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Thickly Settled

by Mary Prankster

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1.
Whatsa matter baby, goin’ outta your mind? ‘Cause you can never quite tell if you’re ahead or behind Me, I shook my family and quit my friends Took a one-way trip to where the rainbow ends I’m the wicked witch, I’m the maiden fair I’m the best-laid plans of your worst nightmare ‘Cause I’m a Rock N Roll Degenerate Thirty years of education taught me some shit But I never did learn baby, when to quit See, there ain’t no stoppin’ this run I’ve had ‘Cause I’m too damn good and that’s too damn bad I’m the best defense, I’m a real good time And I ain’t too pressed that I’m past my prime ‘Cause I’m a Rock N Roll Degenerate I’m the wicked witch, I’m the maiden fair I’m the best-laid plans of your worst nightmare I’m the best defense, I’m a real good time And I ain’t too pressed that I’m past my prime I’m the coming storm, I’m the going rate I’m an act of God, I’m the hand of Fate When it comes to pass, you will come to find I’m the first in the class of the last of my kind ‘Cause I’m a Rock N Roll Degenerate I sold my soul to the gig economy
2.
Local Honey 02:24
Tell me what ails you Tell me what’s wrong Tell me who failed you Strung you along How did it happen? Who do you long to be? Write on a napkin Send it to me Tell me what ails you Tell me what’s wrong Tell me who failed you Strung you along You a believer? Did you want something more? You got the fever I got the cure Local Honey Tell me what eats you Let’s make it right Tell me what keeps you Awake in the night You a believer? Did you want something more? You got the fever I got the cure Local Honey
3.
I Got Mine 02:53
I’m dumb, but I’m rich So I’m dangerous I fail up, I get over I’m just fine I don’t learn, and I lie I don’t earn, but I buy You mad? Too bad I got mine Got me an internship (Don’t have to work for money) And then I up and quit (Can’t tell me what to do) Got in the Ivy League (I didn’t even study) And then I went exec (A corner office too) The hand that signs the check (In case you missed it, honey) Is gonna write the rules (Woo-hoo!) Bought me a politish (Shook out the couch for quarters) To grant my every wish (And keep the rabble down) And if you got an ish (I got my own reporters) I’ll say it’s just sedish (I’m gonna keep the crown) A little bait and switch (They only follow orders) Is how you run this town (Woo-hoo!) You’re right It ain’t fair So go fight I don’t care Stay woke You’re still broke I got mine
4.
Sweet Beet 02:45
You can be a boy, you can be a girl You can be a kind of person new to the world Oh, you’re my sweet beet And I love you the way you are You can be a guy, you can be a gal Baby, I can’t lie – you are my favorite pal Oh, you’re my sweet beet And I love you the way you are Mr., Mx. or Mrs. New or a different name Still give you hugs and kisses And I’ll love you just the same You can be a king, you can be a queen You can be somebody who’s somewhere in-between Oh you’re my sweet beet And I love you the way you are Stick or automatic Wedding gown or tux Won’t give you any static And you look like a million bucks You can be a he, you can be a she You can be a they and we will always be a we ‘Cause you’re my sweet beet And I love you the way you are
5.
The Thing 05:36
Do that thing I want the thing To do the thing But I can’t make the thing Do the thing That I want it to do Got time left? Do what you want Got nothin’? Got nothin’ but time All the things and all the things again
6.
What other lovers could be so close And diametrically opposed? I stream your colors, I crack your code And I run for cover when you’re ready to explode This is the system here in our frustration nation Limits of persistence in the powers of persuasion And when it’s working, even though my flaw It’s heat lightning all night and sugar in the raw So thickly settled and what a thrill Continental breakfast with some analytic phil Unstuck in time, perfectly still You don’t understand me, baby - ain’t nobody will Taking a tangent off of a digression session Hoping for some credit or an honorable mention Oh my aching body, oh my aching jaw Sweet heat lightning all night and sugar in the raw
7.
Gaining unfamiliar ground While we wind our way out of the woods With the madness in the sound Just a method for getting the goods Don’t believe you when you say It was only a moment of doubt But I love you anyway And I know we can figure it out I’m not sorry that I came But I don’t think we feel the same Not entirely to blame I don’t think we feel the same Gonna take me by the hand Like you done since forever ago Got me striking up the band For a dance with the devil I know You’re no stranger to acclaim And the praise didn’t phase me a bit Knew me by a different name And I never got used to it I’m not sorry that I came But I don’t think we feel the same More the pity, such a shame I don’t think we feel the same
8.
Clownin' 02:48
Don’t need to see your features, I know what you are One of them creatures squeezing legions from a car Your rictus grinning doesn’t spin a spell on me Giving me shivers when I hear the charivari Midway between the thing and imminent disaster If there’s a ring you can be sure that there’s a master I saw the elephant – you swore it was a mouse Making my escapin’ while you’re papering the house Because you’re clownin’ Bit of business getting twisted ‘til it’s done A liberation decimates your ten-in-one We got a fault, it’s lying well beneath the stars There ain’t no arte in this commedia of ours Overextended with the tension of a guy wire Without a net to catch a Herbie from the high wire All out and over got a handle on the brakes Lammin’ on ya, Larry and I’m pulling up the stakes Because you’re clownin’ It ain’t a theory, dearie – said it ‘cause I know so On like a zanni but you’re acting like a bozo There’s only ever been two stories goin’ ‘round A man goes on a journey and the circus comes to town And now you’re clownin’ You’re gonna go all-in But you’re no harlequin I’m done with dukkerin’ Step right up and hear another reason
9.
Don't Gotta 02:33
I would’ve cared for you in sickness and in health Stood by your side in times of poverty and wealth But if the little voice inside can be believed I’m secretly relieved that I won’t have to I was prepared to share in all that happened hence Through fortunes foul and fair and family events But if the universe works in benevolence It makes a lot of sense that I won’t have to It doesn’t denigrate the happiness we had To terminate makes neither party good nor bad An unfamiliar fate awaits, awake and strange Love is no inoculation to the strain of change I’ll make the best of it this respite will allow I’ll live to love again, surprised I still know how You’re free to spin your wheels in other circles now Oh why? I mean, oh wow! Yeah, I won’t have to
10.
Did you pay your mourning dues? Did you make the evening nous? Have you been? Have you gone? Did the symptoms linger on? Did you back? Did you forth? Did you find Magnetic North? And do you feel - do you feel the Blues? Expect the spirit to move you any day now Expect the practice to improve you any day now Expect the power to compel you any day now Expect your demons to expel you any day now Did you give all you had? Did you forgive your mom and dad? Did you bend? Did you break? Did you sleepwalk wide awake? Did you show? Did you tell? Did you know it just as well? And do you feel? Do you feel? Expect the chair to recognize you any day now Expect the parties to surprise you any day now Expect your trials to acquit you any day now Expect forgiveness to permit you any day now When you’re down and out and all hope is gone And you’re fighting your way out of hell And I’m failing you like the way I do Like I know so much better myself And encouragement would be heaven-sent From the one in your corner well then I will Lady MacBeth you from here to your death (come what come may) ‘Cause I love you forever and ever and ever amen Expect perdition to disown you any day now Expect ambition to enthrone you any day now Expect the planets to align you any day now Expect the challenge to refine you any day now Expect the pilot to ignite you any day now Expect the riot to incite you any day now Expect the muse to come upon you any day now Expect conclusion to foregone you any day now

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Cult chanteuse returns for a rollicking cross-country road-trip with a freeform station on the radio and Mary at the wheel.

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released November 1, 2019

Music and Lyrics By Mary Prankster

Produced by Steve Wright and Mary Prankster
Engineered by Steve Wright
Assistant Engineer – Paul Mercer
Recorded at Wright Way Studios - Baltimore, Maryland

Mastered by Tony Eichler, at GoldTone Masterworks - Fort Myers, Florida

Vocals - Mary Prankster
Guitar/Vocals - Bryan Ewald
Electric Bass/Upright Bass/Piano/Vocals - Walker Teret
Drums/Vocals - Jason Butcher

Organ/Keyboards - Bronson Hoover
Trumpet - Nick Reider
Trombone - Craig Considine
Alto Sax/Baritone Sax - Russ Kirk
Fiddle - Amy Shook

The Bellevederes are:
Kelly Butcher - Vocals
Denny Finnerin - Vocals
Rose Hammer-Burt - Baritone sax
Tiffany DeFoe - Tenor sax
Jimmy Baseman - Trumpet
EJ Shaull-Thompson - Drums
Bronson Hoover - Keyboards
Ryan Finnerin - Bass Guitar

Additional Percussion/Rhodes/Vibraphone/Moog - Steve Wright
Additional Preproduction on "I Got Mine" - Seb Roberts

All song copyright 2019 Sic Semper Tyrannus Music/ASCAP
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Lyrically merciless, genre-promiscuous Charm City cult hero with a fanbase of thinking men's men and fierce, god-like women. Sign up for the mailing list at maryprankster.com for info on new tunes and more...

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