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Second Hand Cigarette

from Stylin' by J / Q

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This is the digital b-side of the "Stylin' Cassingle". Note: Nothing was aligned to a grid. No auto-tune was used. This recorded grew from analog seed on a Tascam 414 4-track and mutated as it absorbed hi-fi and even mid-fi elements to become the tentacled, elegant sonic monster poised to crawl into your earholes...

lyrics

Second Hand Cigarette

I smoked a second hand cigarette.
I found it on the ground and the filter was still wet.
I know what you must think
but baby I don't really care.
I'd recognize the stain of your lipstick anywhere.
I smoked a second hand cigarette
I found outside your house after you went in
and you didn't really see me
cuz I'm not that hard to miss
as I shivered in the shadow with your nicotine-y kiss.

This is something for the creepy people.
This is something for all you real live ghosts.
This is something for all those secrets that we keep so deep down.
This is something we can call our own.

My love for you is so complex.
I see you everyday but you don't know it yet.
I'm not out to be your lover;
I'm not out for t & a.
I save your cigarettes just to collect your DNA.

This is something for the creepy people.
This is something for all you real live ghosts.
This is something for all you sexual pioneers...

credits

from Stylin', released August 24, 2010
John Parker Northrup: vocals, bass, roland r-5 drum machine, casio sk-1, piano, mellotron, marimba, electric & acoustic guitar, korg A-770 synthesizer
Q: hi-fi drums, percussion
Stephen Brodsky: lo-fi drums, 4-tracking

Recorded by John Parker Northrup at Club Awesome, Allston MA 02134 as well as the
Camp Street basement "b-room" (R.I.P) and also by Alex Hartman at Camp Street Studios
Cambridge, MA 02140. Mixed by Alex Hartman at Camp Street Studios

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Johnny Northrup : Lead Bass, Lead Vocals

Q : Lead Drums

Alex Hartman : Lead Synths

Brian Kubota: Lead Synths

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