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Mannequin

from Midwest Handshake by skittish

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Joey Loops
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Joey Loops This might be about a breakup (I say, asexually), but those lyrics could fit anyone with a pathological need to be liked, which is basically everyone I know including myself. Also, the chorus kicks as- wait hold up am I allowed to swear in these comments? Will that like...get flagged, or something? Uhhhh that chorus slams derrière. It kills keister. It pummels posterior, it beats the freak cheeks, collapses the caboose, atom bomb where Adam bombed, 500 dead, no survivors.
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I kept my hands clean
I kept my heart in rubber
I’m bouncing back mean
From any former lover
I’m burning sage while Alabama psychic
Tells me what to do, you knew I don’t believe
But look at me now, look at me now
I saw the light change
You saw your face in mirror
When talk is dirt cheap
The buyer best beware
“Lets burn the witch” you said
Repeating something that you read
When lights are out we go dancing on the walls of oblivion
Mannequin, Mannequin
Come to life in the night
With a need to be liked
And then here we go again
Coming out like a schizophrenic bout
Shoving fiction through a camera lens
You can be yourself now, no one’s watching
Must we take orders?
Must we trade lines of bullshit?
Making up borders then
Condemning those who cross it
You say you found another way to cope
Well, I’d like to see it
Sucking down pressed pills with a hot shot in it
Mannequin, Mannequin
Come to life in the night
With a need to be liked
And then here we go again
Coming out like a schizophrenic bout
Shoving fiction through a camera lens
You can be yourself now, no one’s watching
Just bend and pose, this could be yours (bought and paid for)
Just bend and pose for me now, this could be yours (bought and paid for)
Come to life in the middle of the night
To be liked, to belong, to be fed
Coming out like a schizophrenic bout
Shoving fiction through a camera lens
You can be yourself now, no one’s watching

credits

from Midwest Handshake, released August 25, 2023
Jeff Noller: Vocals, guitars, samples, percussion
Mark O’Day: Drums
Stephen Murray: Stand Up Bass

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Skittish is folk rock...with thorns.

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