Wear The Gown

by Cherry Pit

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stare into the middle distance with me 04:49
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Heaven or Hospital 05:15
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turn the power on i've been waiting all year long stench of hospital perfume fills the airwaves of the room brought back to life call it a sickness of the mind brought back to life and the life i leave behind (scalpel? ready doctor.) and the biggest decision will you make the incision? carve the flesh right off the bone are you in prison or at home? brought back to life call it a sickness so divine brought back to life and the body i leave behind
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Disco Death Squad 03:00
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confetti, canonized all these balloons are filled with blood you love this life you love this life built on bones and bulldozed homes it's violent it's a party the music is far too loud pearlescent masks in the cask drink it in, waged in sin these vermin starve at your feet sweep it up, like a plague it's silent it's a funeral you're not there when the bombs go off
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Homemade Graveyard 01:45
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we're all buried in a homemade graveyard i don't want to die in this terrorist hell i want to go home, wherever that is wouldn't that be swell? shoot me, silence me i'm the real enemy burn all the commies well wash me in flames we're all buried in a homemade graveyard where no one learns their history birth of a nation, bathed in white glow where'd radical reconstruction go? shoot me, silence me the people are your enemy no interest in our interests why should we invest?
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mood swings (interlude) 01:32
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Destroy Almost Everything 02:41
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i can't i will destroy almost everything i can't i will destroy you it's cyclical, it never ends you make me so sick a taste i can't swallow i told you we first met i'd be buried in my wedding dress call me a prophet call me tonight it's cyclical, it never ends you make me so sick a taste i can't swallow i don't wanna destroy both of us there's no other way out i don't wanna destroy both of us can't, but i will (i can't think, i can't breathe i can't even close my eyes to dream starve you right out of me if i knew what else to eat) i don't want to destroy both of us.
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Hysterical 04:15
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hands tangled in hair head down, i don't really care oh we've come so far, huh? we've come so far booze on his breath, specter like death paid tv spots, burned by his cigarettes even when he's not here, his eyes still are isn't it hysterical? they say you're hysterical laugh til the tears roll down it's a witch trial you wear the gown paid television interviews give me a break, it's all for views "look at how she never cries" (proof in my mind that it's all lies) everyone can hear her through those paper thin walls isn't it hysterical? they say you're hysterical laugh til the tears roll down it's a witch trial you wear the gown no sirens will ever light the hotel halls makeup covers the stains left by your hands as you wash it all down the drain isn't it hysterical? they say you're hysterical laugh til the tears roll down it's a witch trial you wear the gown
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Paranoid 04:21
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paranoia seeps in through the stars like sand in an hourglass pillbox teeth and liquor tongue climb the ladder, lose the rung my yarn ball mind is losing the thread memorize how to deal with the dead starving, scratching like a hungry ghost i'm rotting faster than it can wake it's dark and it's loud if only i knew what i knew now cuz it's dark and there's mold and a thousand little pins that prick thousands of holes i caught this bug tied to the web i'll smoke it right out of my head pesticide virtue only goes so far rented out lungs like a killing jar as they eat away at the corner vision beady little termites, nuclear fision like surgeons in the veins of my foundation eating away, no sign of satiation it's dark and it's cold and i'm losing my hold it's dark and there's mold and a thousand little pins prick thousands of holes it's been this way since i was a kid when the lights out i always hid monsters lurk in windows just out of sight can you prove to me i'll make it out alive? no you can't. you can't fucking see. cuz it's dark
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late nights (interlude) 01:32
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10.
Baby Doll 02:36
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baby doll, you're made of wax when you're dropped, you show the cracks oh my girl, you're all that's left without you, i'm lost, bereft such a fairy tale what a mannequin no room to fail such a darling isn't daddy proud of what he reanimated? isn't mommy proud of what she created? isn't baby so proud she's dressed up right? organs cut out to make room for the power supply such a fairy tale what a mannequin no room to fail such a darling
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Siren Song 02:52
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between a rock and a hard place scylla and charybdis you're a rare one one in a billion i wanna go home but i don't know where that is lay me down, let me go lay me down, let me go float me ashore i'm so sure the siren song drew me closer and further away i'm treading in these waves did you know you could bite off your thumb? well that's what it feels like won't make a decision until my life depends cuz the world ain't ending but it feels like it oh we love, we love to catastrophize lay me down, let me go lay me down, let me go float me ashore i'm so sure the siren song drew me closer and further away i'm treading in these waves float me ashore i'm so sure i'm treading water it's getting hotter and hotter
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for and about (interlude) 02:24
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Back To Eden 04:40
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you never broke my heart i just broke my own you were simply there to watch the floor corrode in that moment i fall i can finally see the stars heaven looks beautiful from up here even in heaven there are labor strikes never believed in hell, i made it for myself at night and from that tiny room, i see through the stars and dream take me back to eden before it all take me back to eden away from everything i never left the east coast virginia has me by the throat i never related to icarus i was scared of heights, now i'm flying high heaven looks beautiful from up here even in heaven there are labor strikes never believed in hell, i made it for myself at night and from that tiny room, i see through the stars and dream take me back to eden before it all take me back to eden away from everything heaven is a tool of man there is no messiah, so we just have to save ourselves

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thanks to my parents, for raising me and backing up my love of music, my sibling jack for letting me use their copy of FL studio, to April for being my musical co-conspirator, every musician that inspired my work, and every musician that inspired them
and to yves, for being an incredibly and supportive partner. thank you for holding me up, for loving me, for talking things through with me, and the endless reassurance. this album wouldn't exist without you all.

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released January 15, 2023

natalie pit - guitar, vox, bass, synth, drum programming, mixing, mastering
april oxford - additional vox on track 6
album art - frankie

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Cherry Pit Richmond, Virginia

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i write songs about ghosts, girls, and politics

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