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Sarah RabDAU and Self​-​Employed Assassins

by Sarah RabDAU and Self-Employed Assassins

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Carlos Moná This one have a lot of mix feelings; it brings the nostalgia of a pub with wine and cigarettes, the joy of the breeze in a wheat field on summer and the smile of a love memory buried in a distant past.

Sarah has a beautiful voice and in conjunction with the piano and soft percussion, something is sure, it leaves a good taste in the mouth. Favorite track: San Francisco.
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1.
Crushing 03:46
You’re always crushing everyone you love You’re always crushing everyone you love You’ve done it, you’ve won it all Every pretty penny you stole Congratulations on your success I hope all the people that you stepped on Didn’t stain your dress And you did it all on your own You and the army of workers under your control With their help they can have a piece Of the biggest disaster in history You’re always crushing everyone you love You’re always crushing everyone you love They’ll pledge allegiance to your demons That you can’t face alone Lights and cameras, a meal for the mantis A pose for the photo op the proof you cared before you Drop them all You’re always crushing everyone you love You’re always crushing everyone you love
2.
I slept a thousand hours Last night my dreams were photographed Morning sips from heaven’s cup While he’s still in my bed Autumn Spills into my window I think I’ll go back to him Autumn Spills into my window I think I’ll go back to him I will take him in my arms and pass on these well wishes Touch him where the extensions of his body need caressing Autumn Spills into my window I think I’ll go back to him The rest of the day is carried away by the hours I’ll ravish him I will take him in my arms and pass on these well wishes Touch him where the extensions of his body need caressing I will take him in my arms I will take him in my arms
3.
Take your shoes and all your things And don’t come my way again If I see you before the century turns it will be too soon Give me miles to walk and blisters on my feet before our eyes have to meet again Before our eyes have to meet again It’s death before loving you It’s death before loving you Think you can chop my cherry tree and not give me a view Think you can reap from the bounty of my heart, so true I’m not a service you call for I’m the queen of this castle and I’m done with you I’m done with you It’s death before loving you It’s death before loving you My heart’s filled with chocolate so rich I’ll melt for anything You’re a craving I myself can satiate Satiate Satiate Satiate It’s death before loving you It’s death before loving you
4.
Time is running out to take it back And I’m running low If wishes could come true you’d keep me in a glass box to view Never change or grow, saw off my legs to keep me still What you could never tell I don’t do well kept in one place But I’ve got a stone, I’ve got a rock, I’ve got a monument to throw And when I’m out I’ll crawl around, find my legs and sew Teach myself to walk without a cane to hold on Out the door you’ll watch me leave, a monument through your heart ‘But I love you’, you call to me But if you loved me you’d a let me free ‘You don’t love me, just the idea of me Don’t worry darlin’ you’re not losing anything’.
5.
300 million lives past the point of no return It came and went with cum stains left and hardly a lesson learned Hello, this just in… blood in the streets today But turn your lights off and it will go away In the dark and arrogant, I’m a good American You want it faster Something easy It’s what you’re after Here you go Riots and Revolutions a clip of a full song we would sit and listen through if 10 seconds weren’t so long Hello, this just in…ten more died today But turn your lights off and it will go away In the dark and arrogant, I’m a good American You want it faster Something easy It’s what you’re after Here you go Here you go
6.
Weekend 04:29
In the morning our bodies lie further apart than the day before Pretty soon you'll be in Los Angeles and I'll be in New York. A world apart across the dinner table in a silence you can see That you keep swimming for me is devastating So what’s a few thousand kisses when there’s a million misses? It’s always raining on the weekend You pull me closer to you and I can’t breathe The tighter you hold the more you suffocate me You think you’ll get to me this time but I’m dead inside It’s always raining on the weekend It’s always raining on the weekend It’s always raining on It’s always raining on
7.
I’ll see you out in San Francisco I could stand a change It’s been years since last I saw you, but everything’s the same As you know I don’t socialize, it mostly wastes my time Since I’m just silent when I’m talking in my head to you Talking in my head to you Laughing, cursing, and converting the faithful to our side Let’s have a cigarette and toast dawn with a bottle of wine My dear friend I miss you more than I could ever say We don’t speak for months but I’m talking in my head to you Talking in my head to you
8.
Jackie 03:03
Lookin’ for so long he got hunger pains But a good record could keep him full for days Momma wouldn’t pay his rent ‘Til he got his head checked Jackie had his first hit single on the radio Took him 40 years but it still went gold He was coastin’ twenty-five on a coattail ride, but no Jackie didn’t burn out, he burned up his backup band The neighbors’ sons all married well Good jobs, great money living in subdivision hell And all of this he knew All of this he knew All of this he knew but did it anyway Jackie had his first hit single on the radio Took him 40 years but it still went gold He was playin 45’s when Nixon resigned, but no Jackie didn’t burn out, he burned up his backup band Got his BA in business charades and double speak He used to be so happy He traded lives for a suit tied in misery It’s all a lie, he’s past his prime, watch out for Jackie Watch out for Jackie All of this he knew All of this he knew All of this he knew, but did it anyway Go Jackie!
9.
These walls and I, it’s our last time That we’ll hold each other up I’m off to find more ways that I can close myself in Used to be I’d run my hand down These halls and have everything You could hear me sing From the next room your laughter’d ring And we’d fill this place I know each corner and how it was covered From the first year to the eighth What dishes were broken, birthday dinners, Where love was made There was a time when all this was mine And you were still here What plaster, paint, and an arm’s length distance can make disappear Turns out you were light as a feather And I was the weighted one I’d let you go under my prescription Said in a voice riddled with derision And believe it was your choice I know each corner and how it was covered From the first year to the eighth What dishes were broken, birthday dinners, Where love was made. There was a time when all this was mine And you were still here What plaster, paint, and an arm’s length distance can make disappear All our friends know I pushed away Tore it all down in a day What was left were all my clear mistakes And this Pillar of Tears Pillar of Tears
10.
Man Child 05:05
Dad moved to California as another place to hide Left in such a hurry he forgot to erase the websites I never claimed innocence but did not expect to find that 6 certainly does turn into to 9 Hey, there, Suzie Q look at what my daddy can do he'll put your ass up on the screen I was once the center of his world but now every girl is daddy's girl Didn't know whether to laugh or cry heard the whispers from downstairs about his appetite Thought mother's nagging was what drove him over the line Turns out he just likes to look at her from behind Hey, there, Johnny Boy look at all of my daddy's toys do you need some privacy? I was once the center of his world but now every girl is daddy's girl Tell me how to act if I don't come out with it you're nothing but a Man Child for you I won't pretend you're the one who ran and now you can't hide MAN CHILD MAN CHILD
11.
Stop Calling 03:15
8 months to self-destruct What’s another year of this? Conniving in your sickness With a residue of tenderness I can see through the hand that you’ll play Cuz we are one in the same And you’ve got my guilt wrapped around your finger How much is enough Will the deal ever be done Will it ever be done The psychotic voices that keep haunting you Are haunting me too They want me gone just as much as you do I get your best wishes through voodoo dolls And death kisses I know what you want for me And you’ve got my guilt wrapped around your finger How much is enough Will the deal ever be done Will it ever be done STOP CALLING Will it ever be done STOP CALLING Will it ever be done Will it ever be done I’ve got the comfort of nothing holding me tight And I can’t breathe easy with you in sight
12.
If your relatives say anything about my soul Hanging with the devil up on Hades row I’m a gonna pick some poppies and make some belladonna tea I’ll show them the devil in me Then tears will drop like rain as shadows fall But you should’ve loved me I’m the hunter you’re the hunted Kiss me hard and slow While I put some arsenic into your merlot Shouldn’t turn your back on breasts as soft as this Now you’ll never know what you’ll miss Then tears will drop like rain as shadows fall But you should’ve loved me You should’ve loved me You should’ve love me

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"There's not a misstep among these piano-heavy tunes that pack a pretty consistent emotional wallop from beginning ('Crushing') to end ('Self-Employed Assassin'). Among the many, many high points are 'Autumn Spills', the devastating ballad 'Boxing Helena,' 'Riots and Revolutions,' 'San Francisco' and 'Pillar of Tears'. Rabdau and Graber are a pitch-perfect team"-The Daily News

"A piano and drums set-up could easily veer into maudlin, but here, Rabdau and Graber conjure something closer to a lost Lauper song pounded out in a pub." -The Boston Phoenix (featuring the download for 'Jackie')

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released January 20, 2009

Sarah Rabdau-piano, keys, wurlitzer, vocals; Matt Graber- drums; Peter Moore-guitar, bass, keyboards, programming, vocals; wide-range fretless guitar- Scott Dakota; Violin- Meredith Cooper, Andrew Beer; Cello- Valerie Thompson, Fabrizio Marretta; Viola- Andrew Eng; Clarinet- Ken Field; Man Choir- Joel Simches, Ad Frank, Izzy Maxwell, Peter Moore, Will Ragano, Hari Hassin
Produced by Peter Moore and Sarah Rabdau

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