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What's That Smell? (album)

by Bitch and Animal

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1.
Ovumture (In Areola Minor) 03:00
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All hail sparkly queen areola All hail sparkly queen (repeat as needed) Are you an idiot My dearest, my love? Are you a double-crossing gomer? Are you covered in muck? Are you thirsty? Tired? (we are rising up)
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By Morning 03:21
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By morning I'll be gone The highway will welcome me To her warmth Let her arms lay down their guides Let her lead me into the sun I will go softly I do not disturb This rhythm This city This history I leave it behind love Will you be here when I return If I if I If I see you on the street Will you recognize me Will I recognize you The features of your body My body? Your hip-sway walk My wandering eyes Your beat that injects my arms Old lover New friend Past life Will you recognize my smell Rolled through passing towns Like sticky sweet hands? My new words My new eyes My ever-changing skin?
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Scorpio-Lite 02:55
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Take yourself out of the bag You put yourself in Learn every single lesson I am scorpio-lite I am water I move in and out Like the daughter Of the tide I have infinite breath To keep intimate depth That is the lesson I learned from my mother I see the truth in the lies The path before me lies I see the truth in the lies The path before me lies When you lift the disguise The path before you lies Every time I look inside I see out Not a lot of lines cross when you don't doubt All the perfect things Waiting to come out Every time I look inside I see every side of me Rides with grace Every side of me Rides with grace Take yourself out of the bag You put yourself in Learn every single lesson Kiss the ground The sound resides there Kiss the ground My sound resides there Planting the seeds Like they were my needs Let the members know I need space to grow I am like the light I am water... If the path lies You change it If the truth lies You name it If your heart tries You take it If your hand flies You tame it If your god lies Rename it If you think wise You'll claim it Take yourself out of the bag You put yourself in Learn every single lesson
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Climbing 04:27
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climbing to the top of mountains reaching for the sky it disappears watch my hands lose their grip (what's my life it's losing meaning) I wish I could climb to the top with you I'd pick you up and cradle the fall I wish I had the hand to heal you only my hand is so small struggle for the point of gravity search for that slice of light your breath beats through me I keep struggling breath beats through you keep struggling breath beats keep struggling breath beats things just got rolling here you started dying it might be heaven there what if they're lying if I could climb to the top with you if I had the strength to heal you (If I) she needs with anger heart and cancer breast a lap to rest she needs a lap to rest
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Push The System 03:58
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Guy on the subway Shakes the silence into sound And the music I have found Changes subway halls to song Lift up my heavy heart that wonders Lift up my heavy heart that wanders Strumming chords On circular commuting "gotta be a star" Yep gotta be a star But so far it's so far underground Push the system out of me Shake the system out of me Those guys in those bars are still jerks Still looking at her skirt Instead of looking at her worth It's a shame time's So easy to waste Look a little closer I'll give you a taste Of open honest loving Easier than living In the maze that pain Mapped out for you It's about space It's about time It's about giving him a quarter Then her a dime Just cuz I was born Into this system Doesn't mean I live it Just cuz I was born here Doesn't mean I am it Where they draw all their lines Don't take it as the limit America is spoiled Clean it up or swim in it It's all the timing Reality is blinding I can't even face the place They try to buy me Women are a window See beyond reflection Listen to the asking Ask for better listening Push the system out of me Shake the system out of me Still looking for my mother Calling on my sister Rode all the way uptown Just because I missed her All my parents taught me Now I see it's not me But looking at my history Is the only way to find me I'm sick of race Determining our wage America I feel Your capitalistic cage Keep the people down Fill their heads with fear Keep the people down Infest their heads with fear Then offer them a crutch And charge them way too much Push the system out of me Shake the system out of me
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Black Eyed Girl 01:57
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Where are you going, black-eyed girl? Can you explain this tangled world? I thought that freedom was a key But here you know nothing's free At night i dream of being young Why didn't childhood keep me long Why am i fighting for my voice When i could sing way back then Where are you going, black-eyed girl? Where are you going, black-eyed girl? Where are you going, black-eyed girl? Is hatred winning? She thinks i'm f*cked up cuz i think I can do good things and still see The vicious cycle dissolving me And hatred continuing Well you can't keep a good woman down La-da-di-da-di-da-de-do We gotta know who's keeping us down Before we can rise, we can rise Where are you going, black-eyed girl? Where are you going, black-eyed girl? Where are you going, black-eyed girl? Is hatred winning? The way i see the enemy is not my sexuality Stop pointing your fat finger at me Cuz i will not be shut up, no i will not be shut up No i will not be shut up
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When I See You 02:17
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When I see you It feels like I am home again When I see you It feels like I am whole again
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I Lie Still 02:01
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Father wants me Father needs me Father on top of me Father loves me I lie still I lie still don't tell my mother I lie still don't tell my sister I am secrecy Father indecency I am secrecy Father indecency I lie still I lie still don't tell my mother I lie still don't tell my sister I want to know How many women He thinks he owns I want to know Who he lies to more I want to know About the secret stale air Trapped between them I want to know When the strong stuck girl Will be released I want to know When the strong stuck girl Will be released
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Twinkle 03:10
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Twinkle, twinkle, little star How I wonder what you are Up above the world so high Like a diamond in the sky Twinkle, twinkle little star How I wonder what you are
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Heavy In Love 02:18
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the blind space of low clouds the breeze that moves them over my forehead/third eye the moon that hangs half and orange your letter sits by my bed rode all the way tide-twisted from China heavy in love your words spring toward my dreaming dreary brain I suspend your picture hand's length from my heart remind me to recycle change my underwear and take in my bicycle for all of its energies life's lazy in love the in and out is active your letter sticks to never be resurrected my hands are glue the sink is the fun my hands are glue
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Drag King Bar 04:44
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There's a hoedown there There's a hoedown there (Hoe down where?) There's a hoedown, hoedown, hoedown there There's a hoedown there (Hoe down where?) There's a hoedown there There's a hoedown, hoedown, hoedown there Well I was bored with the lesbian scene I told myself I gotta find another thing So I strapped on my boots And I walked down the street And I rolled right in to the local d.k.b (Drag king bar, that is) When I walked in at quarter to eight Well I thought that I might be straight At the drag kind bar last night It's unlike me to look at boys When the girls are packing toys I can dig that scene all right Then across the bar He played the air guitar And mouthed those words real sexy It was then that I surely knew That this one would be a two If I played my cards just right Well I was drunk and I was bored And he was cute so I was lured At the drag king bar last night Where all the boys are really girls And the fags whip out their pearls At the drag king bar last night Then at a quarter to ten He scoped me again And drank his beer so sexy It was then that I surely knew That this one would be a two By the end of the night tonight Well I was drunk and I was bored And he was cute so I was lured At the drag king bar last night Where all the boys are really girls And the fags whip out their pearls At the drag king bar last night Then he used the line that works everytime; He said "Hey, is this seat taken?" I said "No" he said "Let's go" I said "Where?" I don't care" "I'm a Scorpio" "Take me home right now" Well I was drunk and I was bored And he was cute so I was lured At the drag king bar last night Where all the boys are really girls And the fags whip out their pearls At the drag king bar last night
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Stretch 02:32
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I am on the road to somewhere out there I don't even know what number to call We could meet tomorrow and count the time flies Stretch our conversation around our minds Put me in your calendar give me a number Magnify me let me have one day of your week Don't tie me to the time that I couldn't love you Cuz time came like water and swallowed me whole Every web I'm weaving will catch me someday Every place I'm leaving will follow me Don't stick me in your diary and close the cover Don't tangle me up inside your memory Count on me for something You can count the miles I drove to find the stranger I remember so well He looks like you she thinks like you I am the lover Of break ups and left offs And finding my way home I made you my priority Made me the fool I think too much I miss you most before I sleep The days stretch out Like empty highways Begging me to come feel your body Give me gravity Come feel my body Give me gravity
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Climbing Reprise 08:51
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Bitch and Animal's debut release "What's That Smell?"

Featuring an ode to the female nipple, an anthem for the Drag Kings of the NYC downtown scene, and a not-so-secret secret bonus track of the Pussy Manifesto. Political, Performative and oh-so-Pussy.

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released April 13, 1999

Produced by Bitch and Animal and Kate Wolf

Engineered and Mixed by Jay Pinto

Recorded on Analog at Spectre Studio in Washington in 1999

Mastered by Troy Glessner

Cover drawing by Bitch

Bitch plays: Bass, Vox, electric and acoustic Violins

Animal plays: Djembe, Ashiko, Vox, Ukulele, Tongue Drum, Sticks

All songs copyright 1999 bitch and animal (BMI)

All songs written by Bitch and Animal except "Twinkle" which is written by some chick named Public Domain

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The longstanding queer music icon Bitch makes witchy poet pop. She does it with violins and synthesizers, and the songs she writes are spectral, heartbreaking, political, and beautiful. "Bitchcraft" is like Joni Mitchell set to a click track, it’s queer Cyndi Lauper. It’s neon pink, in your face, ready to hex you with its brilliance. ... more

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