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Femme Vitale (some hallucinatory reflections on the erotic geology of new york city)

from Instead of Sad Songs by Neanderthal Woman

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lyrics

New York girl
New York night
Heart that's ready for love
in a body that's ready for fight-or-flight

Brooklyn kid
Let me in
It's like an ocean in this New York rain
and I've forgotten how to swim

The city births its brood
The city wises up its kids
The city pours its noise into our bum right ears
so how come it feels as quiet as this

On a New York night
To be a New York girl
On a planet that is just New York
on an ocean around the world

Femme vitale
What you do to me
And what's become of you
You're a living thing

Well, you know that love has power
But you also know that love helps those
Who help themselves, so you keep a
knife in your underclothes

And I will watch you from
The safety of your sheets
And as you take the last thread off, the knife
vlatters to your feet

Femme vitale,
I guess you make me sing
But what's become of me
Am I a living thing

I'd say the water of life
Was in the tears you cried
Dead at the moment that I realized
that there was nothing that I wanted to hide

Just like the water that the rabbi walked on
Thick as the Gowanus Canal
I could be floating on a dead, dead sea
and still be living for my femme vitale

Femme vitale
What you do to me
The granite underneath
Becomes a living thing

Femme vitale
What you do to me
The water underneath
It's under everything
It's under you and me my femme vitale

credits

from Instead of Sad Songs, released April 25, 2021
Helena Very - vocals, piano, wurly, glock, Hammond organ
Eva Lawitts - bass
Chris Krasnow - guitar, drums

engineered and produced by Chris Krasnow and Eva Lawitts, Wonderpark Studios

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