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Having pop punk feelings in a country​-​western body

by Two Steps on the Water

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stab_politely so much emotion Favorite track: Thunderstorm for One.
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Eat the Rich 1334 How did I ever pick a favorite track? Each song is so raw, packed with emotion, and yet it draws you in so well. I will be listening to this on repeat for weeks if not months. Favorite track: Nature Doco.
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E O Wong Lyrics like a tortured Gen-Y parody of Robert Foster: the Go-Betweens for the oncoming apocalypse. Yeah, they're as good as the Go-Betweens, but absolutely nothing like them. I wrote this line from May 31st in my book as it satisfied me: "I say that I think we need time apart but I sleep with your jumper beneath my nose. I want to push our bodies through one another. But it's just a feeling. Feelings come and go"
True dat. Favorite track: Thunderstorm for One.
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Jade Whitlock Such a raw, emotional record. I love this band a great deal now after listening to this. Buy all of their music. Favorite track: Nature Doco.
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1.
Crying to myself on the street thunderstorm for one The street is empty but I am full under a setting sun I do not cry because of you but I think you hope I do If only wet mascara smelt like rain on dirt If only I were braver prouder, or immune to hurt Lord let me paint my face and put on my dress and go out dancing I wanna not care that it's not allowed Not allowed Fists might await but I won't care I won't care People might hate me but I won't care I won't care You saw me walking down the street hat and headphones on Singing silently to Big Girls Cry Hips like a pendulum
2.
Like hands around the glass eyes So are these Sundays cloudy A deafening calm A slept on dead arm Little dreams of more true, more rowdy Calling out love from high above A sea seen from mountain tops cloudy and I'm haemorrhaging blood that'll freeze in midair Little dreams of more true, more rowdy Portrait of a cowboy in a sports car A gladiator at home in a sports bar The mask has been shattered The pieces been scattered Glued back together with red bull and jager The truth can't be found in the quiet of the home A quote from a Hemingway lookalike Yelled to his scribe between two racist jibes that fell into the wind from his motorbike I just don't know what to do with me Does high as fuck count as an emotion? Fall asleep punching bills the bongwater spills and I dream of a dip in the ocean Portrait of a cowboy in a sports car A gladiator at home in a sports bar The mask has been shattered The pieces been scattered Glued back together with red bull and jager
3.
Words are just air When has air ever hurt anyone? Right, but aside from tornados Boats sunk by hurricanes at sea What's a gale force wind between you and me?
4.
Nature Doco 04:17
Like a machine gun made of origami being fired in the leaves above you A bird small and chubby is making birthday plans with Sam and Dougy Tried to telepathise my love for you Turns out I was just sat there gawking It's 10am and you've already been awake for five glorious hours A flower cums into the wind and you sneeze and you're warm but your eyes are sour I was hoping that you'd get what I meant by the brightly coloured clothes I was sporting When you're around I try and be like the ground Mosquito flies under a stream of piss like an aeroplane into a waterfall You got so drunk that you puked your guts out like it was nothing at all Tried to telepathise my love for you Turns out I was just sat there gawking Sometimes at night, when I close my eyes I can hear I can hear I can hear David Atten- David Attenborough's soft soft British voice a-talking I love cops I love it when their legs look like the arc de triomphe
5.
Warm with nostalgia at the sight of a number that's a haircut for an era back when I was so young that my parents hadn't been born yet I guess I could've done better but I regret nothing that I've done in my life I guess I could've done better No regrets tattooed on my chest Four digits of death are the calm that we long for the warmth before words that we write all our songs for haven't you heard? In the toilet floats a flower Anything beautiful I now deem a fluke Emotions are kinda like roller coasters You never really know which ones are gonna make you puke (Oh death don't come quickly) OK I could've done better but I regret nothing and I regret it intensely OK I could've done better but I regret nothing and I regret it intensely
6.
31st of May 06:30
Throw your fists into the air It is the 31st of May again I love you so much but I could never be your friend Sarah said that marking this day was us mythologising out loud but I've seen her writing those poems and I've heard her making those sounds I am a tree recently felled and somehow we're still in bed An ebbing plume of factory smoke has taken the place of my head I say I think we need time apart but then I sleep with your jumper to my nose I wanna push our bodies through one another but it's a feeling and feelings come and go ~~~ Throw your fists into the air It is the 31st of May again I love you so much but I could never be your friend If there's darkness before the dawn is there fire before the dark? Have you ever had trouble telling ownership and love apart? An impostor in the movement A house built on sugar slabs It's a certain apprehension that we're getting it wrong, perhaps Throw your fists into the air It is the 31st of May again I love you so much but I could never be your friend

about

HPPFIACWB is a record about a whole bunch of stuff: being trans, and gender in general, and regret, and lovelessness, and nature, and language, and bodily fluids. Feel free to read into it as you will.

More True More Rowdy [Official Video]
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Btjm-YQhY

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released December 31, 2015

June Jones plays guitar and sings on all songs, and plays bass on Thunderstorm for One.

Sienna Thornton plays violin on all songs, and sings on all songs but More True More Rowdy.

Jonathan Nash plays drums on all songs, sings on Thunderstorm for One, Gale Force Wind, and 31st of May, and plays bass on More True More Rowdy and Nature Doco.

darcy t gunk (coral ceto) plays piano accordion and sings on 31st of May

Nick Diprose plays the violin solo on 31st of May

HPPFIACWB was recorded in July of 2015 with Liam Barton at the Bank in Preston, Melbourne. Mixing was undertaken by Liam Barton and Mladen Milinkovic, with Sienna, Jonathan and June in attendance.

HPPFIACWB was mastered by Mikey Young in October of 2015.

Cover photo c/o Paul Daunais (instagram.com/pauldaunais/)

Pictured: Serena Jara (www.serenajara.com)

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Two Steps on the Water was an emotion punk band working on Wurundjeri land (2014 - 2018)

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