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ALAS, I'M A LADY

from MOTHER'S HAMMER by ANNABEL LEE

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I wrote this song as a woman in captivity, slowly realizing that fact. It starts out kind of claustrophobic, in the way that the voice wants to be dainty, but suddenly loses control and crescendos at the end of each phrase. It’s the kind of feeling of talking angrily through a smile. The feeling where you are cornered in a position where you must “hold it together” or be “polite”- while you are boiling on the inside because you’re having an epiphany. The song was partly inspired by the forward of Glennon Doyle’s ‘Untamed’, where she describes watching a cheetah who was raised in captivity at a zoo being trained alongside a labrador retriever, to entertain a crowd with a stuffed pink bunny- when in reality the cheetah could potentially maul every person in the audience if it only know its own strength and natural purpose. It’s about craving wildness inside of us all and that the powers that be and conditioning don’t allow us to experience. It’s the passiveness with which those powers are taming us all, in fear that we will all awaken to find our strength and purpose- wouldn’t that be hell for them? It’s about tapping into something less “humane” that we all innately know thrives deep inside of us.

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I wish that I could show you how I’m feeling
Alas alas alas alas alas I’m a lady
I wish that you could see how much I’m bleeding
Alas alas alas alas alas I’m a lady

I think you’ll find
That I’m gentle when you listen and behave
Bare in mind
I can smell your rotten meat around my cage

I wish that you could feel how hard I’m fiending
Alas alas alas alas alas I’m a lady
I wish that I could laugh at you and mean it ha ha ha ha
Alas alas alas alas alas I’m a lady

I think you’ll see
That the delicate is often out of reach
I think you’ll find
That I’ve got something more singular in mind

I wish that I could show you more
I wish that I could fuck you sore
I wish that this was all there is
Just you and me a sloppy kiss
I wish that you’d unlock this door
I wish that I could show you more
I wish that I could show you more
I wish that I could pin you down and roar
Roar roar roar roar
Alas alas alas alas alas I’m a lady

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from MOTHER'S HAMMER, released March 8, 2023

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ANNABEL LEE Los Angeles, California

Annabel Lee is a Los Angeles rock and roll artist known for her unhinged stage persona and “high octane” (Earmilk) vocals. Getting her start performing at hardcore shows around New England, Annabel brings that kind of unbridled energy to her shows, where everyone is on the cusp of losing their shit while also bringing senstitivity and tenderness with her heavy, imagistic lyricism. ... more

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