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Etiquette

by Night Nurses

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1.
Dawn 03:01
I remember we were 6 yrs old we used to hunt for ghosts as though the world at large was not enough for us We used to hunt for snakes and bugs as if the human experience was not enough for us Those ghosts caught up with us. I remember finding plastic bags hanging from the tree like ghosts above your street. Just shaking violently. Now we lean into the dawn We were designed to die before we're born So lean into the dawn
2.
So Long 03:51
we're either earling the rockies or going nowhere in our Novas' never and always touching and touched two Sundays fall together by 4 o'clock and the corner of the stations of the cross where u found me caught in a crack between a cry and a laugh in a cup picked up by sweeping gowns and it's useless but regardless we make the same mistakes everyday we write it down and file it away where some young suicide blonde dyed by their own hand in the bathroom again It could take our whole lives It takes so long to say goodbye It could take our whole lives It takes so long It's like we've said it all along you can drag me across the dance floor and I'll dance myself right out the door but if you drag me across the dance floor then I'll dance to the end of the world It could take our whole lives It takes so long to say goodbye It could take our whole lives It takes so long It's like we've said it all along So long
3.
Echo Park 03:40
ur feedback is too loud it's drowning out the flutter and wow u wore me out all over town just dragging our beds around from heart 2 heart to heart 2 heart no one hears the sound ur moving too fast asleep no time to settle down hit play and the tape delay decays each time around u wore me out thru the street we wear our heartbreaks like apostrophes From heart 2 heart to heart 2 heart
4.
(scratching)
5.
Nite Lites 04:30
dancing again overhead gravel underneath glass feet I stand on the bed below a bottle shatters in the street and the Nitelites scatter toward the dark the space between the stars smoke stands still banshee stepping lightly thru black oil rainbows I think I've had a bit too much to dream under Nitelites stranded in the air I'm neither here nor there intoxicated men ruminating over a lost child like harps and angels an illuminated silent corner choir under Nitelites they vanish in thin air they're there then they're not there Does anybody have a light no one around to tell me no sign in the window tells me everything must go and the Nitelites tell me the same thing they say it's later than u think midnight is morning
6.
Battledress 03:22
I keep my knives wrapped in my napkin but I got pricked by a point of pride so I dressed up my wounds disguised as something new these plainclothes are wearing thin Make myself up Put on a cold front. I keep my knives wrapt in my napkin I keep my reservations too myself I mind my ETIQUETTE wrapped in my battledress I'm a party of one again Make myself up Put on a cold front
7.
Two Thieves 04:10
the moon always appears in the strangest place the way it plays upon a strangers face and stranger yet as we get to your step it appears in ur eye u stole the moon out of the sky melt away in the palm of ur hand we're two soft prayers in Jerusalem we never see what's underneath the bed where we pray the moon always appears in the strangest place spilling out on a stream of yellow light adjust myself clean out of sight of the vacant gaze of the big red face w/ the yellow eyes that stole the moon out of the sky two thieves hearts up our sleeves we spent the nights like dimes we stole the moon from the sky
8.
April's Fool 03:30
stealing bottles from abandoned hospitals making out on top of landfills lifetime of cures momentary ills we are spaces yawning in on ourselves children of longing wandering thru these hills on sobby crutches that our fathers built Droopy shoulders stoop like a willow weepy whippoorwills asleep on my pillow lying right next to you Aprils Fool we heard the birds they wrote the songs and we wrote the words each rose so certain of their worth like they were the only ones on earth u told me that a blind bee stung u in ur dream then u asked me what could that mean on the first night u slept next to me but that was it a voice came blaring from a crown vic we felt the backseats black plastic we were 2 shrinking violets if the rain doesn't drown them and the sun doesn't starve them Aprils Fools may flower into a garden
9.
Bath 03:45
step out of the bath dry off my face and hands and look toward the mirror where obscured by fog u stand shapeless and vague u look almost relieved as I wipe u away like we switched shifts for the day and I want to write u but I don't know what 2 say when I try to reveal u I only see my face many days after that I have seen u thru the glass looking out @ me no eyeholes punched in ur mask neither u or I wanna be the first 2 say hi it's been our whole lives why punch a hole in the sky and the rain will sting against my delicate skin I'll draw back the curtain and gaze in the mirror again But this time in the bathroom mirror steam I'll write I can see u I can see u watching me and I love u

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released August 27, 2019

All songs written by Lee Preston
Produced and mixed by Chaimes Parker
Mastered by Bradford Krieger
Recorded at Big Nice Studio in Lincoln, RI.
Cover photo by Sasha Pedro

Night Nurses is Lee Preston & Chaimes Parker, but this album features many talented musicians.

Mike Murdock
Roz Raskin
Ant Savino
Diane Jean
Ian Legge
Muggs Fogarty
June Adam
Dean Forsythe

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