Lauren West Andy Porta Vocals, Guitar Drums American Pinup Strange Creatures

Rob Peralta Tim Robbins Guitar Bass Credits “Sheena Easton,” F#m,” and “Strange Creatures” written by Lauren West and Andy Porta. “Special brownies” written by Lauren West, Andy Porta, and andre salazar. “strongbow” written by lauren west, andy porta, and harold beltre. “Superman,” No One Dies,” “Bus Stop,” “Expecting,” “L.F.D.Y.,” “Board- Unreality ing House,” “Somewhere in Between,” “Go!,” and “High School” written by Lauren West. All lyrics by That is your mantra, please repeat clearly Lauren West. Give us a smile For the whole world to hear and see Lead vocals and rhythm guitar by Lauren West. Drums and percussion by Andy Porta. Lead guitar by Rob Peralta. Bass by Seth Nicholson. Additional guitar and other instrumentation by Andy Porta. Backup vo- All your life you’ve seen cals by Lauren West, Seth Nicholson, Andy Porta, and Rob Peralta. Horns on “No One Dies” and “L.F.D.Y.” These big, sparkling faces on the screen performed by Frank Huber and Dylan Hume. Harmonica on “L.F.D.Y.” performed by Rob Peralta. The Gang: And nothing else L-West, Rob-O, Seth Goose, C-Wrecks, Terry, Bread Malarky, and Dennisaurus Rex. Has ever been as interesting All songs were recorded at Black Cat Studios in White Plains, NY and engineered by Andy Porta, except And someday you’ll shine just as bright for the lead vocals which were recorded at Cogent Records in Valhalla, NY and engineered by Jon The Big Time Manierre. Produced by American Pinup. Mastered by Kyle DiSanto. Artwork by Orrin Hurley. Text, logo, And everyone will recognize and layout by Diana Salas. Pressed by Affordable Sound. Distributed by Altercation Records, Inc. That you never wanted more You were headed up there all along

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And someday you’ll shine just as bright The Big Time I don’t wanna bring you down I don’t wanna waste your time And if you would But I think that this might just stop and actually turn out right listen I can see that there’s a You would i ind out chance Everybody’s going crazy what you’re missing But I can’t seem to hold your Everybody’s lost their And wrap ourselves up Now it’s up to me glance minds nice and tight and let me tell you And I’m too stubborn to sur- There must be something in Inside a womb of buzzing wires I’m not losing this render to my past the water But through some biological need one ‘Cause it’s the Youth Crew The same old tired tales repeat And I’m not trying to be a pain and the Christian Right And I swear that one day I’ll Chorus But I think you got just what In a knock-down drag-out accept I want blackout i ight That it was all for I’m not trying to be a I don’t wanna just forget it And the Poster Boys and nothing pain ‘Cause I know that I’ll regret Cover Girls But I think you got it Are gonna take over the chorus just what I want world I don’t wanna just I don’t know what to say This change is nothing new forget it ‘cause When you turn your head away I’d love to join your little The knee-jerk defense of It’s perfect, it’s I know that you’re not listening party a fool perfect It wasn’t that important But I just can’t get in Try insecure for once And if you would just anyway the mood It’s honest just not stop and listen Can’t wrap my mind around glamorous You would i ind out what you’re I know soon I’ll make you see these stories This change is nothing missing What you don’t know you’re Are these things really new Now it’s up to me and let missing human too? Your daily dose of the me say Then I’ll i inally have my happy new you It’s perfect, it’s perfect ending I can’t help feeling like Tomorrow’s a new hat No, I won’t just leave it be we’re being But any idiot would know that chorus ‘Cause it’s too fucking plain Robbed of something very to see key This change is nothing new This could turn out to be ev- Carving out our dei initions erything I’ve ever dreamed ‘Cause we take the air- waves at their word Though both things are intangible Since you’ve learned to build a bomb I have to disagree It’s become your favorite hobby But it’s too late now With what you’re telling me Blowing up these situations ten times I just don’t think you know your stuff greater than they should be You’ve got weapons up your You just can’t help yourself sleeve This argument is fake So abiding, so inviting But you’re too eager to It crumbles and it breaks To the tempers that are rising use them, I think I’ve really had enough and this heat wave that you’re You abuse them, cruel and riding careless, mindless battle Why don’t you go? You feel no remorse casualties You can’t ‘cause we’ve been And in your darkest hours We should go our separate ways through this all before You i ind yourself regret- Before this escalates ting You know that I don’t wanna i ight This is your expertise And still dreading this ad- Making something out of nothing diction, this infection that Let’s both just cool our heads Unaffected, shamelessly poised you’re spreading And give our rivalry a rest with your i inger on the button You know there is no cure Even though we both know that I’m Your senses tingling ‘Cause each time you cook right So exciting, all this i ighting your i ix you just want more Take delight in the Why don’t you go? spotlight but chorus never mind that it is And if all this is for nothing blinding It’s hard to get along Why should we both waste our time? You light the fuse When the greatest fear We could argue until morning and wait you share is being wrong And never change each other’s minds For this big, dramatic bitch to Go! detonate Why don’t you go? You’re letting all these petty problems Weigh you down It’s nice of you to say you’re sorry What a day Static burning through my bitter ears Just keep it simple, that’s all I really And we can all pretend and no one dies Worn away want And terrii ied I’ve wasted all these years It’s all I can handle, even it feels like a Keep your composure, keep up appearances I don’t know what lot And let yourself get lost in it I wanna do or what I even can But nobody raised me to be weak and so ‘Cause nobody wants to see the face I don’t know where I want to be I try not to let these complications get behind the mask But I know that it’s not where I am to me With all that scar tissue and empty eyes of glass I’ll run away from here Just keep it classy, that’s all you ever And i ind a place to dream at lightning speed hear chorus I’ll embrace this fear And it’s good advice my dear Or be content with somewhere in between I’ve seen you embarrassing yourself a few It’s comfortably familiar, this old faith- I’ll run away from here too many times ful noise I won’t go quietly It’s undignii ied Digging out my old favorite toys And I burn But no one expects the things they love And it’s so easy to fall to grow a mold Use my voice Out of favor with yourself Packed away inside damp boxes down below To let you all hear what I think I know And it’s so easy to crawl I’ll make a choice Right back in the end It seems now all’s repaired and everyone Or let you all just tell me where to go is pleased It’s okay Just keep your head down, it’s best for And I try to shake the memory If there’s a start there has to be an end everyone But it still stings that you just couldn’t My i iery words need to be heard It helps you to focus on what you need to give me the damn dignity And I’ll never get stuck again get done Of asking me not to leave And nobody has to look each other in the chorus eye

And now’s the time to let this go Tonight’s the night to grab the rope Today’s the day to hit the road Tonight’s the night to go

chorus She survived the i iood and plague and lightning too And she never even cried, so I had to turn a blind eye Every month when we both knew the rent was due

And she said, “Please don’t you do me any favors,” “I simply can’t afford to pay You’re locking yourself in your room them back” And I told her it was free Wrapped up inside your tight cocoon Well these walls have seen and heard a lot of sorrow And she just looked at me But there’s no metamorphosis This house is where the vicious cycle And said “Darling, I ain’t never Just think of all the things you miss thrives heard of that” You bury your head under all these artii icial amuse- It has a bathroom and a phone ments But it’s never been a home Now her ashes belong to the county Wake up, wake up, hurry up Just a place where parents fuck up their kids’ lives And her boy is a ward of the Before there is nothing left state The woman in room seven shot her husband And he’ll grow up someday You’ve done this whole routine before, and I’d go crazy Her little daughter’s name was Valerie And drink his life away You gotta soak some more, before you are ready to go As she was hauled away in cuffs It’s a sad but inevitable fate She shouted out, “With any luck,” “That little girl will grow up to be just It’s important that you recognize You’re gonna lose yourself or fuse yourself to these like me” the cycle four walls That really is the only crucial Spending all your time alone In room six there was another broken family part Give me a sign that you are still alive in there A young mother left alone with her young Don’t you say that it’s genetic I don’t think you really get it Because without a knock I really wouldn’t know son His father went out for a drink Because you cannot pass down a And not a soul has seen him since broken heart I guess it’s easier to stay It’s plain to see their little nightmare’s All bottled up and locked away just begun chorus Than to jump into it And that little girl who grew up With all the other living breathing things And I swear I’ve seen enough to last a lifetime in room seven Oh it’s so dangerous to let the world come in and I swear that I could just go on and on Well she turned out just the way change your mind But I’ll spare you the details that you’d expect You’re risking turning into I know nobody really cares And to her mother as she died Something you don’t recognize I just had to put it these whispers in a song She said “Don’t you apologize,” “We know my life would have And it’s 123 already been a mess” You’ve done this whole routine before, or am I crazy? This may not be No closer to the end, and now you are ready to go The prettiest song you’ve heard but please And they found her body i ioating You gotta listen closely now and then in the bathtub You’re gonna lose yourself or fuse yourself to these ‘Cause there are stories in these halls The makeup was still fresh upon her face four walls And there are faces in these walls And none of them ever want to come here And a brief and simple note Spending all your time alone again On the wall in lipstick wrote Give me a sign that you are still alive in there “It’s the only way to get out of Because without a knock I really wouldn’t know Well the woman in room i ive survived the this place” i ire chorus The movies tell you that it makes things complicated But I’ve always said that it’s only a big deal if you make it Yesterday Why don’t you cut me some slack? And I’m sick of all the fabricated etiquette it comes with I saw you at the bus stop I took my chances coming back This time around let’s skip all of the questions and the And you were waiting with those wires in Don’t you not look at me that way bullshit your ears Should I tell all of my friends? Just like old days And if it’s too much I can stay Should I bring it up again? You still don’t have a car and I know you’re comfortable that way Should I call you on the phone? I i ind out that this town’s been missing me I didn’t think that you would mind Or should I just leave it alone? for years chorus I’m not the kind of girl you have to mind your manners for And as I roll around these streets I’m well aware of what this is, and I’ve been through it They conjure distant memories Yesterday all before Of all the hearts I left behind I saw you at the bus stop Don’t you think this song is yours, you’re no more special I knew that it had been too long to say than the rest This town and me hello Now that it’s out of my system We never really got along The beeline came I gotta get it off my chest I was a mystery And you just climbed right on and To all those people in the halls I didn’t have the guts to ask you not to go I’m very sorry if you had other intentions And now that I’m back But I think my gender may have given you the wrong Feeling like a stranger impression Doesn’t really feel so strange Well I wish there was a better way to get rid of this tension Years ago We just weave around the topic, ‘cause it’s not something We had so much in common you mention Some may have thought we even shared a Should I move into your place? rib or two Should I say this to your face? We were the kids Should we start picking names for kids? With matching leather jackets Or should we just call it what it is? Smoking, ditching school

chorus But years ago I told you I was leaving Should I give this the time of day? And you just smiled with that ring around Should we just go our separate ways? your head Could this be a pleasant surprise? You muttered, “whoa” Or just another waste of time? And said “Congratulations,” “Don’t ever let me see your face back chorus here again”

Well according to the experts and recorded history We swore that we would keep in touch Maybe I should feel these kind of things a little more But swearing never helped us much deeply And it got easier with time And I try to be affected, try to bring myself to care For such a sensitive creature, you gotta ask what hap- chorus pened there I am getting old Waiting patiently It’s very unfamiliar Quiet desperation Youth is all I know It’s all so alien to me And play-dates with danger Cruel anticipation Pat on the back for getting through But the sun’s that same old white spot You’ve got a mid-life crisis and a baby on the way that Searing its name in my skin You’ve got a few more seconds left to really seize the day Irony, imagine that When they’re up, they’re up and there is nothing left to see chorus To ease the blow, you might want to consider therapy This is a common war Timeless, universal I don’t remember ever feeling the world spinning And now your time is running out We just want more and more I guess I must be used to it by now T-minus nine months, counting down And waste it all resisting The plot’s supposed to thicken while your hair is So tell me what do you do now? It’s a sad fate to grow jaded thinning This is what they warned you about And it’s a sad fate to be fading But I’m still offhandedly wasting the hours And I’m pulling clumps of it out in the shower I wanna stay naive You’ve got a growing problem and an interested agency I wanna keep this short and sweet chorus Too bad that you believed he had a latex allergy That whole “live fast, die young” kind Something’s cooking in your oven and you don’t have a ring of thing But you know he’s not a man, what are you expecting? I’m not slowing down And now your freedom’s running out Acceloexponential This is no time to fool around Each second’s shorter than the last That’s how you got in trouble now And each day shorter by the second This is what they worried about But the sky’s still in the same place And my feet still on the ground You never thought it You never thought it through... Well it can happen Well it happened to you...

And two hearts beating like two drums The big one and the little one So sad when they fuck up so young What’s it like to be knocked up?

This is what they warned you about