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ANVILS OF LOVE

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1.
I pour sun from my fingertips when I'm with my invisible girlfriend I do more, so much more than this you can ask her, she'll say yeah! Invisible Girlfriend Invisible Girlfriend Invisible Girlfriend Invisible Girlfriend Oh yeah (((Baby, I know sometimes I act real bad But Sugar, I can give you the best love you ever had))) I grow flowers from my fingertips when I'm with my invisible girlfriend I drink scotch in my Orange Julius she don't like it but I'm the boss Invisible Girlfriend Invisible Girlfriend Invisible Girlfriend Invisible Girlfriend Oh yeah (She's real--I feel her!) I spit fire but you extinguish it cuz you're the best, invisible girlfriend You satisfy more than cigarettes like your imaginary kisses do Invisible Girlfriend Invisible Girlfriend Invisible Girlfriend Invisible Girlfriend Oh yeah
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Fly Paper 02:45
A graveyard on a sunny day is like the way you smile when you're thinking I'm thinking I should probably run away 'cause you're about to do something crazy It scares me when you look at me I wish that you were make believe It scares me when you look at me (like that) I wish I saw what you can see Silver mirror in the dark where my eyes give off a ghostly spark I'm thinking it's a piece of yesterday that got stuck like flies on fly paper
3.
Love and violence I'd kill anyone for you anything that moves boom boom boom Love and violence you and me under the moon Cadillac to Cancun baby, you're so cool Baby's got a gun and Seventies shades She's seen every kung fu movie ever made we'll make a list of everyone we hate and we'll blow out their brains Love and violence all this mayhem turns me on this could be the theme song for a guy and a girl with a gun Love and violence we can go where we wanna go we can do what we wanna do but we gotta shoot our way through Baby's got a gun and Seventies shades she's seen every Tarantino movie ever made we'll make a list of everyone we hate and we'll blow out their brains [excerpt from "Love & Violence: The Movie"] Love and violence we'll cross the border soon bury bodies under the moon baby, you're so cool Baby's got a gun and she don't hesitate she'll pin you to the wall and empty out her .38 True Romance is a BOOM! and a smoking gun 'cause we are in love Love and violence Love and violence Baby, you're so cool Boom boom boom You're so cool Boom boom boom You're so cool
4.
Is it only in my head? Is it only in my head?... The moon is just a fingernail every cloud's a Death's Head see how the Zero bleeds from the edge Take a walk outside in the blazing midnight sun all the Dead are in machines and your deeds are all undone It's the voice of the angels in a Xerox machine it's the Devil's fingerprints in a swirl of gasoline Is it only in my head? See how the Zero bleeds from the edge Is it only in my head? See how the Zero bleeds from the edge All we ever wanted was everything all we ever got was cold get up, eat jelly sandwich bars and barbed wire squash every week into a day O, to be the cream! O, to be the cream! O, to be the cream! O, to be the cream! Is it only in my head? Is it only in my head? Is it only in my head? Is it only in my head?
5.
Falling anvils I have known sudden romances that break your every bone The love of a woman can shatter your spine grind you to dust on the ground when you thought it was just a good time It comes out of nowhere when you think it's all fine much like the windshield to the wayward dragonfly I have done nothing of which I'm ashamed but I know there's an anvil somewhere overhead bearing my name (André!) It comes out of nowhere when you think it's all fine much like the windshield to the wayward dragonfly I have done nothing of which I'm ashamed but I know there's an anvil somewhere overhead bearing my name Fallin' anvils up above Fallin' anvils Anvils of love
6.
Long Drive 03:49
A simple meal a shining star a sunbeam for your avatar quiet songs on a rainy night a sheet of paper, cool and white You must remember I know I told you your shadows dance when light pours through and there's a place behind the rain where shadows go when sunlight comes again Long drive Long drive (((Drive me down to Babylon got some people there who owe me coin))) I have boots and I'll be goddamned a passage through this savage land so hold your hand out in the dark and catch the lightning when it's still a spark Long drive Long drive A simple meal of city lights your breath inside me like stars at night An empty page a shining light a window carved from pure sunlight So since it's now and we're alive curl up with me and take a long drive
7.
Je t'en veux 03:28
C'est une chose qu'il ne faut pas oublier dans la rue ou dans l'atelier Presque tout ce que l'on désire, ce serait fou de le laisser s'enfuir Je t'en veux ma poupée ensoliellée je t'en veux, ma vie, mes yeux jusqu'au bout de la nuit la tristesse s'enfuit C'est la nuit dont il faudra se souvenir tous les jours ça a gout de l'avenir dans mon åme il y a des animaux j'en sais rien si cette chanson est trop Je t'en veux ma poupée ensoliellée je t'en veux, ma vie, mes yeux jusqu'au bout de la nuit la tristesse s'enfuit
8.
No one at the party knew what a genius you were and I myself was only just discovering the extent then you tried to stick your entire tongue inside that poor girl's ear and we got kicked out but that was usually how things went We passed out on the Boulevard St. Michel and all I remember of that is nothing Girl from Boston with the long brown hair how we wanted her so you said she looks like butter melting on a waffle then I had her, you had her friend, and I apologize (((Je me souviens bien comme elle avait chaude au cul))) We did the walk of shame in the wrong direction but somehow that just made it cooler. Yeah. Singing George Michael's 'Faith' with a deficit of irony: "I know not everybody's got a body like you"
9.
I went out without a coat cuz I had you on my mind now I'm cold and lonesome, baby it happens all the time When a woman gets the blues she hangs her head and cries when it happens to a man he jumps on a train and rides (He don't even know just where it goes somewhere down the line, that's all he knows) Now here I stand, my head hung low muttering your name I ain't going anywhere under the 45th Street rain I have screwed up big and hard and I've sabotaged my name my reputation's inside-out and my social skills are lame--so lame! (I'm gonna make you see me and how much better we'll be when you accompany me) Now here I stand, my head hung low muttering your name I ain't going anywhere under the 45th Street rain
10.
She promised sunshine then she went away now when the sun shines it's an automatic cloudy day She's non-existent she's inside-out but she's as real as the fear that grips you when the lights go out She tastes like ginger she smells like rain she takes the world apart in pieces and she puts them back again She's pure destruction she's kingdom come she shoots the wheels off to watch the crash and says wasn't that fun? Wasn't that fun? She's my obsession she's every dream she's the alpha and omega and all the mysteries in between She's non-existent she's inside-out but she's as real as the fear that grips you when the lights go out

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Ten original songs from Denver's sharp-dressed maestros of powerpop!

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released February 10, 2019

Andrew Koch: guitar and vocals
Denise An: drums and vocals
Sid Pink: bass

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firstimers Denver, Colorado

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Andrew- Guitars, Rhodes keys, piano, and vibraphone. He's a Linguistics instructor.

Denise- Percussion, djembe, glockenspiel, and modular synth. She's a full-time student of Traditional Chinese Medicine on the PhD track.

Sid Pink- Bass. He's a film & TV producer.

Casey DuBois: Keys & vocals. She's a Go-go dancer and yogi.
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