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All Seats Provide Equal Viewing of the Universe

by Molly Bolten & The Night Kitchen Experiment

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1.
Casablanca 06:29
Of all the gin joints In all the towns in all the world Here I am watching Casablanca In a hospital ward With one kind nurse Who’s been assigned to take good care of me I’m quiet and polite But somehow I can barely breathe CHORUS Here’s looking at me, kid Here’s looking at me Here’s looking at me, kid Here’s looking at me, though my eyes can’t see Tell Ingrid Bergman I would like to speak to her alone And while you’re at it See if Humphrey Bogart is at home I’ll ask them how they got To be so dark and wonderful I’ll find one use for all my sorrows and I’ll sell my soul CHORUS As time goes by I try to find my music in my head But it is nowhere to be found So I can’t go to bed These doctors try To see the inside of my candy shell They call me by my Christian name Cause they don’t know me well CHORUS
2.
One day when you’re old, when you’re ancient, you’ll know what it means to be at home The levees will break on the banks of your cautionary soul When you die, all the pets you’ve ever had will meet you on the other side of life Your previous mistakes will build a doorway in between the day and night The never-ending sound that filled your life will give you never-ending light CHORUS You know why I’ve come home again To show you what you’ve missed again I’ve grown up quickly, faster than you You’ll know me dearly, farther from you And oh no, give me some room I’m on my way to the promised land I’m tired of waiting for you so you can let go of my hand You speak like a modest-mouthed savior a gift to the people of the earth like holy water runs from the tap in the place you call your world When I rise I’ll be stronger than before and kill you with the kindness we deserve The bridges that I burned will be rebuilt, more protected, more secure The lessons I have learned will guide me in a new direction from before CHORUS You know and I know that something has just got to give Kicking and screaming is fine but it’s no way to live I’m running forward and not looking back This chapter’s ending and fading to black You’re on your own now I’m dropping your slack and I’m home
3.
Wind 04:50
In the morning light I stretch my legs wash my face and clear my head of the dreams that make me see my mind for what it’s worth from the inside As the sunlight reaches through my room Inch by inch until noon There’s a thing that makes me fall in line roll the dice and check the time CHORUS I wind my watch and let it run but if I didn’t, would the sun stay in the sky? Would my poems cease to rhyme? I hold the power in my hand to make our moments all expand into a life We could live our Fridays twice There’s a destiny for this machine: tell my story scene by scene And it never fails to do its part even ticking in the dark When the ticking stops I feel my bones moving slow, moving home And the thing that makes me fall in line rolls the dice and stops my time CHORUS
4.
Ingredients 03:07
We love our 3 a.m. We do it better There’s always chicken in the fryer Get the pepper I’m sitting on the counter Swinging my feet As far as I’m concerned I’ve got the greatest seat CHORUS You know that food is love It’s never just a product of ingredients In our night kitchen we just Make it our religion to be disobedient In our inebriated state We do our best To love each other and our food To make and clean our mess There’s nowhere I would rather be Even my bed I’m busy writing down These moments in my head CHORUS So tell me when is the next time That you’ll be high inside a mansion Cooking burgers with your friends In an industrial-sized kitchen And when was the last time You really thought you had it all When “all” is just that you’re content A happiness so small A happiness so small CHORUS
5.
Normal Beast 06:04
Two sticks in my eyes pulling my vision down, by surprise The soles, the soles of your shoes are coming unglued from you, unglued CHORUS When the storm has passed the ships align You’ll have ten toes and fingers just like mine Everything and nothing will be fine when the beast of normalcy arrives Steel under my skin is making the rules for him, for him Twice he’s heard it before I told him the gate’s been closed, I’m sure CHORUS Waiting for a confirmation, mind is full of information Capitals and math equations, spinning round like drain invasions Holy rollers, figure eights, majesty of bad first dates I never took you for a quitter Life is short so make it glitter Oh—it makes things very hard when I call myself someone very far and oh—there’ll never be a me if I keep hiding me from me Hell-bent on demise holding my failure close by my side Wait, I’m trying to see how it is possible that we breathe CHORUS
6.
Azure 09:12
Bare feet, big hands, and one thick skin I was listening to your broken record spin I hung my sorrows by the door But they followed me in your house and to the floor I hope you know I loved you best When I lay my head down in its groove on your chest We stayed for hours in that field Till reality came back, biting at our heels CHORUS There’s never been a truer blue Than the azure I see when I remember you I met you in the bitter cold I just wanted a good warm body I could hold But then I came to understand You were more than one body, you were one good man I feel your smile on my lips Then I catch myself hoping, wishing for a fix As if I stepped out of the sea With the salt on my skin still clinging onto me CHORUS
7.
Zero Sum 05:22
You always have a way to make me smile Even when I’m not having a good time It’s cruel of you to understand my mind Why don’t you just stick to your own kind CHORUS You’re winning just by losing me I’m losing just by winning you So let’s agree to disagree That zero sum is bad for two I like your sense of humor, dry as bone But when it’s misdirected watch your tone These days we’ve been a very funny joke But soon we’ll have to reap the seeds we sow CHORUS You’re the hook in my eye You’re the pain in my back You’re the hate that I love And the love that I lack You’re a delicate boy Not a generous man And you’re bringing me down Just by holding my hand The innocence of our first love is gone And with it all the water in the pond We drank it up; it made our bodies strong And gave me all the words to write this song CHORUS

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released April 1, 2014

Molly Bolten - lead vocals, guitar
Ben Cruz - guitar
Logan Roth - keyboard
Conor McGrory - bass
Arjun Dube - drums
Divya Farias - alto saxophone
Reuben Shorser - trumpet
Charmaine Lee - vocals

All songs © Molly Bolten 2014 (ASCAP)
Produced by Molly Bolten
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Molly Bolten & Quinn Collins
Album artwork by Molly Bolten

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