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by natti vogel

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1.
gold seed 03:10
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I will eye the artificial light for a little longer Trade my life for the profiles of the rich and stronger What if we rely in these end times on a little songbird Well I could try but I can’t lie that the chatter’s louder I’d bet the world you’ve got something in you something better Cuz My light is dying every day Dying every day hey Every single day yeah My life is slipping away Every single day day Slipping away My light is dying every day Dying every day day Every single day Baby just try to be good to me And we’ll see if that golden seed can get a ray See if this seed seed can get a ray ray This is a hell of sparkly spells cast in pantomimes And If I’ve felt it than you’ve felt it bout a hundred times We pledge to turn the gladiator’s pit into a paradise But the blood is bright and smells so right so we sit hypnotized I’d bet the world we’ve got something in us Something better Cuz My light is dying every day Dying every day Every single day yeah My life is slipping away Every single day day Slipping away My light is dying every day Dying every day day Every single day yeah Baby just try to be good to me And we’ll see if that golden seed can get a ray See if this seed seed can get a ray ray
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hermit 02:00
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why do i have to be the one singing in the dark while you go out dancing? why do i have to be the one to forgive and forget while you can pretend like nothing had happened? well, don't you think i wish i were dancing? don't you think i wish that nothing had happened? well it happened now i am a lonely, cold ogre, don't believe in love, always look over my shoulder. lost, i must haunt these salty streets sober screaming my songs to whoever listens i forgot that i loved you i chose to love you i loved you i chose to love you do you still get scared of the dark, my love? i don't get scared of the dark anymore.
3.
rainwater 01:42
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I don't believe in romance Unless somebody other than you or I does the dishes and the laundry Your thigh-vines climbed high on my waist in the crying sky at the 3am soho ghost fair I've got to call the management to call the roofer to fix the whole hole he says he fixed five times but it would seem he has not because I thought to sit down at the piano at the thought of passion for you but the bass octaves were covered in rainwater I don't believe in romance But I'd like to file for a visa to the notion
4.
legitimate bodies 04:01
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Saw your face in a constellation Love, it was such a good dream I had to savor it for just a moment, the taste of you becoming a legitimate body Hallelujah salam malaykum! I’m in love with the wrong man You in corduroys on Elizabeth Street Kissing me in the moonlight right by the house I told you I’d buy Several years before I built a legitimate body that we always had some kind of fraught relationship with You’re in love with the wrong man I’m on a billboard watching over you Reading the blacklist news You’re in the ozone bearing down us Catching the wide-eyed blues CHORUS Love we don’t need to be alone It’s like we’re in the backseat watching it all burn down Love we don’t need to fall in line We could be singing at the top of our lungs Watching em all come alive We’re in love with the wrong man Felt a tinge of indignation When I was four years old and first learned I was birthed of a nation In what my parents told me would pass for a legitimate body That looks quite like the ones who raped this earth You’re in love with the wrong man You’re in the city looking down on me Catching the busstop blues I’m in the endzone getting over us Burning the blue-eyed news CHORUS Love we don’t need to be alone It’s like we’re in the backseat watching it all burn down Love we don’t need to fall in line could be Singing at the top of our lungs Watching em all come alive
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anyone else 02:47
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i built a little dream machine so i could comfort everyone else i rusted off my coat of arms so i could get hurt like anyone else i'm not in love i made a little song machine so i could offer hope to everyone else i dusted off my lock and key so i could keep from loving anyone else i'm not in love still i get tired of the violence on the weekend in my neighborhood i'm not in love it's just that i've got to get my checks cleared before December i'm not in love i loved you much please don't laugh all the circuses and the echoes couldn't hold me back you kept on your shoes like all shit-talkers do and expected my sweetness i ain't taking you back cuz i found self-respect and baby you were always turned off by that i'm not in love
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smooth 02:46
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how many coconuts does it take to wake you up? swaying underneath my ghost like I’m not there I see you but I don’t want to stare you couldn’t’ve made it less clear, could've given a correct recomendation but you held me by the seat of your pants just like how you loved holding me by my collar held me like a reservation held me like a caller on the other line so I hung on you like a monkey’d do move slowly, my love I built you like a book I built you with stone like SoHo house Built you up and brought you there to my Copacabana cotillion the gathering crowds cheered for both of us we were both a mess wish we could stay right there the gathering crowds leered at both of us at something amiss just gonna leave that there ahhhhh I’ll take you into a movie screen slip into a little aubergine When you want to shoot I want to shoot I want to roll but the celluloid is old and the rights were never sold I spoke too soon; you spoke too late the film might be corrosive though the days are always golden the drama queens are broken and learning to moonwalk but hey, if it’s smooth as long as it’s smooth do you think that you were smooth because I loved you
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each other's apartments 02:05
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I’ll tell you what I legally can I got to his apartment early It wasn’t like me at all He said are you thirsty? Inside I’m like “why wouldn’t I be It’s 2am on a Tuesday” thank god I said “I’m good” 11 floors up from the lobby first door on the left But he leaned right How was I to know from just a DL hookup profile? Boys like you and I know our way around a closet We got discreet secretions secretly stored deep in our sacrums We’ve seen shame disintegrate condoms We’ve seen parents try to murder their children So who was I to judge When I found out what he’d done? Oh the things we do boys that stay in each other’s apartments Just let you know the war ain’t been won yet
8.
waiver 04:23
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focus on me we’ll be even I’m in love with you when the lights go down and the champagne sparkles I’m in love with you, I am Drunk on this moment Drunk on life Drunk on nothing at all except the air Hanging like it does Like Jesus Open Love me longer Couple seconds longer In the closet In the hallway In these moments stolen from the crown that judges I’m not gonna shade myself for loving what I love It’s a brand new day brand new year For us, dear I’m not about to say you don’t exist It’a just that I’ve been waiting for so long You couldn’t feel my love waver You couldn’t feel my love waver All this white supremacy grandeur Token queers in the corner sippin liqueur Hold me while I faint for this country Hold me while I tell you you’re wrong Hold me like a note Hold me like a job I can’t feel your love waver I can feel my love stable I can feel your love like a rock I have drunk it down like a rock I can’t feel your love Maybe we should sign a waiver Cuz it’s hard for me to stop loving once I’ve started Is it hard for you to stop loving once you’ve started? you’ll never feel my love waver.
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never too late 01:15
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the prophet seems to only ever understand the winter Capricorns trying to keep the faith so don't let me ever undersell you don't let me ever seal your fate there is a river right beneath you and it's never too late
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forgot 02:16
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I had a great point to make about something now I forget what it was I was gonna break it down real nice, show em what’s what fuck if I know what that was all my life all my life I was gonna kinda rehash shit real quick to settle the score But I forgot who that would serve I was gonna change their minds and save all our souls but I forgot what mine was worth shut me up shut me up with just one kiss shut me up all my life all my life I thought it didn’t matter how I feel when it was all converging to this point right here I had something important to say but now I don’t care what it was

about

some songs I wrote, which
people commissioned
me to record by myself
during lockdown,
which are now unlocked
for your pleasure, for
Enough Time Has Passed.
hope you can unlock them
and they can unlock you
x

credits

released May 6, 2022

this one is for and by my small group of patrons.
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goldseed - commissioned by Alcy Sivyer
hermit - commissioned by Patreon
rainwater - commissioned by Patreon
legitimate bodies - commissioned by the Count of Innumerable Blessings
anyone else - commissioned by Patreon
smooth - commissioned by Mary Pilon
each other's apartments - commissioned by Patreon
waiver - commissioned by Glenn Gentzke
never too late - commissioned by Solnishka
forgot - commissioned by Shade Murray

all tunes written, composed, performed on keys and (regrettably) engineered by natti vogel
all tunes mastered for bandcamp remotely by oliver ignatius

cover art figure sketch by laurie penny

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