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Talking to Girls at Parties (Demos)

by Virginia Creeper

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1.
Letterman 04:06
your appetite is ripe but it’s smaller than your eyes scanning the room to find the perfect prize that will paint you in the brightest light i tried to get it right but i am built from compromise so tell me what is it like to be made of solid lines? i’ve been listening but i can’t relate i’ve been leaning in shouldering the weight maybe tomorrow if i can wait high school hometown hero let me wear your letterman i want to know its power i want to feel the weight of it pick me up and put me down again i want to know what it’s like to finally get the win patience is wearing thin she’s back out on that ledge again and i’m getting in my head again trying to get it right and i can see your face air-conditioned on an April day pushing food in circles on your plate a metal aftertaste i’ve been listening but i can’t relate i’ve been leaning in shouldering the weight maybe tomorrow if i can wait high school hometown hero let me wear your letterman i want to know its power i want to feel the weight of it pick me up and put me down again i want to know what it’s like to finally get the win i’ve been listening but i can’t relate i’ve been leaning in shouldering the weight maybe tomorrow if i can wait
2.
you were just my neighbor living two doors down the hall i was just a selfish kid hiding in clothes racks in the mall and i call i call to you the doctors told you i would be taller than i ended up i guess it's not like on tv they don't always know their stuff and i call i call to you and i guess i'll have to be patient i guess i'll have to wait until i'm ready to face it until my head's on straight you were just a figure standing tall inside my room i was just a promise that i would be back someday soon but i fall i fall through and i guess you'll have to be patient i guess you'll have to wait until i am ready to face it until my head's on straight you were just an empty page i was meant to fill it up but paint by numbers feels so strange when you don't ever have enough and i try to be patient i try to wait until i am ready to face it until my head's on straight and i draw i draw your face i draw you from memory but the page stays blank
3.
Handwriting 05:52
i keep a paper with your handwriting on the dresser in the corner of my room next to the books i asked to borrow i swore that i’d get them back real soon i keep a paper with your handwriting in a frame at the foot of my bed it always glimmers when the sunlight hits it but i wish it’d hit you instead and you won’t bleed through to the next page and i’ll be fine it just feels so strange Leah got a tattoo of your handwriting in jet black at the crook of her arm she only sees it in the mirror or when she’s leaning on the hood of my car and you won’t bleed through to the next page and i’ll be fine it just feels so strange i could never decipher your handwriting but i always liked the way it looked circular and soft like an artist draws a wave heavy with all the hands you shook heavy with all the hands you shook heavy with all the hands you shook i make my bed i dot my i’s i call my friends always say goodnight i mark the place two squares aligned i catch your breath i carry mine
4.
Birthmark 03:45
i saw your silence in the cold winter air it fogged up the glass & got caught in my hair try to recall how i felt with you there but i just have pictures, a birthmark of care now all the flowers are coming up rough they push through the frost 'cause they wanna act tough you offer kindness, but i don't touch the stuff reaching for reasons you don't go enough now it's so crystal and abundantly clear how things would shake out, how you'd spend the year a better place is still no better than here but you nod politely & lend them your ear the church doors are shut & the crowd has died down tomorrow you'll fly back to your new hometown go to the grocery store to walk around nothing has changed but the loss of that sound nothing has changed but the loss of that sound
5.
Taller 03:23
eyes glued to the mirror and the mirror’s glued to your mind think that if you stare just long enough something will change don’t you think it’s gotta this time just wanna be taller just wanna be taller just wanna be taller just wanna be tall turn to astrology cause the church has done you wrong and you can’t bear to face the void on its own so you interpose the two and carry on just wanna be taller just wanna be taller just wanna be taller just wanna be tall you wanted to see the whole picture so you stood upon a chair but it came crashing down your footing lost, your ego found was it worth all the fuss what you saw up there? just wanna be taller just wanna be taller just wanna be taller just wanna be tall
6.
Dirty Pic 04:20
asked you for a dirty pic when we were on the phone swore i’d keep it to myself, i wouldn’t tell a soul i just need something to do, a way to ease my mind it doesn’t have to be of you, anything will work this time asked you for a cigarette when we were in the cold i know i never smoke them, i just need something to hold prostrate on your carpet with a fear of getting high hold my breath and count to ten, anything will work this time i want to trade places if only for a night i want to be wrong and still feel so right bat my baby blues in the limelight i want to be alright asked you for a ride, i just want to go home i know you’ve had a couple, but i can’t be alone quiet in the backseat as you cross the centerline a momentary rush, anything will work this time i want to trade places if only for a night i want to be wrong and still feel so right bat my baby blues in the limelight i want to be alright i want to be alright i want to be alright
7.
Swear Jar 03:42
i’m putting coins in a swear jar try and absolve my guilt i’m burning out like a seen star something i read in a book drive back home to the east coast catch my breath on the way ask you who do you love most? what if they fade away? i’m putting coins in the fountain at the FSK mall make my wishes and count them i know i can’t get it all blowing out all the candles on your birthday cake it’s still in the freezer something we never ate i’m putting coins in a payphone just to see if it works i know it probably doesn’t but i gotta be sure loss is a freight train heavy and long and you’re stuck at a crossing trying to move on you say, "get it together, man" i say, "i’m already together, man"
8.
Buddy Holly 02:50
we could grow old in stale conversation we could buy records and furnish a basement we could head east to my childhood town the streets would seem bigger as we walked around we could lock eyes, never look away we could meet family over the holidays play Buddy Holly for our wedding song and all of our friends say they knew all along we could split up and think freedom feels fine we could have run-ins but always play nice we could shake hands, pleasantly call it quits and when we’re alone wish the other didn’t exist we could cut ties and swear that we’re good we could go out when people think that we should we could regret and think it was all wrong until all our friends say they knew all along we could go one way and never look back not sure which fantasy arc to enact when my fingers are crossed, tied behind my own back looking for the self-assurance that i lack
9.
Affirmation 03:26
i’m just seeking affirmation when i call to you from the pavement what happens if we never make it out of all the cul-de-sacs they're writing songs about? i just want your validation when i touch your leg in the basement what good does all of this waiting really do? as if we could get our hands on something true we all want something to save us from the dull echo of humiliation what happens if we never ever get it out? of our biology and bloodlines full of doubt i’m just seeking affirmation when i crawl on my knees on the pavement

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An assortment of songs mid-bloom & still incubating. Recorded on various Apple products over the last decade (mostly the last few years, but decade sounds more monumental).

All songs are unmixed, unmastered, and mostly recorded as single-take iPhone voice memos. Trying my best to be less precious about these things.

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released December 31, 2019

All vocals, lyrics, guitars, and coughs written, recorded, and performed by Genevieve Poist.

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Virginia Creeper Austin, Texas

a famous race car who learns there is more to life than just racing and winning

(cow rock from texas by genevieve & friends)

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