1. |
I, Bitch
04:10
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Here I am again
Dissolving at my escritoire
Feels like you’re not a fan
But let no one say that you are
One of the special people who’s unsure what’s allowed, lost in the crowd
When you’re all alone in the room
I don’t care if you’re gonna drag my name through the ditch
I don’t mind if you find the outfit hard to forgive
I don’t care if you go and come back when I am rich
I’m gonna live
I, bitch
Here you are again
Peering into my boudoir
And not making out who I am
You try to get the lay of the land
And you can’t get arrested
New things make you feel sad
Real girls make you mad
Small wonder you don’t understand
I don’t care if you’re gonna drag my name through the ditch
I don’t mind if you find the outfit hard to forgive
I don’t care if you go and come back when I am rich
I’m gonna live
I, bitch
Look deep into these eyes
If you can get your gaze that high
I don’t apologize ‘cause your little violin just won’t wet my eye
No more Mr. Nice Girl
I’m through being polite
The fight is tonight
Tomorrow, I hold up the sky
I, bitch
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Untraceable
03:55
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Are you ready to rise like a thousand suns?
Are you ready to shine for the shrouded ones?
There’s only so far you can go with a rainbow
Some see the colours, some only see red
You came like a star, don’t go as a Jane Doe
Unsung, unloved, unremembered, untraceable
Are you all set to meet the unmet friend?
Have you got the juice for an uneasy truce to end?
Remain at your post, hold your formation
Stand where we can see you, stay in the light
For country and queen obey this regulation
No one here goes home alone tonight, untraceable
Bring yourself to the day
Leave the dark to the anguished
Tell me what you’re made of
Show me your might
We can stand fast or stand still and be vanquished
But we can’t go down without a fight, untraceable
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3. |
For The Asking
03:55
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Have you seen your heart?
’Cause it looks like it's breaking
Don't look away
It won't take a minute
Hearts break this way
If you're speaking your part and your voice is shaking
Distance has a way of saying the thing you can’t say
20,000 leagues from the scene of your so-called birth
Lies a regal square of earth
For its first queen and last king
Waiting there
There for the asking
Are we weary yet of the blank verses reeled off in our name?
Spoken, outspoken, so loud and so lame
Free to forget their particular curse is thinking we’re all the same
One hot date, one live wire, one dead name, one hundred million miles from the need for a secret face
Witnesses stand each in place for the final unmasking
They stand for you there, witnesses for the asking
Must I choose or choose to pretend?
And which one means good news at the end?
Getting out gets wise when the lies hit a three-plus peak
Here the loudest thing we speak is truth everlasting
And it’s waiting to be told
For the asking
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4. |
Yours
03:47
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You’ve been in the wars
And those two little doors
Won’t keep you from yours
Dearest of ones
Get up, it’s a school day
Nearest of suns
You’re definitely not okay
We’ve got the room on all fours
Another carload of unendurable bores
You’ve been in the wars
A gaggle of sophomores
Between you and yours
Dearest of friends
Get down, it’s a school night
We’re burning it at both ends
We’re definitely not all right
And if they get in our drawers
And things go off-course
Ride for that pair of white doors
And if you come off your horse
It won’t matter, of course
Happy landings at yours
You may fling woo at Delilah until your fingers are raw
You may subside on the Roche-Bobois
It doesn’t matter who scores
Because two little doors
Can’t keep you from
Shan’t keep you from
Yours
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5. |
Girl Enough
04:11
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All God’s palookas get a heart, a neck, a code, a rule
I’ll break every one you’ve got
I’ll pull your hair
I don’t fight fair
I’m not what’s taught in school
They shoo wrong girls away
But they don’t say the right ones ain’t so hot
Being a runaway isn’t all child’s play
They made us the same way
Fight the woman you can see, not the one I’m going to be
It’s not as though you don’t know the first thing about me
You can say that I’m all show
You can say I play too rough
You know you know you can’t say I’m not girl enough
Have you heard the one about the one who came to fix me
She got nothing for her pain
I’ll take my chances with that catchweight that can’t wait to nix me
I didn’t just arrive to take a dive at the first sign of rain
Put a right to the body if you don’t love what you see
It’s not as though you know every last thing about me
Tell me I am just okay
That I don’t possess the stuff
Have your say
But don’t tell me I’m not girl enough
I don’t need the explainer
I’m not your speed
I’m your entertainer
You can’t kid an old campaigner
What a ticket we would make
Every last card girl’s toe curled
It’s not as though we have all the time in the world
At the conclusion of the bout when you’re toughest of the tough
I’m down, not out
You just can’t knock out this
Girl enough
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6. |
Wolf At The Door
05:14
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When the long day closes in
And the night begins to fall
Something’s there to warm itself
Up against your bedroom wall
She comes for the dying
She comes for the living
There for the taking, not for the giving
Now you can’t wait any more for the wolf at the door
What are you worrying for but the wolf at the door?
A life so unforgiving it’s not even living
If the shark has teeth like razors
Children don’t go near the shore
As the wolf just looks over your shoulder
And waits for you to hit the floor
You won’t hear her ringing
You won’t see her come in
Pain is a detail when they make you a woman
You can’t just live anymore with the wolf at the door
is it you you’re living for, or the wolf at the door?
A season so unforgiving we’re not really living
So you can go on lying or you can go on living
Let there be no more crying
Let there be no misgiving
That for the dying
This for the living
So why should you wait
and lay down all you adore
for the wolf at the door?
What are you lingering for?
That’s the world out your door
And she made it unforgiving
So you know
That you’re living
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Transstar Guelph, Ontario
Transstar builds bold beats and sings twisted pop.
Transstar has made original electronic
pop since always. CBC's Brave New Waves aired her cassette demos in the 1980s. She released a beat-free electronic CD, Score For Life" in 1997. Transstar is the creator of Blackball, which delivers electronic music to at-risk community members.
Transstar is proud to be on the independent Park Music label.
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