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Sadie Hawkins

by The Raised By Wolves

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Every night I fall asleep On the promise I alone will die with the secrets that I keep Wake up on the wrong side of the bed Hum a couple bars of "you are so beautiful to me..." Where will I be when that howl fades to a whisper Thoughts that should be x'd off by now cut like scissors Can't stop thinking about the things that come in twos You see, I never looked too good in the black and blues Or walking a mile in somebody else's shoes The air may be thin, but you've always got the view I close my fishbowl eyes And swallow, there are so many... And when your life flashes before your eyes I will wait in the peripheries
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That lead foot could not help itself I pushed that pedal to the metal And felt that four on the floor Five minutes to burn it to that new black That palm tree ash Because my present's got a bad habit of turning into my past What's not quite in our human nature lies Dormant in our wilderness Night owls that will live forever Might never see another sunrise Drive this car from Los Angeles into the blue God rest his soul, they moved his tomb to the Louvre And even when all your nightmares came true I never meant to hurt you
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There's no vacancy for young souls, just old breeds You didn't need much time to pick that lock Just a chance to turn the key Another year older, I turn for the worse too But the hardest part ain't doing what I do, it's watching you It seems to me to be a scene I could have seen the night before Just Halloween and make believe from 17 to 34 A photo finish that I could have called right from the start The time we spent together passes like the time we spent apart Wallflowers in bloom
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No one man is an island So burn every bridge, sink every ship Because it's when no one wants to be saved That I refuse to quit One foot in the grave, but you still have five to go Run for your life because the sleepwalk will take its toll Come Thursday, take the bus a few hours south to see you But you won't look like you used to Because when it's your daddy's plastic, your mommy's perfume It's your night until their curfew Here the trees are few and far between But they seem as green as they've ever been Some American girls wish they were French girls And most American boys ought to blacken out their mirrors
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Look at the stars through the eyes of a stranger The world, it revolves around black holes on a tilted axis And now I've got neck pains from perpetual cranes For a glimpse of that aurora borealis Lightning rod for controversy A man worried about his legacy Descending from the pyramids of Giza To someone's dirty magazines And sometimes I wonder What the weight of the world might feel like It might feel heavy It just might hurt Groomed to be the golden child The one who could do no wrong But nobody wants to hear Such an incessant love song
6.
I could never quite pull it off Because the haircut and painted on jeans Seemed to be never enough They said, "you should be ashamed of those teeth Hide them and stain them with the flavor of the week" And when they said, "there's nothing new under the sun" I sang to the moon to turn it blue And in my veins the tides are coming in It wasn't so much the spilling as it was the spreading thin She was standing alone again in that little black dress And if she became a silhouette, that would have been best Because I was cut from a different cloth See, I did not put on airs I was no one And she was aware There lives a stranger inside of me that you will never know Because a heavy hard heart is worth its weight in gold I'd never ever leave a stone unturned And I never didn't love a girl who loved me first And I could never be your one and only Be your one and only lonely one
7.
Mary, please marry me I want to spend all my summers with you Nothing will suffice in lieu Some diehards become deadbeats With a promise they've forgotten but still keep Wherever I go, wear you like the new black And those colors run deep, so I'll always run back Everywhere I go, it reminds me of you So forget this dog day doom and gloom, this labor day's loom Because you look good in white So let's start a new life One that's different from the one that started when I was Just shy of nine Take me to the place where the wild horses run Because I've waited my whole life to feel this young
8.
Triple six'd revisionists chip, chip away At the words written in stone While once hostile apostles Retreat when the quarterback's overthrown A butterfly too beautiful not to be framed So pin her wings down and there she'll stay Now dozens line the walls of the hallway It's golden feng shui for when the glitter fades Now I don't want to dance Don't want to reminisce Champagne nostalgia trance Still it's not you I miss Because all the girls I went to school with Their blood, it tastes the same
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Haven't paid the bills for months So what do I expect Not quite in fighting shape The darkness comes along and I'm a wreck It may be armageddon But I'll still sleep till 11 Because when hell freezes over It'll be awfully congested in heaven Throw your own change in the fountain I'm wishing for more of the same "How have your days been these days?" I have the broken heart of a lion domesticate I'd like to be somebody But nobody who's somebody Became somebody doing nothing Crocodile tears fall and flood the Nile Lend me deaf ears for my teenage rile It's nothing new This nothing I do I watch the TV screen By the light of the moon

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New music video for "Freddy Freaker" out now!
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"The Raised By Wolves have found a way to take that decidedly 90′s simplistic pop sensibility and modernize it with a youthful energy and awareness to create a song that feels both classic and refreshing." - All Things Go

"It’s a very melody-driven record, and yet, the material as a whole dodges and weaves in atypical fashion. And this is a very good thing…Listening to Sadie Hawkins for the first time is one of those magical musical moments that just hurtles at you from out of the blue." - Indie-Music

"The Raised By Wolves are two lifelong friends...and on Hawkins that easy familiarity with one another's music styles shine through." - The Village Voice

“Fun-loving indie rock” – The Washington Post

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released July 23, 2013

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Written, Recorded, and Produced by The Raised By Wolves

Mixed by Keny Ruyter at East Coast Bands in Gaithersburg, MD
Mastered by Bill Wolf at Wolf Productions in Arlington, VA
Album Artwork by James Robertson and The Raised By Wolves

All Music by The Raised By Wolves
All Lyrics by Dusty Durston

The Raised By Wolves are...

Dusty Durston - Vocals, Drums, Percussion
Ben Eskin - Guitar, Bass, Keys, Backing Vocals

From the godforsaken basement...

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