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Tender Resignation

by Dyke Drama

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1.
Roll over, hit snooze. There's always time to lose. Hydrate your migraine, paint your nails, lick your wounds. Take a bath for an hour and a half, tuck it back, close your eyes... can't a girl fantasize? I wasn't born to lose, I wasn't born to lose I wasn't born to lose, I wasn't... Tuck it back, out of view with all the things you didn't choose that chose you. I wasn't born to lose, I wasn't born to lose I wasn't born to lose it's just the thing I do best it's the thing I do best.
2.
Running with the pack, they had my back-- a bat to the head when the enemy attacked. East Coast Bad Boys violence in my name, not a real friend to be had. Seven years in the gutter, seven years blacked out on the floor Seven years staring down the barrel the hardest years for sure. Hey boys, I dunno what to say anymore. Charged hair. Blank stares. I need a little, a little more support. A little more support. Yeah. Seven years in the gutter, seven years blacked out on the floor. Seven years staring down the barrel the hardest years for sure. Seven years in the gutter, seven years blacked out on the floor. Seven years staring down the barrel the hardest years for sure. The hardest years.
3.
Watching you dig your thumbnail into that rotten wood rail while you tried to tell me that our ship had sailed Ya said I'd be good for you for once I agreed a rare and privileged sighting of my self-esteem Be gentle with this heart, it's been disregarded Sometimes walking clears my head. then you come along and fill it up again. I spent the whole day in my fucking bed. It seems you spent most of your day walking through my head. Be gentle with this heart, it's been disregarded. You got the pain I got the keys like Thelma & Louise won't you take a chance on me Take a chance on me.
4.
Do you handle disappointment with a handle full of poison? Do you cut the lights and cry like me? Do you wonder what could be saying "it's not you, it's me" cut it off before we ever leave the station. And I'm just sayin' you got your reasons and I believe 'em but I'm just sayin'. Are you daunted by the past haunted and aghast that someone might treat you good? Are you standing in the kitchen staring at the dirty dishes daydreaming of a dream of a dream where ya kissed me? And I'm just sayin' you got your reasons and I believe 'em but all I'm sayin's I'm just sayin'.
5.
Sidestep the puke and broken glass-- no longer tied to that track. Suicidal patterns get hung out in the past. In your truck, I feel the rush, my blood is hot with what we've done in my head since I got into this mess. All I want to say is do you feel the way we share this space? But all I'm gonna say is "hey". And if I spit it out you'll be sweet when you let me down. It's not the silence I can't take, it's the sad look on your face it's the way we sit and talk like everything's ok. All I want to say is do you feel the way we share this space? But all I'm gonna say is "hey". Say the god damn thing. Just say the god damn thing.
6.
I don't know what I'm 'sposed to do but I don't wanna get over you. I don't know what I'm 'sposed to do but I don't wanna get over you. Crying in a bathroom stall, diggin' my head into the wall. Crying in a bathroom stall oh, oh. Crying in a bathroom stall, shoulda read the writing on the wall. Crying in a bathroom stall. oh, oh. I don't know how I'm gonna live how I'm gonna live through this. You said you can't take the risk but baby life is short, I want all of it. And I don't know what I'm 'sposed to do. But I don't wanna get over you. I hope what you chose is right. I hope you sleep through every night. No more pain in your beat up life. Don't worry about me, I do just fine I'm just puttin' in my time crying in a bathroom stall, diggin' my head into the wall. Crying in a bathroom stall, oh, oh. Crying in a bathroom stall, shoulda read the writing on the wall, in a bathroom stall: "Do all tall girls die alone?" "All tall girls die alone."

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Dyke Drama is the solo project of Sadie Switchblade (G.L.O.S.S., Peeple Watchin', Baja Blatz, etc.) She played drums, bass, guitars, tambourine, and sang. Joey Seward played the organ. Vicky Cassis and Rosie Richeson sang backup on "The Thing I Do Best" and "Thelma & Louise".

Tender Resignation was recorded with love and patience by Joey Seward at Punkall in Olympia, WA, during the summer of 2015, on broken and borrowed gear.

Album photos by Julaya Antolin

Layout by Tannrr

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Tender Resignation 12" EP forthcoming on Salinas Records: www.salinasrecords.com

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released November 16, 2015

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