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Exquisite Details

by Merel & Tony

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1.
The Idiot 05:46
If you take a number A And add it to a B You know what you will get. The world's a logical place. And I was always A of course. And sometimes you were B. In a hat and gloves of course. The world's a logical place. But I'm learning how to be an idiot now. O just come right out. Come right out and say it. If we subtract the me from you And the places where we live Who will take, and what's to give? The world's alogical. I was always bad at math. but this is something worse When you hold me in your arms Can I hold you in reserve? I must be learning how to be an idiot now. O just come right out. We never added up. O just come right out. Come right out and say it.
2.
River of You 02:36
Things don't change but they change too fast. Nothing but nothing might never last. A river of you might be flowing past but that doesn't move me. Let's get tattoos to remind us of something we honestly used to love. Your naked skin should have been enough but that doesn't move me. I'm going to stand right here until I get the answer I want. I'm going to shut my eyes until I get the answer I want. Inside of me there's an abandoned cathedral. Somewhere inside is an empty ruin. We can make it echo but that's all we're doin' and that doesn't move me. Let's try something we never tried A conversation like a river too wide A road that splits at the other side Who knows if it'll move me I'm going to stand right here until I get the answer I want. I'm going to shut my eyes until I get the answer I want. Che bella la barca, quando sei in mezzo al mare, non te ne frega piú niente manc’atté. Se non te ne frega atté delle cose tue, ma figurati quanto gliene frega agli altri. I'm going to stand right here/ Things don't change until I get an answer / They go right through me. I'm going to shut my eyes / Things don't change but they change too fast until I get the answer I want / Until you move me I'm going to stand right here Until you move me / You. Move. Me.
3.
Last weekend you ran out of stories to tell. No one can light up a birthday or brighten up a bar night like you. This evening you are shaving your legs, picking your clothes. Ready to take a plane, and let your heart blow up in your face. How we all love to hear a good story. Everybody knows the characters you have to make them suffer. How we all love to hear a good story. A picture of a cut on your chin, a half grin. You're on a ferryboat A night ahead on a big black sea. Looking for a stranger to meet, a code to crack. A little dot on the map, a bird you heaven't heard about yet. How we all love to hear a good story. Everybody knows the characters you have to make them suffer. How we all love to hear a good story. Oh you're a writer. And someone will laugh about this later. Someone will
4.
For You 02:51
For you I'm saving my disappointments for you. Counting and numbering them with an archivist's fervor With a jeweler's precision I'm shaping them into charms. That I'll hang around my neck. Like some kind of life preserver. A life I'm saving. of pitiful craving. For you I'm saving my disappointments for you. With a deathbed doctor's dispassion I'm saving my disappointments to fashion some kind of fisherman's net. Look long enough and you'll get what you're looking for. And not even a tiny bit more, like a widow who survived the war on scraps that she can't stop saving even now that the peace is raging I'm saving them for you. I'm saving them for you. And with a midwife's gentle strength I'm holding my disappointments close. Sometimes taking them out for a walk in the sun I want you to see. I want everyone to know what I'm saving. For you.
5.
Tongue 03:14
When people say “motivated” I'm never sure what they mean. It sounds like a seed took root somewhere inside their head and grows there whether or not they want it to. It sounds like a spinning wheel's connected to your legs, your arms, your eyes, your tongue and all the rest of you. Whenever I say “driven” I'm never sure who is driving. Sounds like my heart's been keeping secrets from you and me about just who she sees in her spare time. Or my mind is of two minds and those minds they have two more and no one can exactly tell who any of them are working for. When people say “desire” I'm never sure what they mean. It seems like I was born speaking a foreign tongue. It seems like I received a modest education. It seems like things work out for the best except they don't. It seems like I didn't get what I wanted for a present. It seems like something's missing and something's always missing. It seems like everyone else is somewhere having fun. And it seems like I was born speaking a foreign tongue.
6.
The Minimum 03:28
Give me just enough to live on feed me just enough to keep me hungry Don't quite keep me warm keep me safe, keep me hopeful but give me just enough to live on because the minimum of you is enough. Keep the necessary and the rest for yourself. The minimum of you is enough. Who owns this dirty cracked pavement? Who owns this mattress of soft wet leaves? Who owns this variation on four walls and a roof and who has the proof they deserve to own what they do and who owns the minimum of you. Give me someplace to sleep but don't give me anything that you need to keep I'll take what i find I'll never you mind your leftovers, your castoffs your remains. O the minimum of you is enough. Keep the necessary and the rest for yourself. The minimum of you is enough.
7.
Gravity 05:17
Where were you those days, those months – where were you. Sometimes you're a soap bubble and sometimes I am too breakable and self-contained but only till you're not and sometimes you're the only gravity I've got Dress yourself in black and white, call yourself a spirit. Sing along with ghosts, and be the only one to hear it. The earth is cold, until your feet are nearby firmly on it and then you make the only gravity I've wanted. sometimes you're the only gravity Everyone is spinning and not just here tonight being pulled to pieces shot through with waves of light. Your pull is small but still it does remind me that i'm living and grounds me in the world-making gravity you're giving. sometimes you're the only gravity

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released December 4, 2020

All songs written by Merel & Tony
Performed by Merel & Tony except
Chris Bakos: bass guitar on 1, 2 & 3, guitar on 2 & 3, upright bass on 6
Bill Savoie: drums on 3, 5 & 7
Cathy Power: celesta on 2, marimba on 2, 6 & 7
Sarah Reid: violin on 4 & 7
Kacee Dugas: cello on 2, 6 & 7
Marta Santostasi: guest vocals on 2
and Jeff McDonald: additional synths and beats on 3, 5, 6 & 7

Produced by Merel & Tony and Jeff McDonald
Engineered by Jeff McDonald
2020 ℗ Glitter Milk Records

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