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Day Job EP

by Melk

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1.
Sun Valley 03:55
that jacket is way too nice for a Democratic Socialist baby won’t you tell me why you lied? fluorescent lights shimmer on linoleum while all that smoke you blow gets in my eyes i hate this party where did all my friends go can’t even drink this can of PBR some girl in the kitchen starts to try and talk to me but I won’t let her take this very far all these people are laughing i don't understand why they think they’re so funny but I don't even try it’s hard to think about these things in the end the way that they were they way they could have been how happy we were, I know you’ll forget standing in the sunshine and the summer sweat they say memories fade and it must be true so why am I still here thinking of you? went to a landlocked state and felt invincible the trees and mountains kept my footsteps straight got home got into bed and slept for hours my pockets were full of tackles and bait a postcard on my wall spells out your hometown don’t know why I can’t just take it down i look at it whenever he starts calling me how long can I pretend that you’re around? all these people are laughing i don't understand why they think they’re so funny but I don't even try it’s hard to think about these things in the end the way that they were they way they could have been how happy we were, I know you’ll forget standing in the sunshine and the summer sweat they say memories fade and it must be true so why am I still here thinking of you? don’t know where you are now but I know you’ll be going soon back to the home and place you know so well so if you need me I’ll be in my roommate’s friend’s apartment sweating in my own personal hell
2.
I lost my train of thought again It’s hard to find under all this dirty laundry Put it back inside my head Next to the dust and all the things I dread Do you remember when we met I was a ghost with a sheet over my head You walked me back to my place That night was dark like we were out in outer space I’ve been swinging and missing Endlessly listening To songs that you’d hate Picking fights with my best friends Chewing on split ends I feel so ashamed Something has to change I saw you in my dreams again We were riding the blue line to Smithsonian We got off and we went to see The cherry blossoms as they fell off of the trees You used to listen to me think When snow was sticking to the roof of my apartment Sit in my beat up Grand Marquis Talk life and death and other things that scared me Am I being dramatic Erratic, sporadic Rolling my eyes Crying just makes my head hurt Cut up my t-shirt I’m always so drained Something has to change I want to fall in love again But I can’t shake the sand out of this shoebox It would be nice if this worked out Too bad I live in a state of constant doubt Do you still think about me Out in Sun Valley Struggling to breathe I want you to remember Those nights in December With your cowboy bedsheets You’ll lose those memories
3.
Broken Nose 04:43
when we talk i want to tell you everything but I won’t i should keep my cards close want to cry in your arms after every date but I can’t and that’s just the way it goes you’re always in my head i want to kiss you but instead you punch me in the face with your perfect hand my nose is bleeding all over the floor i just want to love you why don’t you understand why can’t you do this to me anymore? in my dreams i’m pulling out my teeth and then pick them up and place them in a row i wake up and wonder if you’re next to me but you’re not and I already know that this makes me feel so bad if you could see me you’d be sad punch me in the face with your perfect hand my nose is bleeding all over the floor i just want to love you why don’t you understand why can’t you do this to me anymore? when I win i feel a little lonely when I lose i feel nothing at all twenty three an exercise in apathy maybe I’ll meet somebody in the fall a boy who’ll love me like you did until the day he gets rid of me punch me in the face with your perfect hand my nose is bleeding all over the floor i just want to love you why don’t you understand why can’t you do this to me anymore?
4.
i crawled out on the fire escape to water your plants it won’t change your mind but I thought I’d take the chance my knees got all dirty as I poured and poured you'd said that they were fickle especially the ones "sans fleurs" what if I were thinner? what if I changed my hair? i'll sit outside your window burning highway flares and then would you care for me the way I would for you? wouldn’t that be lovely? i know it won’t come true

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released September 30, 2019

written by Melissa Kain
vocals by Melissa Kain
guitar by Jegug Ih and Melissa Kain
bass by AJ DiGregorio
drums by Alex Scheuer
synth by Jegug Ih
arranged by Melissa Kain, AJ DiGregorio, Jegug Ih, and Alex Scheuer
mixed and mastered by Jegug Ih


recorded at 7DrumCity and Hampshire House in Washington, DC

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Melk Washington, D.C.

aspiring optimists from Washington, D.C.

Vox & guitar: Melissa Kain

Bass: AJ DiGregorio

Drums: Alex Scheuer

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