Sweet and Vicious

by Allison's Invention

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released 27 October 2011
Instrumental Tracks Produced by Michael Leonhart & Allison Tartalia
Instruments engineered by Michael Leonhart
Vocals produced by Marta Woodhull & Allison Tartalia
Vocals engineered by: Marta Woodhull
Recorded at Candyland Studios, NYC; The Bunker, Brooklyn, NY
and Manhattan Beach, NYC
Vocals recorded at Singing For a Living Studios, North Hollywood, CA
Additional engineering: Aaron Nevezie (Bunker),
Danny Lawrence (Manhattan Beach)
Mixed by Brian Scheuble at Magic Kitchen, Beverly Hills, CA
Mastered by A. T. Michael MacDonald at Algo¬Rhythms, Brooklyn, NY
Allison Tartalia: vocals, piano, wurly, casiotone, pump organ, vibraphone, glockenspiel, additional percussion
Michael Leonhart: trumpet, mellophone, pump organ, percussion
Marc Dalio: drums
Gary Wang: upright bass
Martha Colby: cello
Mike McGinnis: clarinet, bass clarinet
Katie Scheele: oboe, english horn
Amy Kimball: violin and viola
Rachel Golub: violin
Instrumental arrangements by Allison Tartalia and Michael Leonhart
Art Direction: Liza Lee and Allison Tartalia
Graphic Design: Joel Bergman
Album Photography: Andrea Fischman
All songs © Allison Tartalia, Spinning Songs (ASCAP)

Michael Leonhart, Marta Woodhull, Brian Scheuble, Liza lee, TJ Olsen, Jamie Leonhart, Bob Thiele, Phil Shenale, Craig Englander, Amy and Jeremy Klein, Stephanie Klein, Alyson Greenfield, Jeff Gaynor and Michelle Meyer, William Neal, Mary Edwards, Kay Ashley

More Special Thanks:
Joe Upham, Susan Moorhead, Carolann Solebello, Michelle Colletti, Richard Ticho, Alex Steinberg, Mike “Crunchie” Russo,Michael Evans, Sharon Goldman, Meg Braun, Kirsten Williams, Raymond Steiner, Kristen Napiorkowski, Max Pell, Jim Distasio, Brielle Rosa, Kurt Poppenhouse, Ray Bigelow, Haruko Smith, Jon Garfunkel, Erik Gopel, Karen Kleiber, Gary Moon, Brett Oberman, Alex Holz, , Rebekah Gucciardo

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Allison's Invention is a music project by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Allison Tartalia. Tartalia's quirky ... more and eclectic songs, performed on keyboard, ukulele and kalimba, have made her a popular performer at New York venues like Mercury Lounge and Joe's Pub. The Emmy-nominated composer has shared a stage with the likes of Lelia Broussard, Petra Haden, Rachael Sage and Fred Armisen. less

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Track Name: Clean
I am sick of this city
And I am sick of being broke
I don't know what to do with all my rage
Since I've quite systematically poisoning myself with smoke

I could turn it on to you
I could turn it on at random
Let it all out while you watch painfully amused
As I blend in with all the urban crazies screaming in tandem

I, I, I gotta get out
gotta start clean
I, I, I gotta get out
gotta start all over again
gotta wipe this damned slate clean

I am sick of medication
And I am sick of being numb
I don't think I like this sedated, excavated
Shell of a human being that I've become

I could turn it on myself
That's what I've always done before
Wrapped in boxes, years of anger on a shelf
Buckle under the weight threatening to crash right down to the floor

I, I, I gotta get out
gotta start clean
I, I, I gotta get out
gotta start all over again
gotta wipe this damned slate clean
gotta start all over again

I can't hide and hide
Cause where I go is where I'll be
And I can drive and drive and drive
And still be in my head
It's hard to navigate around this rough topography
I strive and strive to find a light instead

I, I, I gotta get out
gotta start clean
I, I, I gotta get out
gotta start all over again
gotta wipe it clean

I, I, I gotta get out
gotta start clean
I, I, I gotta get out
gotta start all over again
gotta wipe this damned slate clean
gotta start all over again
gotta wipe this damned slate clean
Track Name: Sweet and Vicious
how can I resist
something so sweet and vicious
something so dangerously delicious
as you, my sweet and vicious

to capably and tenderly
irrevocably devour me
and i lie nights awake
pining sweetly for your sake
yearning oh so perilously

i've been warned that you're a beast
something about a wolf in fleece
but til i've tasted your poison i shall have no peace, oh my sweet and vicious

well you can run, but you will not hide
and if i left you be
then inevitably, you'll be drawn back inside

how can I resist
something so sweet and vicious
something so dangerously delicious
as you, my sweet and vicious
oh my sweet and vicious
oh my sweet and vicious
Track Name: Ran
Hey little girl
Where do you think you're going?
You've been trying to prove yourself
A long long time

Who are you now
With all those demons lurking?
Getting this far has been a long long climb

She ran to the corner
To prove that she wasn't afraid
She crossed the street without looking
Over the bridge that led to downtown
She took a breath of the city air
And she had herself a look around
And sometimes she started one way
And sometimes she started for another
But the thing she'd never understand
Was why she was always running from mother...

Hey little girl
I know the ghosts that ride you
They're bound to catch you, baby
In the end

In all your dreams
You suddenly grow wings
And at the last moment
You start to ascend

She ran to the corner
To prove that she wasn't afraid
She crossed the street without looking
Over the bridge that led to downtown
She took a breath of the city air
And she had herself a look around
And sometimes she started one way
And sometimes she started for another
But the thing she'd never understand
Was why she was always running from mother...

Questions remain that you will never answer
Untold secrets taken to her grave
Who do you fear most-
Is it her or you?
Twenty years later, you're still trying to be brave...
brave...
brave...
Track Name: Pangaea
You hold it out like a weapon you're not sure you are ready to use
Like a gift you're not sure you are willing to make

After a rapturous struggle we rest
I put my ear to your chest
And I listen for the signal to your next earthquake

Across the increasing distance of our continental drift
Comes the low rumble as your affections shift
Like techtonic plates

And the house I've built on your seismic divide
Shakes and cracks as your halves grind settle and slide

Here it comes, the landslide's crashing
Here it comes with bodies thrashing
Here it comes, the famine and fasting
Here it comes

Here it comes, the seas are turning
Here it comes, the forests are burning
Here you come with all your yearning
Here you come

And the aftershock when the turmoil abates
Is the quick crisp snap of my heart
When it breaks...
Track Name: New Low
I have not told you the truth
I have not done what I’ve said
In 24 hours I’m both
Appalled and amused
That I’ve found time to roll around
In both of your beds
It’s a new low for me
It’s a harsh blow
To my self-righteous sense of honesty

I have not moved on from you
I have not done what I’d vowed
The trust between us
Is so sorely abused
But still, I’m too addicted
To you to be proud
It’s a new low for me
But I believed once
That you were my destiny

And that’s my excuse
For this atypical behavior
That’s my excuse
Now that I’ve fallen out of your favor
And you can’t see a girl
But that you crave her
That’s my excuse

I have not done this before
Playing both ends against the middle
And I can’t believe
I told you that I was your whore
I can’t believe I priced myself at so little
It’s a new low for me
Now I humbly wear
The scarlet badge of my ignominy

How does it feel
To be the one who’s spurned?
You say you’re sorry
But you have not learned
Karma’s a bitch and
Here is what you’ve earned
When I go home with him does your
Stomach, your stomach turn?
Does your rage burn?

And that’s my excuse
For this atypical behavior
That’s my excuse
Now that I’ve fallen out of your favor
And you can’t see a girl but that you
Crave her
No you can’t see a girl but that you
Crave her
And you can’t love a girl but that you
Hate her
That’s my excuse
Track Name: Just A Body
It’s just a body
Just a body
Just a body
It isn’t her
It isn’t her