Charlie cut my hair now my face looks bigger
I’m the only one with a real stake in her
Oh
Why’s it so cold in this house
I told you, told you
It’s gonna be a better day
Charlie woke me up
She was crying, hitting
Found my little bag
Where our money went
Oh oh
Why’s it so cold in this house
I told you, told you
It’s gonna be a better day
I know, I know it’s cold out there but my
Stomach hurts and people like to stare
I won’t leave you alone so much someday
Buddy woke me up he was crying, shaking
Throwing all my clothes in my mother’s suitcase
Oh
Why you gotta be so cold right now
I told you, told you
It’s gonna be a better day
Buddy held my hair when my waist was bigger
He’s the only boy I could take to dinner
We’ll be doing fine if we get through winter
I know, I know it’s cold out there but my
Buttons all broke and people like to stare
I won’t leave you alone so much someday
Someday, we won’t need to explain
What our catastrophic hearts ache for
Someday, we won’t need to act like we didn’t see it coming’
Oh but we didn’t see it comin’
I know, I know it’s cold out there
I know what people see when they stare
I won’t leave you alone so much someday
Courtney Swaine is not a newbie on the rock music scene. Being a founding member and one of the creative heads of "Bent Knee", and in this context renowned for her charismatic delivery of vocals and keyboards on stage, it's not a surprise that her solo works are of a similar innovative quality. Her second album "Monstre" clearly is her most venturous and experimental one of the three available on Bandcamp at the time of this writing (April 2019). Seemingly without effort, she's pushing the boundaries of the relevant rock subgenres beyond all conventional limits, so the only reasonable tag that's left is aventgarde - and that's a good thing! Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)
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