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The Worst of All Lovers

by Merel & Tony

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1.
Weren't we just playing with some planks we threw them in the air an unintended boat fell together and then we couldn't do without this home made windshield and waterproof hideout But everything can be a cage every space can make us rage every person is a hurdle someday It looked bigger from the outside it seemed brighter in the magazine it sounded nicer in my head lighter in bed bigger from the outside Wasn't I just playing with some words I threw them in the air an unintended song came together and then I couldn't do without this waterfall of sound to spell it all out But everything can be a cage every space can make us rage every joy will feel like a duty someday It felt better from the inside it seemed deeper in my diary it sounded nicer in my head sweeter in bed better from the inside
2.
We were truffle dogs prize-winning lives sniffing for gold mining for diamonds then we were fireflies attracted to light burning our wings volunteer firefighters You’re no good for me but I adore your graceful way of hiding I’m no good for you but you fall for my quiet abiding We keep these bodies in the closet bodies in the water bodies on the floor on the bed up against the door your body in my head We are shingleback lizards living alone together through winter helter-skelter in order A silence that keeps us at this side of the doorstep cause god only knows what we’d do without bodies in the closet (you’re no good for me) bodies in the water bodies on the bed (you’re no good for me) on the floor up against the door your body in my head (you’re no good for me) We are the worst of all lovers except for all the others except for all the others
3.
Too Much 04:17
As we drove through the suburbs 
 I cringed while you wrung yourself out
 I was born a square peg but hoped by the end of that drive I’d be round 
and the space that I hold
 is as small as a thimble 
 as small as the thought 
 Weren’t we all born single 

 ‘cause you're too much for me
 I don’t have quite the ear
 to hear what’s inside of you
 ‘cause I'm too much for me too

 And you told me all the rules
 of making room for you:
 Don’t question Don’t judge Don't add
 Just completely empty your head 

 But you're too much for me 
I don’t have the stamina 
 to let you ruin my day 
‘cause I need it to ruin it my way 
On our way to your friends
 I cringed while you burst into tears 
Does my face look strange 
 now you cried off both my ears 

 The space that I hold 
is as small as a dime
 and sometimes I need to hear
 that bad old brain of mine You're too much for me
 I don’t have quite the ear
 to hear what’s inside of you
 ‘cause I'm too much for me too You're too much for me
 I don’t have the stamina 
 To let you ruin my day
 ‘cause I need it to ruin it my way I need it to ruin it my way
4.
In the jungle the indifferent jungle the symbolic jungle the metaphorical jungle the idea of a jungle there may or may not be a deeply a-sleeping lion there may or may not be one. but one thing is nearly sure: she does not know you exist. This beautiful cat this indifferent cat this symbolic cat this metaphorical cat is a perfect cat a perfect idea of a cat. And you never entered her mind and she does not understand the meaning of the hunter the position of the prey there is no equal footing the jungle is indifferent You can send her an email I think that her address is something dot in the jungle but this won’t really change things: she doesn’t read her emails and she does not know you exist. You never entered her mind and she does not understand. She doesn’t know you dreamed about her she doesn’t know both sides of the argument. She doesn’t have your logic or know that you were fighting she didn’t read the rules the rules that you were writing when you imagined yourself inside a jungle yourself imagining a beautiful cat a different cat an actual cat a perfect cat a perfect idea of some cat.
5.
Dunes 03:39
Change is a magical thing and still It brings along every everything it will. The hurricane it cleaves apart it cleaves apart the dune And everything changes every everything changes its tune. And it’s ok I think to really love some-thing or -one it’s ok. And when they change it’s fine I think to let them get away. A hurricane that cleaved apart it cleaved it clean apart And everything changed: the cleaving was the thing that changed your heart. The sea can change from restless to still and change from blue to black or soak into the sand. A hurricane can cleave the ground can upside down the land. Can bring a change a magical thing can cleave and shift and still Every every every everything that can: it will.

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released September 30, 2022

All songs written by Merel van Dijk and Anthony Barilla. Performed by Merel & Tony, except flute on 1 by Cathy Power; drums on 1, 3 & 4 by Bill Savoie; cello on 3, 4 & 5 by Kacee duGas; bass and organ on 3 by Chris Bakos; spoken voice on 1 by Monika Fejfer. Engineered, mixed, mastered and co-produced by Jeff McDonald. 2022 (p) Glitter Milk Records. (c) all rights reserved. Neck model: Erin Rodgers.

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