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A Fox Just Be a Fox

by Flossie and the Fox

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Paper Mache 04:23
Since my father's voice Since his strumming fingers My mother's mime class tapes her scherenschnitte scissors Paper Mache, Paper Mache My mom a hero in that day She made puppets for her pay We filled our stomachs in that way In my pale pink dress singing "Apple Red Happiness" never wondering what was next never wondering what was next Since three indian sisters Peter Blaire's long fingers Making my hands dream He taught Piano We bought him groceries I felt he believed in me I felt he believed in me I was just a child, just a 5 yr. old child that's when I decided I wanted to be a songwriter I was just a child, just a 21 yr. old child that's when I decided I wanted to be a music maker Since I first heard hope in the style of illumination still don't know what I found in those Psalms of David "as the deer pants for the water so my soul..." well I don't know what I pant for but I long for it all the more. Second star still in sight I climb back in my window with Peter Pan at my side I realize I am older but this flying won't subside I am only growing bolder and I will always be a child I will always be a child
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Wild Ideas 01:56
Must our bodies be a mere prison to keep our rebel hearts that generate grand ideas? You don't value what you love. armed to the teeth with reasons you believe outweigh your own. Chasing your tail will wear you thin why do your fingers dig in? why not let yourself win once in a while?
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Some people say I move to fast What's the hurry honey? Don't you want it to last? Well, I change my mind like I change hats, and I can't find a lover that can get down with that. Eccentric. Neurotic. Ain't no narcotic that can fix a girl and make her just the way you like. Well, I wouldn't care too much about it since that's what they call a woman who fights. Ooooooooh oooh a woooooooo. oooh a woooh ooooh. There've been times when I felt free not a soul pickin' on me. Her sweet angelic eyes warm, kind inviting thighs... And in those days my bed was full home filled with Rock n' Roll. Makes a poor girl wonder when such great luck might strike again. Ooooooooh oooh a woooooooo. oooh a woooh ooooh. But these days I must confess I'd rather please myself than impress. And when the push would come to shove I'd shove your theories about love Down into a fiery pit where they can warm the hearts of other foolish men. Ooooooooh oooh a woooooooo. oooh a woooh ooooh. Ain't no woman born with the powers to please Only the power to call it just as she sees If you're looking for the woman of your dreams she wanders the streets of your eternal sleep. .........Some people say I move too faaaaast......
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Said I didn't want many hands on me tryin' to turn myself into somebody but I couldn't hide love was on the line i couldn't hide love was on the line Coulda' told you it would work out this way had to give it a shot anyway you're not supposed to run once love has begun you're not supposed to run, but I.....wanna run Never could get my timing right tried my best to put up a fight you can't delay once love is underway you can't delay, but I .....want to anyway Sorta terrified of being loved know somebody loves me know not why I'm loved you don't ask why when love is on the line. you don't ask why.... but I need to know why...... and I would never ask for you to stay I know that you shouldn't anyway no point in beggin' no point in regrettin' sometimes love just don't work out that a way........
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I'll keep on asking why it is the way that it is and you'll keep on telling me this will pass too. this will pass too. I've been clinging to arms that I know will never know how to hold me cause I needed hope more than I desired truth and I clung to lies just to fight off all my blues but I don't want my life to pass me by and I don't want to find out on the day that I die that I'd been living on other men's words what they say, what they said my life was worth People been tellin' me my whole life how the world will never change, but I beg to differ I plan to rearrange the way that we think even if its just about this one thing
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You said you had these dreams about me but darling, you weren't dreaming cause while you were sleeping I placed my heart in your keeping at night we'd go out drinking and you tripped over it and spilled your beer and how i wish Id never taken a sip maybe I wouldn't forget that you're not mine you tell me the same stories every single night as I scratch yours and you scratch mine alcoholic groundhog day. to make your mother proud make your father doubt how little faith he puts in you youre not a fuck up you're brave enough to choose don't let life choose for you whatever hell it sees fit but Nate please don't sing "If Work Permits" I know how a sailor will drink to forget And I bet you don't remember we played this song together. I held the frets you kept the time. I wish I knew then how much I would mind hearing "I Got You Babe" in the morning light. But its time to move along and its time for the end of this song. cause you've made a fool of me and I know now there's nothing more to this mystery than a little bit of beer and whiskey. Love comes fast with whiskey it leaves us just like that in the morning you wonder where your heart is at. Alcoholic Groundhog Day the day I gave my heart away. You just kept hitting repeat and play.
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I can't spend any more time waiting I spent my whole life paying for the things that I believed in these rose colored glasses must come off they have betrayed my heart and I must face the world as it is there is no one to do life for me I must take responsibility for the things that I desire but when will I come to a place where I trust my own opinions and make my own damn decisions There is a story I've been told where trees are chopped down they don't ever make a sound or cry when they hit the ground they give their lives for the glories of man well I won't ever be chopped down I'm learning how to find a place to rest my head rest my heart with limbs stretched out to the sky the birds flocking by will rest in my arms and they will not be harmed oh what is so dangerous about me, independent and free and not in the arms of society?

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released September 9, 2014

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Flossie and the Fox Pensacola, Florida

Flossie and the Fox is the solo project of Rachael Haft, a blues vocalist and picker who belts out angsty bluesy poetry on a Sheraton hollow body and sometimes her father's old Sigma. Driven by compulsively honest lyrics and an emotional yet gritty voice, her songs are about identity. Her debut album, A Fox Just Be a Fox, is a collection of odes to individualism and childhood. ... more

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