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Wild West Combat

by Starfruit

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1.
Still a Baby 02:19
No baby is a boy and no animal can look at itself and know what it’s looking at No baby is a boy and I’m still a baby I have and I want a phallus pointing out and into every corner of my palace and a chest to lay my head on I need someone to hold me and touch me inside and out Love me inside and out Help me turn inside out Your baby ain’t a boy Your baby likes their ---- and others too. What say you? Do I make you wanna cry? No baby is a boy and I’m still a baby In my night dreams I’m Stroking the face of Zac Pennington In my day dreams I’m Wrapped up in arms and legs of lovers I get up to get some orange juice and I’m – I’m tripping over bald thighs I’m wrapped up in exile I need just one to focus on me I need someone to hold me and touch me inside and out Love me inside and out Help me turn inside out No baby is a boy and no animal can look at itself and know what it’s looking at No baby is a boy and I’m still a baby No baby is a boy (Still a baby)
2.
Knife Life 02:47
He’s got pink wings he can grant wishes Wishes thrown between panes (through a) of a window Lie in bed and hear all about it He’s got white eyes and wand to swat He prophesized I’ve seen all of the red cars Swerving on the swerving on the street (in front of my house) I’ve seen a stranger (seen a stranger seen a stranger) poke their head out of my shower and say Behave yourself or you’ll be ate up Never going to doubt my luck And I’ll buy me a knife and I’ll stick it right in your life Start a Knife Life Start a Knife Life Oh Yeah I dream I have a fairy godmother With violet wings cradle and shudder (cradle and shutter cradle and shutter) With bosom to rival the Cerrado She’s got white eyes And wand to swat Just because I dream of you doesn’t mean you’re not real Hovering above me on all fours you warn me so Behave yourself or you’ll be ate up Never going to doubt my luck And I’ll buy me a knife and I’ll stick it right in your life Start a Knife Life Start a Knife Life Oh Yeah Our hearts ring out for me and you in pools of blood I slip and crack my head and laugh Look at what’s done
3.
Treat this day A treat today Be in my hair Air with sky in eyes Tall, even taller than This day is tall Taller than words we’ve spoken Taller than hearts broken Than knees fatigued You don’t have to walk You don’t have to talk You don’t have to You don’t have to Don’t change your name If you don’t want to Don’t bathe in shame You don’t have a birth card on your face Hard work, it’s hard work Hard work, it’s hard work All your limbs are tired You don’t have to walk You don’t have to talk You don’t have to You don’t have to You don’t have to walk You don’t have to talk You don’t have to You don’t have to
4.
Calling up today to speak With evangelists on TV Envelopes flooding the streets From demi-people just like me Are we confused or just weak? Does your god have room for just three? Father son and Spirit and me Your holy book excludes me I cheated I Don’t have a name My Christian name No Christian name I am just floored by a grin Program to welcome me in No penetration’s like this Flesh Punctured by Church’s Fist Strawberries and wine Are yours and mine No matter what crimes you place on me Pews to offer forgiveness For my wayward sexual trespass Drink a load of purple blood To signify your empathy Are we confused or just weak? Does your god have room for just three? Man and son and Spirit and me Your holy book excludes me Long before you God was like me God would like me God is like me Strawberries and wine Are yours and mine No matter what crimes you place on me Look at them go Asleep while they write I won’t obey the laws, I won’t abide When I can’t even go out walking I can barely see the sky past the cross
5.
I wonder what you think about In church when your mouth says prayers Your mouth says prayers and you join hands with a man I wonder what you think about In bed when your wife lies bare beside you and there is god inside you A father with a father With God Inside You
6.
Paralyzed in the freezing rain I kiss his heart In terror, you zip a disguise Far above your angel hair does it stretch It must be dark in there I see the grey The grey Now in the house made of skin You stretch it Out in front of you Willy Boy tell me you’re here Saddle up and tell me it’s you on that horse and not a white man you portray, just until the movie is finished When you leave the screen, is it murder? Is it up for the audience to decide – “Do those stirrups stay on all the time?” “Did you pick out that ensemble yourself?” Cowboy tell me it’s you! Tell me what the wild west is like Hand on gun all the time Is your cowboy hat Just a shield Just a shield for your mind? Anti-me and Anti-you Drink to the rock inside of your shoe Inside your guts is a dark primal fashion It’s good for you You’re half a man and half something else A woman and a beast, a man and a A man and a startling secret It’s all you, girl It must be dark in there I see the grey The grey Now in the house made of skin You stretch it Out in front of you
7.
The lowest floor Boundaries come down like sharks When your head droops in sleepy ache May you be wrapped in linens warm On down the ride Passed between loving hands Mothers sigh to give you up Floral sheets hug your sides Arms pass down the child fine Arms are sides of fortress divine Arms stretching long To wrap you up Exquisite care should be the law Noel, must you wait for your cake? Noel Wish a mother for you A litter full of giggling tikes A dream of night lights Arms pass down the child fine Arms are sides of fortress divine Passed between loving hands Mothers sigh to give you up Floral sheets hug your sides Arms pass down the child fine Arms are sides of fortress divine
8.
Somewhere between my back and front AVA, are you in there? Am I in this room? Is there / am I something creeping up to the window behind me? Blinds behind/between my eyes I can’t see you/her with my own eyes My own girl unknown to me Dear your face is blurry Am I a soldier on a front? AVA, are you out there? Among persons, you’re one too Have I become/inversed a person (of) who I’ve fantasized? Naval collapsing through pelvis Myself/organs in darkness Pushing my body to the ground I birth myself / the Earth turns around Sisterhood to thee, it’s me I love you / I love you / I love you / I love you I have become you A/no fantasy, it’s me I love you I love you
9.
This guy says that her body is the Best equipped to have the most fun I’ll stick a steak in between my legs and Go into town wearing a party dress I’m gawking big while she’s walking real big I’m stalking the park to catch a meal in She’ll stick a steak in between her legs and Go into town wearing a party dress Fabrics blouses, I’m certain I am Best equipped to have all of them on I’ll stick my chest in to a tight vest and Go into town as certainly best dressed Divine Is Mine
10.
I see buildings standing tall I see busses stretching long One day our bus hit a man The rest of our day went as planned Ain’t it everything you need from me? You know more the more brains you eat You’re a giant spitting fire You’re veins are telephone wires You’re a moloch spilling out I can barely get around Get a load of this Make it blow out your eyes Detonate with fists For my hands, you will cry and someone Someone will take me away from you Uh-Huh Uh-Huh Uh-Huh Police cars are looking meaner City trees are looking thinner Bulldozers parked all around There’s no place without a sound Ain’t there such a thing as an opening? Water towers above us all Billboard faces make me small Pressed together more than not Hit the sentinel with all you’ve got Get a load of this Make it blow out your eyes Detonate with fists For my hands, you will cry and someone Someone will take me away from you Uh-Huh Uh-Huh Uh-Huh
11.
I Can See In 01:02
The gap is disappearing Your big toe taps my chest Warmth throughout your body all day A giant green room with windows I Can See In I Can See In I Can See Into You Sinking into a warm bath With flower shells and scrunchy towels That was the best I’d had in ages I’m looking at an age courageous Kisses sweet Kisses funny Kisses sad Kisses Kisses Kisses I Can See In I Can See Into You
12.
This place in the game is a full-time job I will take all the time I need To be full of nutrition in a state full of rough men I’m a Texan too and I’ll shine in the face of a big armed pig man I can be tough like a big armed truck driver I’ve seen more than a big armed truck driver Stand in green The land is open to you and me Out in the country You don’t own It just because you can shoot me I will drive through Bardwell and Defend from the jackals who’ve never seen a gem like me Who may squirm and wince at the sight of me A chest with out hair, little breast for you to snare Does it make you scared that I’m not like you or your wife? Well thank goodness I may not have plastic balls on my truck Or know how to hunt down my meat Or flex while I fuck but I can be tough like a big armed truck driver I’ve seen more than a big armed truck driver Stand in green The land is open to you and me Out in the country You don’t own It just because you can shoot me I will drive through Bardwell and Defend from the jackals who’ve never seen a gem like me Be my muse man I know that you need me Without us there’s nothing for you to stand on You have nothing Do you miss those slaves in your yard? Or the days when your wife wasn’t hard? Do you fight back tears for your patriarchy?
13.
The girth of the Earth surely has enough tender faces To conquer one wrinkled man Gather enough burdened friends around me To shield me from the encroaching phantom shards Let a burdened idol stand for me Against the rotted gourd man I see his face in mine I apologize for myself Let’s surround Let’s surround our bodies with air Meet me in a room full of air A room with curtains and chairs Just us with our pure of hearts Get pebbles of colors around me Lay back in lighted bubble foam Beat a bunch of bland stale afternoons Your chest may feel rotten again and again But it heals and renews It heals and renews and engorges with air Meet me in a room full of air A room with curtains and chairs Just us with our pure of hearts Meet me in a room full of air A room with curtains and chairs Meet me in a room full of air A room with curtains and chairs Just us with chests full of air GOD BLESS US WE BLESS GOD BAD BE GONE WE ARE STARS
14.
I didn’t mean at all to tell a lie if I didn’t know Nor to tease anyone Ice in tea with Ana Talulah I didn’t know that she was anyone Ana didn’t lie when too many thieves draped long over her door Until dark, until she locked in Her teeth were knocked with fervor in I didn’t know, I didn’t know Devil he’s turning fast into hearts with the heat Party lights starting to advise two eyes to mine I didn’t know with magic, I didn’t need to Want you to do what you want to do now Bubbling and setting too fast to know What’s me or what’s eating me This dinner would be a lot returned To the dead dick of a father I slid into the empty bag I was so alive I didn’t need to learn
15.

about

Starfruit’s ambitious debut album harnesses elaborate arrangements with moments of frenzied improvisation contained within elegantly organized orchestrations, with nearly half of the songs accompanied by jubilant homemade music videos.

“The lyrics of Wild West Combat deal with my experience of transitioning as a nonbinary trans person living in Texas - finding my identity, birthing myself, and navigating a Wild West where emotional and physical safety felt scarce,” explains Starfruit founder/leader Ava W Boehme. To celebrate the album's release, Starfruit coordinated a multisensory performance show at the historic Texas Theater in Dallas, which Central Track called "a surreal, boundary-blurring realm...filling the venue with a joyful noise that's as real as it gets."

watch the 6 music videos for this album here:

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1Pp0yCNgrKUCSUuMI8LkugDcqXvBuFIL

credits

released January 24, 2020

Ava W Boehme - vocals, percussion, electric and acoustic guitar
Michelle Mackey - vocals
Lorelei K - vocals
Poppy Xander - keyboards, vocals
Chris Holmes - drums
Kamaron Black - bass
Patrick Michot - electric guitar
Garrett Wingfield - saxophones

Additional horns on “Still a Baby” by
Jordan Carr - trumpet
Brett Lamel - trombone

All songs composed by Ava W Boehme
except “The Number of The Beast” written by Steve Harris
Horn Arrangements by Garrett Wingfield

Recorded at Civil Audio in Denton, TX by Michael Briggs
Mixed and Mastered by Michael Briggs and Ava W Boehme

Creative Direction by Ava W Boehme
Cover photograph by Clayton Browning
Cover edited by Kaila Parrish and Ava W Boehme
Starfruit logo by Kenny Failes
Ava and Poppy’s dresses by Dillon Camp
Cover Styling by Ava, Lorelei and Poppy

released by Dreamy Life Records

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