Heartlines, by Porch Cat

Heartlines

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empty disco I like the way all the songs go with each other. Everything is recorded clean enough to hear the cool tremolos and voice tricks. Favorite track: Coming Out.

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1.	Bitter 02:46	lyrics
I'm a heart shaker I take and quake I'm bitter I'm a headacher I make and I fake I'm bitter oh love never did me no good Not like the way loneliness could Well my head is a bundle Yes I'm on the run I'm bitter I'm a heart shaker I take and quake I'm bitter I'm bitter I'm bitter
2.	Jacky Bones 03:50	lyrics
Em Jacky Bones you walked in the saloon B7 Ready to howl at the moon Em You’re afraid you can’t handle change B7 I’m not like you so I must be insane C G Am Oh, don’t you close your eyes Em B7 Jacky Bones, don’t close your eyes Em Don’t close your eyes Jacky Bones, you’re looking at your cards But that hand won’t get you very far You’re alright with black white and red But other colors go over your head Oh, don’t you close your eyes Jacky Bones, don’t close your eyes Don’t close your eyes Instrumental C G B7 Em While you’re howling at the moon C G B7 We might come storming in to steal your silver spoon C G B7 Em We don’t mean you no pain  C G B7 But we won’t let you take our souls away C G Am Em B7 Jacky Bones, don’t close your eyes Em Don’t close your eyes Jacky Bones, you’re threatened to the core On our words you’re waging war You’re shaking in your boots, you’re confused By the way we voice our strange views Oh, don’t you close your eyes Jacky Bones, don’t close your eyes Don’t close your eyes Jacky Bones, don’t close your eyes Don’t close your eyes
3.	Magic 03:03	lyrics
G Em D We took our fears from their boxes Planted them a grave I howled all night with the foxes In those moments I was saved I don’t know where the friends have gone And I’m not sure how I’m feeling And the moon is shining like the sun And my face is too revealing Em D G I wish there was magic in the way I move from town to town Em D G C I’d cast a spell on your broken heart Em D G But I’m better left unfound I’m better left unfound The planets have aligned here In the palms of my hands And my eyesight is a bit unclear I see it all in strands I’m too lonely for a sacrifice I heard my body say When the ocean all turns to ice Maybe then I’ll stay And I wish there was magic in the way I move from town to town I’d cast a spell on your broken heart But I’m better left unfound I’m better left unfound And I wish there was magic in the way I move from town to town I’d cast a spell on your broken heart But I’m better left unfound I’m better left unfound I’m better left unfound
4.	Coming Out 04:04	lyrics
A E It was a secret to be hidden from my mother And my father told me not close any doors So I didn’t say a word and I left the doors wide open Well your baby has been torn I kissed her in secret by my house Scared someone might see But I realized that moment she was better than a secret And she was better than I could ever be F#m A E Coming out was never coming home Running away from the things I had known We didn’t know that our backpacks were filled with the bullshit F#m E A Until we tried to fix it We broke up in February, the boy in college He touched me by I never touched him I wondered if that’s how it’d be Saying I love you when I still couldn’t fucking breath I called you many years later saying her name And you told me you didn’t understand, it was a phase Oh, I wish I had been braver when she held my hand If love is a phase then a phase is what I am F#m A E Coming out was never coming home Running away from the things I had known We didn’t know that our backpacks were filled with the bullshit F#m E A We didn’t know until we tried to fix it Coming out was never coming home Running away from the things I had known They say it gets better it gets better it gets better But rain always keeps getting wetter Coming out was never coming home Running away from the things I had known We didn’t know that our backpacks were filled with the bullshit We didn’t know until we tried to fix it
5.	Heartlines 03:48	lyrics
B E The measurements that make me up Don’t fit inside a measuring cup When everyone is questioning I always end up wondering Cause nothing that I am is right So I guess this is what they call a fight I’ve spent so much time trying to figure out my bloodlines And how to love and how to be alive I wrote a letter to myself Burn the books that line the shelf Cause hating all the things I am Could never make me a better man than him Cut my hair and not my arms Don’t forget to look at the stars There’s so much that I should have said While I was laying, bleeding in that bed I’ve spent so much time trying to figure out my bloodlines And how to love and how to be alive Take all the time trying to figure out your heartlines And how to love and how to be alive Take all the time trying to figure out your heartlines And how to love and how to be alive Take all the time trying to figure out your heartlines

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released September 20, 2014

Mastered by Emily Ayden

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Porch Cat is a DIY, queer, folk punk band from Washington, fronted by Chan B and accompanied by Emily Ayden. Porch Cat is a project that strives to connect with and empower marginalized people through music.

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