Im a believer bass tabs8/13/2023 Half-funny, half-tragic dispatches from North Carolina unfurling somewhere between the wailing skuzz of Nineties shoegaze and classic country twang, that distorted lap steel and Hartzman’s voice slicing through the din. Across the album’s ten tracks Hartzman, guitarist MJ Lenderman, bassist Margo Shultz, drummer Alan Miller, and lap/pedal steel player Xandy Chelmis build a shrine to minutiae. Rat Saw God, the Asheville quintet’s new and best record, is ekphrastic but autobiographical and above all, deeply empathetic. Karly Hartzman, the songwriter/vocalist/guitarist at the helm of the project, is a story collector as much as she is a storyteller: a scholar of people and one-liners. A short story collection, a half-memory, a patchwork of portraits of the American south, disparate moments that somehow make sense as a whole. We gathered in the tall grass and watched unblinking as they cuffed em and hauled em awayĪ Wednesday song is a quilt. They pulled guns and cocaine from the dry wall wrapped in newspaper When they busted in they found that her house was a front for a mob thing Somebody called the cops soon Mandy and her boyfriend The sweet talk never lasts and we learn to go on without it The kid from the Jewish family got the preachers kid pregnantīut they sent her off and we never heard too much more about it Georgie set fire to acres of cotton setting off model rockets They have scoliosis from constants slumps in miseryįlat parts on their crew cuts from laying their heads on their knees The Kletz brothers parents fight in the yard in their underwearīobby and Jimmy sit in the baby pool with lice in their hair She says "America's a spoiled child that's ignorant of grief"īut then she gives out full sized candy bars on Halloween Sits caddy corner to the aftershock from the Quarry The rain rotted house on the dead end of Baytree old bitter lady Thank god that I was chosen to deserve you,Ĭause I was the girl you were chosen to deserve Now everywhere is loneliness and it’s in everything Now all the drugs are getting kind of boring to me Watered down all the liquor and then pissed outside in the street I went to school about 3 days out of the week If you’re lookin for me I’m in the back of an SUVĭoin it in some cul-de-sac underneath a dogwood tree Then i woke up early and taught at the sunday school I was out late sneaking into the neighborhood pool They took him over to the hospital and told us he was lucky to survive One of those times my friend took a little too much My friends all took Benadryl til they could see shit crawlin up the walls I used to drink til I threw up on week nights at my parents house Just so you know what you’ve been chosen to deserve Just so you know what you signed up for what you’re dealin with So now that it’s been awhile I’ll get around to tellin you all my worst We always started by tellin all our best stories first
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