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Lightning & Regret

by Clementine Was Right

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    A lovely 6x6 booklet housing our favorite nostalgic physical music format (the CD) with lyrics and extra writing from Mike, full color illustrations from Taylor, and cover art by LK James.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Lightning & Regret via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Also includes full PDF of the album booklet with lyrics, illustrations, and a helpful ticker tape guide to regret!
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1.
Jekyll Beach 04:08
In a lightning storm Down on Jeykll Beach Where the night made fog In the driftwood trees Saw you wading in Saw you blending in Like an orphan wave Giving back your skin Never loved you more Knew I lost you then Oh the darkness moves Oh the light it bends And when they find us They'll find the bones And when they break ‘em They'll find the song And when they sing it They'll get it wrong They... Get it wrong In a mobile home Down a burnt up ridge My father dies Into his oxygen He's got his light magnets He's got his switch from god He's got his distances I guess I'll never trust Never learned it right A little cozy love I got these bloody teeth Got this shaking touch And when they find us They'll find the bones And when they break ‘em They'll find the song And when they sing it They'll get it wrong They... Get it wrong
2.
I been with the daughter of a democrat I been with a hippie and an alley cat Broken into swimming pools late at night Made a lot of promises I wouldn’t make twice I been down in kitchens and on attic floors Moaned into being and I been ignored Called a lot of names here on god’s green earth Trust fall forever in this fucked up world But if you are Straight up with me I will be Straight up with you Let’s pretend We know what we need Make believe This feels new And if you go it careful with my heart I will go it careful with your heart If you take it easy on my night I will take it easy on your night No promises or secret codes No promises or secret codes I been asked over over SMS We buy the same hustle time and time again Tricked myself religious down in certain beds Hallelujah in the morning watching you get dressed I been too afraid to move my arm When somebody pretty is sleeping on top I got down to nothing in a lightning storm Chase another wave that I can’t wash off But if you are Straight up with me I will be Straight up with you Let’s pretend We know what we need Make believe This feels new And if you go it careful with my heart I will go it careful with your heart If you take it easy on my night I will take it easy on your night No promises or secret codes No promises or secret codes Promises! Secret codes! Promises! Secret codes! Promises! Secret codes! Promises! Secret codes!
3.
Tacos on the west coast Tacos on the east coast Black belt in the dryer Fish sauce in the fire Too aware of elbows Don’t know where my tongue goes Awkwardly well-meaning Lean if you feel like leaning Chief I think they put the wrong one out Chief they let the wrong one hit the ground Why can’t the mall burn down? Why can’t the mall burn down? Why can’t the mall burn down? Why can’t the mall burn down? Why’s it always gotta be the ones! We! Love! That always have to go and get the most! Fucked! Up! Why can’t the, why can’t the, why can’t the Mall burn down? Floppy disk repairman Obsolete vocation A town you feel like burning You don’t wanna really go burn it Bumper hanging over the levee Kick whatever they let me If the moon gets on my fingers I’ll brag about it later Chief I think they put the wrong one out Chief they let the wrong one hit the ground Why can’t the mall burn down? Why can’t the mall burn down? Why can’t the mall burn down? Why can’t the mall burn down? Why’s it always gotta be the ones! We! Love! That always have to go and get the most! Fucked! Up! Why can’t the, why can’t the, why can’t the Mall burn down? Chief I know you don’t believe in ghosts Chief do I know everyone I’ll know Chief I like the way your face can’t cry Chief I wake up in the ugly night Why can’t the mall burn down? Why can’t the mall burn down? Why can’t the mall burn down? Why can’t the mall burn down? Why’s it always gotta be the ones! We! Love! That always have to go and get the most! Fucked! Up! Why can’t the, why can’t the, why can’t the Mall burn down?
4.
Take me like a sparkler through the woods in the dark Drinking Dr. Pepper and Makers Mark Jump in the ravine in our underwear Break into the mill, show you I ain’t scared Of dying here I know you read Camus back in high school Still get sentimental over waning moons Want you like a furnace wants a perfect brick Sandals on the guardrail in The wind I was born down the street from a long black train Know it’s coming for me, I know it’s coming for me You can bury your clothes, change your name You know it’s coming for you, you know it’s coming For you Face full of charcoal, we all fall down Face full of charcoal we fall Eating all the peaches straight from the tin Throwing your couch off the green bridge Did you hear the one about the P.E. coach? Bones on the levee and the van That they found them in Here’s where your mom fell asleep in the car This right here is your permanent scar Count all the pull-ups I do off this branch You tell me what kind of man I am I was born down the street from a long black train Know it’s coming for me, I know it’s coming for me You can bury your clothes, change your name You know it’s coming for you, you know it’s coming For you Face full of charcoal, we all fall down Face full of charcoal we fall If you lay your hands here The shaking will stop You tell me but I Don’t believe If you lay your hands here The shaking will stop You tell me but I Don’t believe Trust me trust me Baby just trust me Yeah that’s the problem I think Trust me trust me Baby just trust me Yeah that’s the problem I think Trust me trust me Baby just trust me Yeah that’s the problem I think Trust me trust me Baby just trust me Yeah that’s the problem I think Trust me trust me Baby just trust me Yeah that’s the problem I think Trust me trust me Baby just trust me Yeah that’s the problem I think Born down the street from a long black train Know it’s coming for me, I know it’s coming Born down the street from a long black train Know it’s coming for me, I know it’s coming Born down the street from a long black train Know it’s coming for me, I know it’s coming
5.
Always give the cowboy directions You never know when he might help you out He’s kissing his boyfriend’s eyebrows The night it doesn’t hang so much as drown Always bake an extra potato You never know who’s coughing up their lunch When I carried you I wasn’t frightened When I put you down oh god I was Sorry for the ashes in your bathtub Sorry for the sherbet on your shoes Sorry for the spider at your book club Sorry I let go of your belt loops How about the fire of forgiveness How about we try to get too close How about tonight calls up tomorrow And argues that it doesn’t have to know My favorite shade of memory is faded Firefighters practicing on poles My favorite shade of history is fuck it These polar bears that I keep feeding coal Sorry for the words with all their edges Sorry for the tinsel on your floor Sorry for the ice cube in my jacket Sorry I don’t know what love is for How about the fire of forgiveness How about we try to get too close
6.
Your boyfriend was dying right down through his bones I spent the night at your place With tarot and whiskey, called you sugar cookie After the paint stained your face There’s always some dumb fucking thing to be done If you are not sure you’re alive Sprint through the crosswalk with all the wrong lights Whistle with spears in your side Shut up and hold me / shut up and hold me Shut up and hold me / shut up and hold me You drove yourself west to the state where I’m from You swallow the fog when you nap You text me from texas and say you’re well rested Oh yeah you’re not coming back It’s easter, it’s snowing, there’s bats in my house I found them asleep upside down I gave them blankets, and they all said thanks They wept until I locked them out Shut up and hold me / shut up and hold me Shut up and hold me / shut up and hold me (I gave up sugar last summer, so why don’t I get my own name?) Oh yeah, you’re not coming back oh yeah, you’re not coming back Oh yeah, you’re not coming back oh yeah, you’re not coming back Oh yeah, you’re not coming back oh yeah, you’re not coming back Oh yeah, you’re not coming back oh yeah, you’re not coming back
7.
I’m outside of Reno, and I’m headed your way In a bathroom on the Donner Pass A ghost crawled in my face Love don’t know I’m coming Love won’t let me stay I’m outside of Reno, headed back your way Drove your Volvo to the donut store When your jaw was wired shut Didn’t matter where the skin turned red I kept my collar up That cop you kicked right in the balls Chalk it up to ACAB, babe Sold a mint Batman to bail you out You whispered: “Happy birthday!” But you always told me “You know where to find me Just read the back of the snow” You can hang up now Or you can keep laughing Whisper so he don’t know I’m outside of Reno, and I’m headed your way In a bathroom on the Donner Pass A ghost crawled in my face Love don’t know I’m coming Love won’t let me stay I’m outside of Reno, headed back your way Sharee had a barn with a disco ball Or she did—till you came along I had a heart that couldn’t do winter But you always knew the next song And I was this close to telling you something If only I knew what Like your uncle’s knife on bingo night Can’t leave it up to luck But you always told me “You know where to find me Just read the back of the snow” You can hang up now Or you can keep laughing Whisper so he don’t know I’m outside of Reno, and I’m headed your way In a bathroom on the Donner Pass A ghost crawled in my face Love don’t know I’m coming Love won’t let me stay I’m outside of Reno, headed back your way
8.
No, it wasn’t like that with Nazarene Sheen First learned to freebase when she was thirteen Nazarene drives a schoolbus in an old mill town What used to be a new mill town And all of the seventh grade boys Wearing their black lipstick Ollie the sheriff’s pool Tape over the tricks they missed They call out her name Like a long silk sleeve Don’t even know What her name means Nazarene Nazarene! Nazarene Nazarene! Nazarene Nazarene— Nazarene Nazarene is a woman of particular tastes Sharing the end of her drink with the rain She’ll scroll through the photos at 4 AM Touching the hearts underneath her friends And all of the busted jeeps Duct tape their roll bars on Keeping their knuckles shined Losing the mud they cross They call out her name Like a long silk sleeve Don’t even know What her name means Nazarene Nazarene! Nazarene Nazarene! Nazarene Nazarene— Nazarene Nazarene keeps her earrings in a Folgers can Her body has nothing to do with your hands Nazarene’s got a spot on the levee she parks I’ve asked and I’ve asked but I’m still in the dark All of the gunmetal fog Spooling the redwood trees There’s a heat in the human ribs They say tops a billion degrees Nazarene! Nazarene! Nazarene Nazarene! Nazarene Nazarene— Nazarene
9.
Montague shivered in the buzzcut rain Just because he promised doesn’t mean he’ll stay Sheila bites her fist as she unlocks the door You take what you can until you can’t no more We can stay In touch if you Don’t touch me You taste just Like rust and What’s it called? (Grenadine) Wait (No wait no wait no wait) Wait (No wait no wait no wait) Wait (No wait no wait no wait) Way eh-ay, eh-ay-ee-ay-ee-eht Tennessee’s cousin, he just wouldn’t shut up Tennessee kept the blood in a Kool Aid jug To a girl in Holyoke in a brick hotel Tennessee confessed because she listened so well If my body Betrays me Before my humor fails Shove me in The ditch with all The car parts (And quails) Wait (No wait no wait no wait) Wait (No wait no wait no wait) Wait (No wait no wait no wait) Way eh-ay, eh-ay-ee-ay-ee-eht I’m a long way from home Lost my knife Broke my phone All I got left to show Are all the names The names I know If you can hear me (You can see that) I am more (More than smoke) If you can hear me (You can see that) I am more (More than smoke) If you can hear me (You can see that) I am more (More than smoke)

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Our first album, Lightning & Regret, is made of nine songs about loss and tacos on two coasts.

Based on fifteen years of songwriting, the album tells stories about distances you never learn to trust, seventh grade boys wearing their black lipstick, the P.E. coach's bones, your mom falling asleep while she's driving, the mall failing to burn down, the fire of forgiveness, extra potatoes, driving a Volvo to the doughnut store, going it careful with our hearts, the same lightning, a new lightning, the same lightning, a broken river.

For the ideal listening experience, we recommend sitting in your converted tool shed of a bedroom in a town with casinos and meth and garbage bag curtains, singing along to "If you can hear me / you can see that / I am more than smoke" and then writing the song that comes next.

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released January 29, 2020

Lightning & Regret
© 2020 Clementine Was Right | The Blue Turn
All Rights Reserved

All songs written by Clementine Was Right
Lyrics by Mike Young

Lisa Kori | Keys + Vocals
Taylor Penner-Ash | Drums
G. Nicholas Quintero | Bass + Baritone Guitar
Nathan Smerage | Guitar
Mike Young | Guitar + Vocals + Fake castanets + Keys

Recorded in September 2019 by Ben Clary
at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe, NM

Mixed by Ben Clary & Mike Young
Mastered by Will Dyar of Hills Audio
Cover art by LK James
Interior illustrations by Taylor Penner-Ash
Band photo by Gion Davis
Book design & extra lines by Mike Young

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Clementine Was Right Denver, Colorado

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Clementine Was Right is the songwriting project of Denver- based poets Mike Young and Gion Davis.

Chronicling years of uprooting, the music gallops and sways through lyric-driven, hook-smeared bootgaze and western emo, harmonizing and storytelling.

Reach out at: clementinewasright@gmail.com
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