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CMAT — Aw, Shoot!
Album: Aw, Shoot!
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Phones and glasses scattered 'round the room
I put my jumper in the freezer, just to find something to do
Tourist knocks on my door by mistake
See I was dying on the seventh, and a friend lives on the eighth

I'm a sad country song of a woman
Should do good for the brand but it doesn't
She saw my flat, I saw the joy drain from her eyes

Aw, shoot! I put my life on pause and I can't find any way out
I'm ruined, and I'm rigged to lose so put your money down
I'll do it again do it again for the good skin on wine
Aw, shoot! I cut my life up and I'm running out of time

I can hear them laughing up the stairs
Excited to see Paris, huh, they wish I wasn't here
Now I am like a fly buzzed in the room
They dance among the paintings, and I drink researching tombs

Now I'm a national cliche of a lady
It should do good to have fun but baby
Having fun's a welcome and I've worn that welcome out

Aw, shoot! I put my life on pause and I can't find any way out
I'm ruined, and I'm made to lose so put your money down
I'll do it again do it again, I can't stop drinking wine
Aw, shoot! I cut my life up and I'm running out of time

Ooh-ohh, ah whuh-ho, sorry ladies, up in the sky!

I'm a sad country song of a woman
It should do good to be smart
Cos if they're the angels I'm here knowing I'm not high

Aw, shoot! I put my life on pause and I can't find any way out
I'm ruined, and I'm made to lose so put your money down
I'll do it again do it again for the angels on high
Aw, shoot! I cut my life up and I'm running out of time

Ooh-ohh, ah whuh-ho, ah whuh-hooo, have a nice holiday!
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 dischuckin wrote:


the wiki continues saying   maybe she is trying to be funny, or purposely using the wrong spelling to generate discussion

... or maybe the 'new wife' is a killer
 Laptopdog wrote:

From her Wiki page: "Her debut studio album, If My Wife New I'd Be Dead, was released in February 2022..." I thought that was probably a typo, but nope, that's the actual name of the album. Unless there's some clever play on words that I'm just not getting, it should be "If My Wife Knew..." 
Does grammar just not matter anymore?!



the wiki continues saying
The Guardian wrote of her music, "Her songs are mournful yet accessible, emotionally literate and cleverly crafted, but, crucially, with a huge sense of humour..."
  maybe she is trying to be funny, or purposely using the wrong spelling to generate discussion
 chyk5 wrote:

This is FANTASTIC!



Agreed! Added it to my Spotify list stat!
From her Wiki page: "Her debut studio album, If My Wife New I'd Be Dead, was released in February 2022..." I thought that was probably a typo, but nope, that's the actual name of the album. Unless there's some clever play on words that I'm just not getting, it should be "If My Wife Knew..." 
Does grammar just not matter anymore?!
This is FANTASTIC!
 MrKite wrote:

From CMAT's newsletter: I wrote this song when I was living in Paris at the beginning of the year. I went, to be honest, slightly mad in my Airbnb flat, because I was trying to write music, and it wasn’t going very well. Truth be told, I was trying too hard! Too funny, too serious, too catchy, too boring- everything felt a bit too *everything*. I couldn’t shake the feeling that I wasn’t *deserving* of a good song, of decent expression, because I was not being a good person. Drinking three bottles of wine a day, spending a month alone by myself in Paris on a whim to -work on music- when I have family and friends to attend to, and generally living my life in a very self-serving way.

Then one day, after about 2 weeks, I got a knock on my door. I hadn’t spoken to anyone in real life the entire time I had been staying there so it really discombobulated me. I answered the door, and it was an American woman. A tourist, a woman around my age. The only thing she said to me was ‘Oh! You’re not my friend!’ before she scurried on upstairs to the next floor. Towards her friend, and away from me- the creature living below them. I spent the next week listening to them laugh, and enjoy tourist splendour, and every so often bumping into them. Every time we passed each other in the stairwell I could feel that on some level, they wished I was not there.

The song came pretty quickly after that, as I realised who it was I represent and write for- The Uncomfortable. I am always feeling uncomfortable, and awkward, and undeserving, and I always feel I am stuck in purgatory yet surrounded by American Angel Tourists. Since I wrote this song, I haven’t been able to stop myself ruminating on this. Like when I was in Nashville, playing a live session, and three entire tables of people walked out because they didn’t like me. Or when I was in a hospital in LA wearing a Cowboy Hat, and feeling the eyes medical staff follow me around in awkward, semi-disgust. Or being in England and forgetting that I cannot use the word ‘Cunt’ as liberally in a sentence as I would like without people getting nervous. All this discomfort- It envelops me, and I have been swept up by the magic of it!


tl;dr...could you summarize, please...¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Liking all the new music, William.
Thanks!
From CMAT's newsletter: I wrote this song when I was living in Paris at the beginning of the year. I went, to be honest, slightly mad in my Airbnb flat, because I was trying to write music, and it wasn’t going very well. Truth be told, I was trying too hard! Too funny, too serious, too catchy, too boring- everything felt a bit too *everything*. I couldn’t shake the feeling that I wasn’t *deserving* of a good song, of decent expression, because I was not being a good person. Drinking three bottles of wine a day, spending a month alone by myself in Paris on a whim to -work on music- when I have family and friends to attend to, and generally living my life in a very self-serving way.

Then one day, after about 2 weeks, I got a knock on my door. I hadn’t spoken to anyone in real life the entire time I had been staying there so it really discombobulated me. I answered the door, and it was an American woman. A tourist, a woman around my age. The only thing she said to me was ‘Oh! You’re not my friend!’ before she scurried on upstairs to the next floor. Towards her friend, and away from me- the creature living below them. I spent the next week listening to them laugh, and enjoy tourist splendour, and every so often bumping into them. Every time we passed each other in the stairwell I could feel that on some level, they wished I was not there.

The song came pretty quickly after that, as I realised who it was I represent and write for- The Uncomfortable. I am always feeling uncomfortable, and awkward, and undeserving, and I always feel I am stuck in purgatory yet surrounded by American Angel Tourists. Since I wrote this song, I haven’t been able to stop myself ruminating on this. Like when I was in Nashville, playing a live session, and three entire tables of people walked out because they didn’t like me. Or when I was in a hospital in LA wearing a Cowboy Hat, and feeling the eyes medical staff follow me around in awkward, semi-disgust. Or being in England and forgetting that I cannot use the word ‘Cunt’ as liberally in a sentence as I would like without people getting nervous. All this discomfort- It envelops me, and I have been swept up by the magic of it!
Sounds like an exam. "Have you passed your CMAT yet?"
More Irish, more better!
Thank you RP. 
Nashville via Dublin. Open with a 6 to give some room on the upside.