time I spoke your name, you were a character in an exhaustible play the imagined master of human game the first time I spoke your name and the first time I sang your verse it was larger than my tongue and so it slurred I couldn't remember who it served the first time I sang your verse no I don't sing it right I don't sing it right I don't sing the first time you called my name it wasn't the one that my friends all say I guess that my name is your name I guess that my new name is your name I guess that my name is your name But I don't know my name I don't know my name I don't know
7.
you used to ease my mind you used to let me rest my head on your love you used to hold me tight you used to let me struggle against your love but now I just break free and I fall wherever my heart is weak
8.
Explain it to me I want to understand when you say he's the way I gave up on my soul as lost twist and toss pentecost I'll never get sick I'll never get tired of hearing it, tell me again, he's my friend his bright prospect and talent shine on the line he gave it to me he paid it for me
9.
10.
Married Man 04:25
I'll be okay sleeping all day H-U-G-K-I-S-S hop on a new train and don't bother with the mess white satin gown pink pearly clown H-U-G-K-I-S-S hop on a new train and don't bother with the dress I don't want to be with a married man plastic wheels on the baby pram maybe that's just the way I am eighteen wheels on an old tin can are you pulling me leg? why make me beg? H-U-G-K-I-S-S hop on a new train, 'cause love isn't like this put the little boy on the pony ride if you wanna get the cracker jack prize inside do you think I'm gonna let it slide the law is on my side softly I sigh: 'live free or die'
11.
Hardest Hurt 03:07
use a gentle word try to say it nicely only want to use words that will reflect you I only want the truth spoken at a tender price only want to stop stop before I hurt you stop before the false witness is upon us settled like a frost lacing up a tender crop don't ask me to feel more than what I know is real have a little hope I don't want to make you anybody's joke something bigger than your trust in me is broken if you don't believe me it's a bitter road if you really know me like you like to say wouldn't it be easy to walk the other way or show me some forgiveness don't ask me to keep coming back only to leave the hardest hurt you speak in the harshest voice the hardest heart is making the hardest choice don't ask me to leave if I say your name if I call you by the secret one we made, would you stop and listen would you see yourself see you in my loving eyes don't ask me to see someone I don't know you to be
12.
Sometimes 04:28
sometimes she says 'I don't believe that anyone will love me.' sometimes she says 'I don't receive the letters that you write me. sometimes I fall awake like others fall asleep.' sometimes she says 'I want to feel the love of God who made me.' sometimes she says 'I want to speak the language of the ladies. sometimes I go away when others go to sleep.' sometimes she says 'I want to kneel before the one who saved me.' sometimes she says 'I want to keep the loneliness that made me. sometimes I start my day as others start to sleep.'

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recorded and mixed by rose in her room using Tascan 4-track and 8-track machines

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released August 1, 2004

Mastered by Nick Joyce at NP studios in South Weymoth, MA. Artwork by Jeff Krueger. Featuring one cover song, "Easter Hymn," by Josh Cole

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