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Place me on the windowsill

by Puppy Parlor

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place me on the windowsill to gather dust in the corner of your mind, never heart allow me to decompose you grafted love unto my branches but now I have grown apart I'm giving it an honest go I'm giving it an honest start
2.
I wanna blast out my eardrums and ask you many questions are the photos of us still hung up or did you tear them into pieces? have you found your way to happiness or is that best left a secret? one day you'll open up your drawer and see the letter that I wrote the one where I said I'd take a risk where love stuttered in my throat you'll hesitate and close it back and never look at it again or set it on fire burn up the kind words that I sent I think that we still talk but it doesn't feel quite the same i'll gather dust on your shelf or hang like a picture frame you never let me in your heart no one ever said you had to but you made a mess of what I had like a dirty hotel room
3.
Sweet 02:19
shoutout to brandon (blue ambient) for sipping on a beverage while I recorded this ---------------------------------------------------------------- cherry stems in your bed forget me when I'm dead love me, just in your head forget me when I'm dead hide your heart under the kitchen sink remove your jaw to avoid speaking do you think next ear the stems and seeds will bud into a tree? did you think next year you'd find a friend in me? I think that's pretty sweet
4.
Mice party! 01:55
toothache prolonged three days flesh columns of a sad estate I never had the time of day for anyone except the mice who played in my grandmother's yard drinking phosphate descry distaste writ sects bred of red paint corduroy to match our growing pains
5.
October 02:09
you cut your hair your eyes made visible I dusted off my quiet state of being in exchange for a newfound effort you said "you don't have to be worried, I'm okay" I swore I'd say the same
6.
Sticks 02:43
I tried to hold back everything that I didn't really like about myself it didn't work out too well and that's when I said I should eat dinner but I knew that I'd just let it stay cold No use wasting what I could sleep through 7. Transient 02:26
7.
Transient 02:26
originally released on a split with the cool n talented artist Saint Tomorrow -------------------------------------------------- I will model my home just like a hotel room every night I arrive a stranger every morning, bid my depart I did nothing for it nothing for me lacking in all memory mundane enough to serve its purpose yet with glimmers of half-attempted Xenia another place to dissociate because I'be been made to feel like someone available for only a night not to be remembered or recalled nor somewhere filled with memory, most of all "good morning" didja sleep well? head over heels fall to the ground you always smelled of strawberry lipgloss and artificial love
8.
inspired from a lovely conversation I had in late winter of this year, a little chunk of it's in the lyric section --------------------------------------------------------- "...and for the sun to shine" so soon and we'll be able to appreciate it all "we'll get to go on walks without coats" and the whole world will be in bloom for a bit
9.
Lullaby 03:02
talking like we used to before things changed but now the words tend to make your chest ache do you remember when we walked across your campus and sat by the lake? I should've held your hand but my courage left before you did the day we spent is gone but you're not but my hopes are hanging higher than my head
10.
sample at the beginning from Peter Pan ----------------------------------------- love is something we contrived I'm sorry it's conflicting I still wish he was by my side but I feel like that's attrition my heart is full of butterflies in my stomach, a sick feeling I am ready to nosedive I am floating through the ceiling you thought that you read like Danielewski well if it wasn't all thanks to your eyes I wouldn't know your doing it's kinda dumb you thought that I wasn't pursuing we could cast our eyes to the sky we won't know why I've never met a heart so kind it's kind of like I've never had a heart like mine that told a lie I've never had a heart so kind I never tried but I'll do it if you take mine I wouldn't mind
11.
listen to this with only one earbud in, i dare u. different poems in each ear. <3 ------------------------------------------- Left ear: my interest in you at last decays as spring begins a lazy haze and sweet sceneries approach I would ask if you have noticed but I realized that I've grown and I wouldn't quite care, even had you known you shouldn't feel proud I'm almost sure you don't I've grown, I've grown, I've grown winters flown; we're both left alone digging ground is productivity so build yourself a moat let the soil become fertile but not to serve as bed for your thinning bones you too have grown, you too have grown don't let this weather turn you to stone don't let the clouds mask the sunlight shown and don't let the songbirds sounds low'r your softening tone ----------------------------------------------------------------- Right ear: she asks if we're close and I tell her I don't know another sings loudly in my ear but I try not to mind I don't have much to say and I'm out of words to write I look up and I smile. I imagine it on film. grains are revealed from a sunny exposure. my body is then wrenched forward and the slam of my frame through the glass does not echo. I do not shatter against the concrete like porcelain but jolt with a sudden cease of motion. my neck snaps from whiplash and my mouth continues to move, as if mouthing a prayer or gasping for air. perhaps one in the same. beyond the wall, my old backyard. I've never seen a valley, I wouldn't know it if I had. it's only natural to feel this way and it's only right to look up and smile.

about

Puppy Parlor's "Place me on the windowsill" is simple, sincere, & almost childlike lo-fi music. (in the best way). It's not hard to find something to admire in his music. Whether it be the moments of genius rhetoric, the vulnerable voice, or the excitement of hearing into someone else's strange, pretty world. Unawkwardly straightforward, compellingly beautiful; Puppy Parlor's newest album is clever & universal.

written spring break 2019 - summer 2019

recorded on the carpet of my bedroom and in the front seat of a 1995 honda accord

praise for the fact we're organic.
doxology for the fact we'll gather dust.
a series of mumbles for the fact we're all still figuring out how to love. it takes a lot more than sunlight and water.

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released August 3, 2019

released August 3, 2019

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dedicated to every plant that sprouted new buds this spring, and the ones who tried but didn't quite make it

dedicated to every bud that sprouted this spring too, and the ones who keep trying!

thanks zacry (pitychild) for letting me borrow his interface for a bit
thanks zac, Ivette, Darby, Matt, Em Barks, Anita, Kelb, Savannah, Ben, and everyone else who've been supportive

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