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you don't pick up anymore

by kat giordano

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hi. this is the first track i have ever uploaded to bandcamp. it's far from the only or first one i've written but somehow it feels like it was always supposed to be this one, which will now forever make me think of sitting in my basement doing laundry on a sunday night and texting the iphone memo version to a good friend.

nothing else to say here. i'm proud of this. i love you. there's more where that came from.

xoxoxo,
kat

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you always had
this faraway look in your eye
talking to me,
but fixed on an object behind
i thought you were nervous,
smiling into your wine
but now i understand
you were courting the next one in line

now we're posted up at a bar,
i can't hear myself think
all of the boys and the girls
wanna buy you a drink
then we'd stumble back home to my place
to not sleep a wink
you seemed so important,
but really you paid them, i think

and now i'm standing in the nosebleeds
while you're putting on your dog and pony show
wondering if anyone else in this crowd
is cursed with knowing what i know
that when they all go home,
you always feel alone
you shower in your clothes
and sit there, weeping, on the floor
i'd call you up,
but you don't pick up anymore

i used to wish i could fish
through the pink of your brain
reach into the meat
and pull out was causing your pain
but from farther away
i can see it's the pleasure you hate
you get what you want,
then convince yourself none of it's great

and now i'm lurking on a rooftop
where your new best friends
persuade you off the ledge
maybe they will be a little more successful
saying all the things i said
i bet they need a win
the way i always did
i'd treat you like a kid,
but nothing ever was enough
i'll call it love,
but you were squeamish with that stuff

i used to try and understand you
like a poem, maybe that was my mistake
it's true that no man is an island
but you break your own heart trying anyway
maybe you're afraid
you don't have what it takes
to love someone that way
and so you'd rather wage a war
fall on your sword
but i won't cry -
that's what it's for

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released February 20, 2023

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kat giordano Pennsylvania

i'm 29, any pronouns, living in the lehigh valley.
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piano, words, and roughly eighteen layers of innuendo.
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i'm a writer too, and my social media will mostly lead ya to that stuff.
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if i had it my way i would just record all this shit on my iphone.
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