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cheap thrills / predatory interest rates

by callie flemming

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a downward spiral of neurotic hypotheticals about a life i will never be brave enough to experience, but am certainly cynical enough to criticize. also from the mythical third callie flemming album, which i PROMISE i'm working on - thanks everyone for your patience. yippee !

lyrics

[verse 1]
there is a cloud swelling with rain in the night
it's gonna open, in or out of sight

like all dark things, there's no way to know without light

so put on your makeup and get out your plastic plates
for a couple cheap thrills with predatory interest rates

come for the drink and the fun and the friends
leave with soaked hair and a hand in your dress

it's one can of mace from a terrible mess
but people have died for a whole lot less

[chorus]
i don't mean to impose
but she might love me if i smoked
and i'd gladly trade a habit for a girl

so what if i took a drag
would i be pretty when i gag?
all the paths to all the ways i could unfurl

[verse 2]
there is an outlet loaded with cords for the band
no surge protectors, it's all secondhand

it comes with the terms of your name on the list
a fire in the room or a chloroform kiss

it's a vice that i hated, but i truly missed
to think fitting in could be worth all of this

[chorus]
i don't mean to impose
but she'd love me if i smoked
and i'd gladly trade a habit for a girl

so let me take a drag
aren't i pretty when i gag?
all the paths to all the ways i could unfurl

[bridge]
oh, as if i'd even get the nerve to make it past the door
walk away and lose the battle, stay in bed and lose the war

too cynical to let it be,
too scared to ever try
cuz loose clothes and lost inhibitions
are how girls like me die

party-goers party-gone

[chorus]
i don't mean to impose
i don't even want a smoke
but i'd get one if i looked more like a girl

my miscarried pretty privilege
at the hands of my self-image
hy-pathetic-al, but it keeps me from the word

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released September 11, 2024

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