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Compassion Club Casiotone For The Painfully Alone is one of those artists you can listen to at certain moments of your life and really resonate with. This is one of my favorite releases from his catalogue and as Casiotone suggests, the use of electronic keyboards is prominent. The tracks are short, lyrics frank and moving. Good work Favorite track: Don't They have Payphones Wherever You Were Last Night.
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woke up with fingers crossed in a boy’s bed with your pants off after polite declines of coffee & toast walked home itching in last night’s clothes past the Phone Booth & the Beauty Bar the broken windows of your neighbors’ cars through the backdoor to a message from Sis asking who was your New Year’s kiss took the afternoon to piece it all plus a half a dozen phone calls crashed a party with Larissa & Chris in pursuit of a New Year’s kiss not the way that you’d imagined it on a balcony with champagne lips but in a pantry against the pancake mix you had your New Year’s kiss
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there‘s a shield around us it‘s invisible & soundless & we drink too much & xxxx too soon smoke cigarettes in rented rooms we quit our jobs & shoot the moon & cut our wrists & sleep til noon there‘s a shield around us we‘re invincible & boundless & we‘re on the run from I don‘t know we‘re Patty Hearst & Squeaky Fromme asleep on subways far from home you‘d think we‘d never seen a comb sent a letter to Mom & Dad Mom & Dad the money‘s running out got a letter from Mom & Dad they didn‘t send me anything there‘s a shield around us we are heady we are groundless & we burn our friends & kill their names build insecure & petty fames & tattoo things that we believe stars & skulls & hearts in half-sleeves there‘s a shield around us tell me how is it you‘ve found us cause we hide our tracks & watch the ground our footfalls they don‘t make a sound we‘ve cursed the names of our hometowns we‘re compassless & nowhere bound sent a letter to Mom & Dad Mom & Dad the money‘s running out got a letter from Mom & Dad I swear to God they don‘t get me at all
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I‘m Creedence Clearwater Wright best friend of Elodie Eye we‘ve been tight since Percy Elementary class of 1985 we moved together out to Philly after college took a two bedroom at South & 9th I sold my violin so we could have it easy El got her grandmother‘s money when she died we laughed like we were queens & split our ballgowns at the seams & every single time I‘d dream it was only El & me but then she slipped away from me she met a boy from New Jersey & they fell fast in love of course I swear it felt like a divorce this September I‘ll be 26 years old & El‘s the only one besides my dad who‘s ever said I love you Creedence took a job downtown it‘s an hour on the bus each way typing letters for a lawyer in a bad toupee it‘s dumb I know but it pays okay & did I mention I moved out I got my own place off of South & I‘ve been living hand to mouth for going on a year by now & yes I still see El around it‘s different but I can‘t say how she cut her hair it‘s back to brown she‘s living with her boyfriend now & since September I‘ve been 26 years old she‘s still the only one besides my dad who‘s ever said I love you Creedence
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if you ever make it back to Nashville remember you have still got a friend I‘ll meet you at the Parthenon that‘s the place we always went it‘s been so dull since you left Nashville I‘ve read the same books again & again it makes me wish I wasn‘t bashful when it comes to other men but if I could have my way Darling you‘d come home remember when you moved to Nashville & the first time that we kissed remember when your mother found us remember that you‘re sorely missed & when you make it back to Nashville we‘ll forget all of your sins & I still buy two pairs of everything so when you come home you & I‘ll be twins because if I could have my way I wouldn‘t be alone
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the clasp broke at the disco Mom I‘m sorry & the older men who hit on Becky nearly broke their necks on scattered pearls & we searched the best we could for two entire songs we knelt & felt along the place where we had stood but we only found 7 of Grandmother‘s pearls & as we rode the bus home I thought surely I‘d wake up tomorrow just to find that I had dreamed up everything there‘d still be pearls on a string I wouldn‘t smell like smoke & I‘d still have the cash that I had spent on drinks oh I feel as scattered as Grandmother‘s pearls Mom don‘t cry they‘re only pearls
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I wrote a performance for my mother to act in but she couldn‘t come she was taken by fits of rage unlike anything she had experienced in her 57 years of life she felt unfit & unable & she apologized the performance was cancelled
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dear Holly I apologize I‘ve been telling lies & you‘ve gotten wise oh Holly I never meant you harm it‘s just romance & charm with somebody new & I‘m sorry that you fell but you should have known just as well you‘re just a hobby Holly poor Holly you were always true & I don‘t blame you I would hate me too say Holly if you give it time then I‘m sure you‘ll find someone who still can be kind & I‘m sorry that you fell but you should have known just as well you‘re just a hobby Holly & I‘m sorry that you fell but you should have known just as well you‘re just a hobby Holly Holly Hobby
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cap & gown in purple & gold you’re 22 years old & a woman now you’re told Aunt Beth & Charlie cut a check for the graduating niece & you marked your independence with a signature on a lease but home was a photograph you taped to your wall it’s gonna be a cold white Christmas in St Paul beer for breakfast who’s gonna scold you’ve got your early hours dulled by the cigarettes you rolled second shift as a fry cook that’s your holiday in grease & you trudge to work through the snow in a coat down to your knees & you linger at the twinkle lights as you pass by the mall & count the days to a cold white Christmas in St Paul feather down the nights get so cold & you ignore the smell of mold as you smooth out the folds when you’re on your own you’ve got no one to please in a Minnesota city just as bare & as mean as the winter trees but you’ll be damned if you’re the one making collect calls on a cold white Christmas in St Paul yeah it’s a cold white Christmas in St Paul
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hey Bobby Malone it‘s good to have you home so you tried your own route & it didn‘t work out well you‘re not alone a job that made you crazy in a town you won‘t miss & the drunks you called friends were a means to an end & this is the end hey Bobby Malone how you have grown a couple months on the couch while you figure things out won‘t do you wrong hey Bobby Malone couldn‘t make rent again or are you in trouble deep you‘re a stray dog with fleas & your sister agrees you‘ve looked better son hey Bobby Malone it‘s good to have you home a couple months on the couch while you figure things out won‘t do you wrong hey Bobby Malone
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I waited up til it was light don‘t they have payphones wherever you were last night you stumbled in & what a sight all pale & puffy eyes under the bathroom bright a face to give a ghost a fright don‘t they have payphones wherever you were last night
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Dedicated to the memory of Joe Flanagan

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released March 7, 2006

Produced by Jherek Bischoff & Owen Ashworth in Seattle, WA except 7, 8 & 9 produced by Jason Quever & Owen Ashworth at Pan American Recording Studio in San Francisco, CA
Additional engineering by Alex deLanda
Pedal steel guitar on 4 recorded by Jason Quever
12, vocals on 4 & all of Jenn Herbinson's vocals recorded by Owen Ashworth in Redwood City, CA

Mastered by Josef Suchy

Cover art by Heidi Anderson

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