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Wowed Me Out

by Nick Pope

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1.
Turned Ten 05:04
i didn’t read comic books i watched Power Rangers and a neighborhood confronting dangers like rock-men and making friends eyes peeled till the episode ends sucking my thumb cause i could afford it nap inside my dad’s t-shirt while he wore it think i turned ten and my head got sick my head got sick, my head got sick think i turned ten and my head got sick body’s been combatting ever since i’d always wait till my cereal got soggy dishes in the sink getting cloggy red sweatpants-er, kitchen dancer i owe any of my nuance to live James Taylor eggs scrambled, nose runny roll around the ground when my town got sunny front yard, momma calling me honey my sister had a stuffed bunny named bunny and i always thought, the church smelled funny think i turned ten and my head got sick my head got sick, my head got sick think i turned ten and my head got sick body’s been combatting ever since that feeling really wowed me out wowed me out bunk beds, play dates chocolate sauce in vanilla milkshakes swim pond for your birthday 8:15 we were staying up late having a catch, having a talk throwing fits, throwing rocks chicken patties, chicken pox playing outside till there’s snow in my socks and i’d come back in, and my brother’d stay out but my very favorite part about the winter was taking off my gloves and touching my face cause that feeling always wowed me out wowed me out that feeling always wowed me out wowed me out
2.
Tagalong 03:19
when i hear a bark through an open door well i perk my ears and wait for yours still anticipating a scurry or a whine but each time i'm left and when a quarter fell to the floor well i braced myself for something more still anticipating a scurry or a whine but each time i'm left lonely i’m left lonely she reverberates without a sound still occupies this space for now still anticipating a scurry or a whine but each time i'm left oh what a part of this equation and now you're not everything's changing anticipating a scurry or a whine but each time i'm left lonely i’m left lonely
3.
baby come crash it la la la maybe i’m dazed, maybe you too i like it better dazy with you by my side again dazy in the night again lately, we’re sorting out maybe getting by somehow ok I’m all in getting dazy in the night again baby, it’s madness got a whole life, come crash it trashed and about a quarter past it grab a wig and your momma’s fake lashes tell me where the stash is jean jacket and a passport hey if you want it don’t ask for it baby come crash it
4.
Medfield 03:15
overcast Frito-Lay bag and a soda can on her lap, on the cooler just watch and clap overpacked Bubble Gum Bob, bag of soda cans under-practiced stepping patterns in the marching band whistle-stop back in Medfield both my parents taught all we got hug the highway till the legion lot holding hands for my mother’s sake only when the togetherness was too much to take all the people playing parts in the town parade and i see it, in you now you got all the same things that make your body tremble 
and your heart ache
5.
Holyoke 06:01
on the older side of autumn 2012 i took a trip all by myself no fear just fun i’m fit for a challenge let’s see what happens but my faith ran out on a traprock mountain about a thousand feet up with the shadows creeping from another afternoon to another evening oh i know that it won’t mind one handle of the cliffside to break off and bury me alive caught underneath the landslide but if i hold it just right even out my weight this will be my way out fingers freezing body moving slow take a breath before i go bittersweetness stinging the corners of my jaw i remember what i want i savored that chill in case the cold dark air was the last thing that we’d ever share
6.
navigating through the mess right as i can be i guess what’s it worth to you, what’s the use try to keep it tight, and stay loose cmon sugar listen up cmon baby that’s enough cmon sugar listen up cmon baby that’s enough lot of wisdom to consider whole lot of ways to get better just a little, just a lot always evernot cmon sugar listen up cmon baby that’s enough cmon sugar listen up cmon baby that’s enough
7.
Gloom 02:52
coming back to the only ocean where i row open up wide, i’ve got nowhere else to go you could swallow me whole, and ill swirl around your gloom till you spit me out, on your shore a new man
8.
No Yeah 03:03
it’s my night rock and rollin 24 hours till we hit the road 
and you know when it’s late 
i cant say ‘no’ keep it high, keep it low keep it on the floor going animal i don’t wanna go home i don’t wanna go home no no no yeah yeah yeah keep it on the floor like that 24 hours baby no time for a nap and you know when it’s late 
i cant say ‘no’ keep it high, keep it low keep it on the floor going animal i don’t wanna go home i don’t wanna go home no no no yeah yeah yeah keep it on the floor like that 24 hours baby no time for a nap and you know when it’s late 
i cant say ‘no’ keep it high, keep it low keep it on the floor bunch of animals i don’t wanna go home i don’t wanna go home
9.
i know that you’re tough i know that you’re tough i know that you’re tough i know i scrape up your skin from a bank parking lot four in the morning we’re falling apart your head’s boiling over, you’re screaming it off neighbors are scared and they’re calling the cops i know that you’re tough i know you’re raging on like a hurricane but it’s not like a storm when there’s someone to blame it’s not just the drinks or that it’s late and we’re up it’s cause and effect, how the hidden erupt i know throwing punches i know that you’re tough i know neighbors are scared so they’re calling the cops your heads boiling over so you’re screaming it off
10.
At Once 02:00
ok so no more like it was ok no holding out for us ok i feel it all at once at once ok so no more like i knew no holding me like i remember
11.
july leo v-o-l-v-o 240 wagon backwards backseat waving till the strangers gave in 240 backseat haven no, i don’t want to settle down i want to get back in the sound of driving that wagon around in the old roads in our little town

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released January 1, 2020

Nora Murphy - Background Vocals
Kyle Joseph - Mixing
Jon Markson - Mastering

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