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Making Matters Worse

by Le Trouble

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1.
Baby We did it our way Do it our way We chased it We did it our way Do it our way And even if you don’t remember Fingers will recall it better Wearing a thin layer of nothing I don’t need to look to see the truth I’d have bet I honestly believed We’d make it Oh yeah we’d make it Let me bury you in my bones Send it out to sea But how was I to know That love would take its toll You’re sharpening my blood What could I have asked you That maybe you would answer And even if you don’t remember There’s ripples in the water now Show me a thin layer of nothing I don’t need to know to see the truth I’d have bet I honestly believed We’d make it We never made it Let me bury you in my bones Send it out to sea But how was I to know
2.
Panic! Panic at the pivotal moment Set my pulse to the heart of the setting sun Mania! Man I’m getting hot for comfort And I don’t find no shelter here Monday you say you’re a towering inferno of genius Wednesday I see you’re nothing but a hot mess So what did I miss? Why are we wasting our short lives? Brother can you tell me if the cigarette I smoke Is real or something management painted on the wall? Sister can you tell me is the perfume that you choose A window into tenderness And how far does it go? Will I ever get that close? I am not alright I am not alright here I have seen enough So when will I see it again? I am not alright I am not alright here I could keep it together if I just keep moving along Or settle down Smiling Say it with a smile why don’t ya? When you die you’ll get to dirty heaven and you’ll finally be free But not me I ain’t thinking about no halo future I don’t think I’d like it anyway It ain’t no complete loss but it’s far short of the miracle I am not alright I am not alright here I have seen enough So when will I see it again? I am not alright I am not alright here I could keep it together if I never slow down
3.
Vampires 03:05
There’s nothing left to eat in this house Gotta go out and catch a mouse There’s nothing left alive in the high rise Stay in the motel of my arms if you like What you say and what you dont You know you have to swallow both We’re ordering Ordering takeaway If I said important things I sent them onto stupid flings We’re ordering in Ordering takeaway A favour Do yourself a solid son You can lay low here as long as you like I love your eyes on these idiot nights You can hide out here as long as you have need I love your eyes on these idiot nights What’s it like to know how to dress A vision of what the kids call success What’s it like to be tired of sex? Making the motel bed for whoever’s next What you say and what you dont You know you have to swallow both We’re ordering Ordering takeaway If I said important things I sent them onto stupid flings We’re ordering in Ordering takeaway you can lay low here as long as you like I love your eyes on these idiot nights you can hide out here as long as you have need I love your eyes on these idiot nights
4.
Fatal Flaw 03:05
Wake me up Terrors in my sleep While I vandalise myself I need it now Relief from psychotic speak I pay your rent on my credit cards Cold, hard Baby you’re a bastard when I see you cry It’s the image that eats me alive When you disappear a year Saying you forgot why you here I have had about enough Why you asking me for my help, I can barely take care myself I know why I fell for your fatal flaw Where the love is big and the dose is so small Oh baby I feel so down when you come around I fell for your fatal flaw Where the pain is big and the pills are so small We lost it to the conquest of the useless Cold, hard Baby you’re a bastard when I see you cry Its the image that eats me alive When you disappear a year Saying you forgot why you’re here I have had about enough Why you asking me for my help? I can barely take care myself I have had about enough You’re shaking like a spider on crack I see it written on the map of your back I could not not claim you I fell for your fatal flaw Where the love is big and the dose is so small Oh baby I feel so down when you come around I fell for your fatal flaw Where the pain is big and the pills are so small We lost to the conquest of the useless
5.
Call You Out 02:26
Wanna keep my head down But they’re shooting low Like one thing leading to another to another I was gonna man the corner Now I’m in 3 deep If it’s not one thing it’s another it’s another man You don’t even know what hit ya Ah the kiss of death You shut it You shut You shut your mouth You’re my half bled brother You know we won’t survive I been hearing all about it All about it oh well Most nights it waits Sleepin’ in a basement trying to stay awake Two drunk treacherous eyes Damn it I told ya Give it up till finally you get what you want I don’t wanna die with a hard on? Another thing left undone I’m calling I’ll call I’m calling you out All the fuckers keep their heads down Oh but I’m aiming low It’s just one thing after another after another after another Most nights you curse Losing the illusion of modern love Most nights you wake Walking in reverse your gonna get lost Looking back At something you had Find peace of mind? Nice try Do you wanna die with a hard on? Another thing left undone You shut it You shut You shut your mouth All the fuckers keep their heads down But i’m aiming low I’m calling I call I’m calling you out Do you wanna die with a hard on? Another thing left undone You shut it You shut You shut your mouth All the fuckers keep their heads down But I’m aiming low I’m calling I call I’m calling you out
6.
Easy Enough 03:19
I was dreaming of pale girls Saw it as a kinda sign Maybe I should get some sun Now that winter has gone Poor child, guess it must be time You found a way to suck me in From the open heart there’s no escape And you found a way to bury me here At my own funeral I came awake Poor child, guess it must be time Cause it’s easy enough Being launched to space The challenge is always to come back safe I’m so sorry My mind how it left my body Maybe tonight we’ll get it right In the dream of the pale girls The colour of fruit was in their cheeks I don’t know what it meant for mine As you wonder in Poor child, guess it must be time Cause it’s easy enough Being launched to space The challenge is always to come back safe I’m so sorry My mind how it left my body Maybe tonight we’ll get it right
7.
Sad Blondes 02:55
All the sad blondes They want you to die in their arms All the sad blondes They lip sync to Beyonce She said Get your little white ass in my bed Get your little white ass over here If she’s a nightmare Im happy to go there You’ve got so much going on Don’t change a thing Leave the makeup on You’ve got so much going on You don’t have to call We don’t have to talk I thought I held your hand But I only held a glove Yeah it felt like love All the sad blondes Have stripped down to their jewellery They dangle their legs over the edge But they will not take me with them Get your little white ass in my bed Get your little white ass over here If she’s a nightmare Im happy to go there You’ve got so much going on Don’t change a thing Leave the makeup on You’ve got so much going on Why don’t you call We don’t have to talk I thought I held your hand But I only held a glove Yeah it felt like love (repeat)
8.
Siting here at the sad lights hotel Leaning into a memory Trying to think of my first or any other girl There’s no one here who wants nothing but Cheap Happiness I’ll take what I can get Playing dirty in the dark and touching shadows Just to cheat loneliness No fun all by myself Underneath amnesia moon Where I lost her You can see any light from outside But i been stuck in this bar for 100,000 nights Better to see any town from way up on high Where the lights are low that’s where I wanna go I don’t want to get married I’d kinda like to be tied down in Cheap Happiness Or however the neighbours like it Playing dirty in the dark and touching shadows Just to cheat loneliness No fun all by yourself Underneath amnesia moon Where I lost her I’ve kissed loneliness in her skinny dipping best She will not let me in She’ll only lay me out In cheap happiness I know where you’ll find me next Underneath amnesia moon Where I lost her
9.
Let it lie
 Or reach again
 How are things turning out? come on So far so good With your fetish bride You
 Do what comes natural Yours was the very first face that I saw In blush atmosphere
 But you didn’t stay long
 We had it coming to you
 All the trouble that trouble has caused I know when it hurt cause it hurt me too Anywhere but far from here (home) Who are we?
 The young at heart?
 Does that mean death’s in other parts Come on Idle like a drunken passenger You
 Do what comes natural Yours was the very first face that I saw In blush atmosphere
 But you didn’t stay long
 We had it coming to you
 All the trouble that trouble has caused I know when it hurt cause it hurt me too Anywhere but far from here (home)
10.
How will I know if I ever make it? How will I know if it’s right? Running for the bus like I’m a little bitch I'm a man ahead of my time When all’s been said and all’s been done Man all I’m trying to do it get through it There’s no need to open the 100 letters all for the same unpaid bill I’ll cut em a cheque and a fistful of glitter Mixing my business with pleasure When all’s been said and all’s been done Man all I’m trying to do it get through it You can do it with whoever you want to Do what ever you want to whomever Take it to the limit one more time please When all’s been said and all’s been done Man all I’m trying to do it get through it When all the dust has settled down There’s only a few ideas worth dying for I know you meant well
11.
I want to see you once more before you change your address To look in your eyes and feel like a voyeur To me you’ve always been a secret And I guess you mean to keep it I hoped you’d leave And oh how I hoped you to stay I stand to lose not matter which either way I gave you something bright for you to hide behind The ocean at dawn Was I a little too bold? What do you want from me? I walked with you in your darkness What do you want from me? I carried you across your four post bed I don’t know how you spend your time with anybody else. The daredevils all gone broke their necks All the great lovers lying are alone in bed All morning birds, they sing their morning song for you Sound like heaven to me And laughter to you What do you want from me? I walked with you in your darkness What do you want from me? I carried you across your four post bed Did I help or make matter worse I can never tell What do you want from me love? Keep on pushing you’ll only find whatever you’re looking for I go back and forth while you were only passing through

credits

released February 3, 2017

All songs by Le Trouble (Garrett Dougherty, Jesse Gnaedinger, Michael Mooney, Bao-Khanh Nguyen, Maxime Veilleux)

All songs produced by Marcus Paquin at Mixart Studios with Ben Palmai & Francis Bélanger Lacas engineering and much love & additional producing by Peter Van Uytfanck at Apollo Studios, except 4,5,11 produced by Peter Van Uytfanck at Apollo Studios.

The lovely Gabriella Hook adds some vocal glitter to Sad Blondes. Marcus Paquin joined the gang vocals on White Knuckles and Ghost Surfer USA and the angry genius Leon Louder (real name!) came up with a nice weird part for Ghost Surfer USA.

Mastering by Ryan Morey

Album art design by niceandcrisp, photo by Elizabeth Delage & layout by Hugo Morin.

Indica Records/Dock 7 Records

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