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Baby I'm Against It

by Pennyroyal

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1.
M List 03:48
Hey, where have you been? I spent last night all alone if you want me, call I’ll be waiting by the phone but I don’t know if you’re home I don’t know if you’re home I’ll bend you ‘til we fit you’re such a hypocrite on show your bones and burns and cuts— I’ll just stick to what I know
2.
Crossing bridges you haven’t come to it’s boring without you here here I’m looking myself in the mirror stand in front of me and I’m not quite sure if you see what i see Rolling down that road and I’m not quite sure If I left your door an actor could not have worn that face any longer It’s in your ways it’s in your gaze it’s you, the problem I need Crossing bridges you haven’t come to it’s boring without you here here I’m looking myself in the mirror now I’m looking real hard for me you’re not what I see not what I see in me
3.
Go Quiet 03:43
Go quiet, go slow nobody asks you anymore keep your hat on, close the door nobody asks you anymore I spent so many nights staring at that door, feeling like the floor it took you just one time to break my heart to leave me in the dark you left me in the dark When I see you I’ll see you when I’m gone
4.
I’m sitting here thinking through my dreams as the record machine screams at me These bills are falling from my notebook stand to the floor where I stand and scream I’m happy where I stand but I can’t stand your jealousy I only have what I found for me what I was lucky enough to grab These bills they don’t own me I only need these dreams
5.
Did you really mean it that everything would be just fine did you really mean it that it’d be just fine this time Did you really mean it everything would be just fine that you see stars every time I smile Did you really mean it when you look into your heart My heart is heavy knows what it can carry, but you— I don’t think you mean it this time I’m done with you If you don’t mean it then i don’t mean it
6.
Last I Had 03:00
I just put a thousand miles on your car ‘cause you’re not there screamed your name into the air she don’t mind, she don’t care screamed your name into the air Stopped for gas, I hit the town a tourist in a roughneck bar man, you don’t know where you are I broke my nose, took your car man, you don’t know The last I had of you is gone the last I had of you is gone When I got out west I hit the shore the road trip took two weeks or more she don’t love me like before I landed in an ocean town you weren’t there so I asked around No you don’t love me she don’t love me my heart pumps dust, sinks with the sun the last I had of you is gone I sailed into a savage land of coconuts, exotic fruit people sleep all afternoon I found a girl who looked like you showed her how to play the part I showed her how to break my heart
7.
Dallas 03:07
I was already in Dallas when you called I was already in trouble with that same old story I don’t know anyone like that you gave your word and then you had to crawl back You were not one of us at all you had your nice car and you drove it daily you turned the summer into fall I always thought that you’d be front-page, maybe I met your sister in the spring she has your looks and now she moves the same way we’re all so proud of what you’ve done you cut us loose and told us try to have fun try to have fun
8.
Pennyroyal 02:29
I took out west I, took out less torn and toiled, a pennyroyal I changed my name, I changed my face moved to the outskirts of town had dreams of gold, had a heart of gold had a past of soil, the darkest soil a pennyroyal There was one thing that helped me combat my chagrin a boy who ran when his ship came in now he’s gone, I’ll sing that song I’ll take it with me, to keep me happy I come back Minneapolis-bound I found my only friend in miles I sewed up the holes in my pockets for what it was worth it wasn’t worth all the ruckus Now I got the one thing i need to feel free the one thing i need to feel free humbled like a pennyroyal
9.
Broken Wheel 02:55
You and I have become silent and the wheel of the sun has broken itself upon the dawn Tell them all you were lonely tell them all all you went home tell them all you got married and I was there to wish you on Seven days for your freedom seven days for your health seven days for our baby he's young and cannot feed himself
10.
Remember when there’d only been heroin in the freezer? we weren’t ever hungry then anyway But it was such a large freezer to be holding such small, potent cargo Just like an official statement of no more wine glasses brings But this time the pickings are thin and heroin is the only thing in this city that turned out to be what it said it is
11.
It used to run so easily before I had these two irons on my side the sun it used to open up for me and it comes and it comes and it comes The back doors that you had within your reach are used to keep the wind out you said that I could never get your sympathy and it comes and it comes and it comes
12.
And when I let you down, don’t be sad And when word gets around, don’t be sad When she comes back in May blue and green and gold I’ll see it for myself

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"Few bands survive “second album syndrome” as successfully as Pennyroyal has. Baby I’m Against It is as near a perfect album as we’re going to get this year, folks. The second side may stumble from the smooth pacing of the first, but we admit we can’t find another way to sequence the album’s twelve indispensable tracks. Some songs are rounded out by lyrical repetition.. but maybe brevity is best. Even “Record Machine,” in all its awesomeness, leaves us wanting just a little more. These are all little things, the sort of flaws that make an album its own special world you can get lost in for a half hour. This is undeniably the best new album a band has brought into the shop this year."
- Hymie's Vintage Records, November 2013

Produced and engineered by Ed Ackerson (BNLX, Polara, and more) at the legendary Flowers Studio in Uptown Minneapolis, this is our second full-length album, full of gleaming brand-new songs with a few old gems sprinkled throughout.

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released November 19, 2013

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"..A highly evolved, adaptive beast of music, Pennyroyal puts a glam spin on the rock ‘n’ blues sound other bands are circling in on today.. An almost terrifying genius powering lead singer Angie Oase’s at once ethereal and guttural vocals, leading the charge onto the gates of musical heaven." -LB ... more

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