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Baby Hawk (Part I of III)

by Rademacher

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Exes for eyes and American thighs yes I love you Hot summer nights on rooftops with lights all around The shadow of town coming on down Watch the stars touch the ground Rockets all take to the sky Cathedrals in cities and cellphones have pretty refrains They've all teamed up together to let us know that the times they have changed Ain't nothing the same A new ballgame Time to take a new name and take it for a spin What kind of shape you in? What kind of shape you want to be? I've been having these flying dreams seeing things that you just wouldn't believe. From the bottom of the lake To the top of the water tower All wrapped in Christmas lights And the fog from fog machines Been having these flying dreams Seeing things Maybe that means something is happening, right? thought that I'd lost you, forgot you, maybe something had died but nothing here is dying possibly hiding and just waiting to spring to spread out those wings and set those watches ahead. You thought I was dead. Always makes me laugh. I can feel it all coming back coming back to me. Been having these flying dreams. Seeing things.
2.
Baby Hawk 05:46
Moved in with some friends down in Echo Park South of Sunset near the Burrito King A four track and drumset in the basement So we started a band and we got kind of good And we got kind of big Playing midnight slots in Eastside clubs On weekday nights. Made our first record all by ourselves Made a thousand trips to the Radio Shack Sold copies to family, family and ex-girlfriends And after the shows and Sea to Level Todd, who said he'd sell it in his old store Then KXLU KCRW started playing this song. We were called Babyhawk and this, this was one of our songs. You may not have heard of us. We weren't around for very long.
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all the best songs are love songs don't think that you can argue that no i don't think you can argue that. all the cool kids and the square ones to they're always into that, yes they are always into that. easy come and go that's your story convenient explanations for the way things are. who really cares who really knows whose responsibility was this?
4.
Pessimist 04:36
you've become a pessimist again you've become a part of this whole thing about you about us about them. why bother being right if it don't get your leg up on the competition? sights and sounds can both be blinding but who gets blinded twice? I know I've often been a drag to hang along with but I am serious this time you know you're often on my mind and that is fine with me if its fine with you.
5.
Silverlake 04:22
Swallowed by a wave of Miller Light and Winstons Hanging out in some cave between the 2 and the 5 in Silverlake Staring, just staring through some ceiling Through the ceiling to some sky To some other time Some other place A whole new dimension It's time for strange confessions Friends. Well who needs friends? Tell me who needs friends. Who needs me? Who needs this? Tell me who needs this? Who needs anyone, anyone at all. When you're hanging with some crowd That shouldn't have been hung with Talking really loud When you should of just been quiet 'Cause a liar, knows a liar We all know how to lie.
6.
Made a record and a t-shirt and in a minute I was famous. I was lucky to be who I was when I was me. I was totally free, I was totally rad, and it was not all that bad being in charge. But with profits looming large, I choked. I always knew I'd be the one to choke. One can only hope that when that rope comes swinging down you got your game working on the ground. You flip that switch and you've got phantom power.

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Recorded by Rademacher (twitter.com/whoisrad) at The Cave Studios (twitter.com/cavestudiola) in Los Angeles, CA.

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released July 5, 2011

Produced by Josiah Mazzaschi (twitter.com/Josiahfm), Kim Haden (twitter.com/kim_haden) and Malcolm Sosa (twitter.com/malcolmsosa)

Engineered and mixed by Josiah Mazzaschi

Written and composed by Malcolm Sosa

Published by Rademacher Music (ASCAP)

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At turns wry and censorious, Rademacher uses its rough-hewn indie rock — barbed-wire guitars, funhouse keyboard lines, Mancillas’ shout-sung vocals — to dissect what it’s like to make rough-hewn indie rock.

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