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Mettle

by petrillo

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1.
We Get More 02:33
It wasn’t like that, we formed it. Broke before we built. The bed was laden before we made it. Straight forward, a little satiety. Shift below the view. Blame the player, I’m here to blame the player. We get more 'cause we can. Regress on. Revert to safety. Desperate for my own. The bed was bled in before we made it. We get more 'cause we can.
2.
Thank you, baby, for giving it away for me. Thank you, baby, come on, get up on my knee. Thank you, baby, I wanna say it publicly. Baby. Baby. You’re my baby, professional loyalty. You’re my baby, first an oath then a plea. You’re my baby, I’m gonna say it publicly. Baby. Baby. OK, alright, alright. Alright OK. Dimmer, dimmer waning. Stretch that story till it’s torn. How much does he pay you to fluff those pillows every morning? Thank you, Mommy, I wanna see you on your knees. Thank you, Mommy, for making no apologies. Thank you, baby, I’m gonna say it publicly. Baby. Baby. Baby. Baby. OK, alright, alright. Alright OK.
3.
Feel her blood. You can feel it around you. She lived her own, her own way outside you. If you were cold you could climb inside. If you were lonely you had your mind, your mind, your mind. There was the one art there was the warm fur curling round your body. Blazing stones and flowers. Mad dolphin she was around you. She found her way outside you, outside you. You were the bear You disappeared. You were the bear You disappeared in your words. She curled inside her own slick body, and all was rainbow, was rainbow. She found her own way outside you, outside you. You heard the brackish ancestors. She felt the blood inside herself (herself), she felt the words inside herself (herself), she heard the words inside herself herself (herself, herself, herself). You're selfish. (Repeat).
4.
Eileen 03:29
My dad winces when he looks at me. I can’t believe I let him live. Someday I will run away. Someday I will run away. Someday I will run away. Worn tweeds and tubes of garish lipstick. Sometimes I like the feel of steel. Someday I will run away. Someday I will run away. You’ll see, I will run away. Oh, Eileen, I’ve never seen a girl like you before. Show me what’s beneath your cellar door. You’re just the filthy queen that I’ve been searching for. Eileen, there’s so much, so much, so much, so much, so much more for you. Randy doesn’t say he loves me but I know he wants to touch me. Ain’t no Rebeccas in this love song. Turns out I always had the wheel. Today I will run away. Today I will run away. Today I will run away.
5.
STET 03:57
Resigned to your entropy. Celebrate your miseries. I wanna. I wanna. Make way for calling cards. I’m boxed up in your garage. No longer pleasant hellos. I wanna bring you on home. I wanna, I wanna bring you home. Accepting the space between. A longing, more a relief. Encased in propriety. Inertia’s not patience, but rest on the yellow. I wanna, I wanna bring you home.
6.
Waves 02:01
Say what you will, write what you want, I'll still be here at the bottom of this deep well. I've been counting up bodies in my lines I've been picking away at god again. Tired man walks to the edge of the shore looks back comes back to my dream again. This shell has another life now Your bombs don't scare me anymore. I've looked out on the open shore felt the embrace of a thousand waves. I know the way out repeat.
7.
Fiasco 03:10
We can yank that anchor out of you and let the blood begin to flow from the place it took hold of you to the place it hurts you. A little surgery. A little chemistry. It’s all history. I feel like I failed you. But the lead is always sinking, gravity makes it so. If we stop trying to correct and reroute will the barbs release you?
8.
Singapore ii 03:22
Opportunity born of fire. A demand for grandeur across the lake. This used to be my home. That tree in the window, sunk down beneath our feet. Opportunity, the great conductor. We’ve got a lot to reap. This used to be my home. That hill’s a’ swelling. Can’t see beyond the rim. Man, it flows and flows over me. Opportunity, it keeps compelling. We’re gonna feast again. This used to be my home. It keeps getting bigger. Man, it flows and flows over me.
9.
Heavy Hitter 03:52
Can you hear it? That’s the sound of my accomplishments echoed through the hallowed halls of my walk-in closet. Can you feel it? The derision of ages subdued by the perfect equation of muscle to fat mass. I rise above. I take your condemnation and blend it up with a cup of leafy greens. I rise above. I take your expert witness and soak in it a cup of chia seeds. My mettle, my merit, my abdominal wall.

about

Melanie Crow — Drums & vocals
Franki Hand — Guitar & vocals
Anne Hensley — Bass & vocals
Kate Revv — Vocals on Eileen, We Get More, and Heavy Hitter
Neal Markowski — Sparkle on STET

All songs by Petrillo. Bear and Fish, Singapore, and Heavy Hitter written with Kasey Chaos.

Cover source image: "Self-portrait as a Lute Player" by Artemisia Gentileschi

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released December 22, 2017

Recorded and mixed at Burn the Furniture in Chicago, IL
Recorded by Neal Markowski and Eliya Gwetta
Mixed by Jonathan San Paolo and Neal Markowski
Mastered by Chris Goosman at Baseline Audio Labs

Petrillo would like to thank Neal "Twister" Markowski, Kasey Chaos, Lee Kornhauser, Sid Sheinberg, our families, your mom, the PRF, Billie, Watty, Franny, Remy, Bubbles, and Sprocket.

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Petrillo is an abattoir of shrikes from Kalamazoo, MI.

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