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Smile Like You Like It

from The Bitterroot by Everything in Pen

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lyrics

And on the radio we listen to Anita Hill
It’s Washington and it’s ok
To listen while you’re working
This phone never rings
Though I am ripe for answering
The coffee maker’s dripping
Telling me it’s more productive

When I’m opening the mail for you
I will date stamp everything
When I’m typing all your cases for you
I’ll make sure to smile like I like it

Was not so long ago
I was a semiotic scholar
Of Kristeva, Irigiray
Beware of nouns
They’re phallocentric
I’ll trade in all of this
For $7 something, more or less
Somewhere above the minimum
Is my belief I’m independent

You take me out to lunch
And ask if I am learning much
I’ve learned there’s nothing I can wear
That you won’t try to look down
I guess I’m too naïve
I thought men with advanced degrees
Would not resort to tricks like these
Especially when they’re lawyers

When I’m opening the mail for you
I will date stamp everything
When I’m picking up your pencils for you
I’ll make sure to smile like you like it

The testimony’s wrapping up
I sit here reading Atlas Shrugged
You say it’s so refreshing
That you’re willing to improve yourself
I see you’re heading back to school
I hope it isn’t very soon
You won’t have to worry
That’s the perfect place to find a husband

And on the radio we listen to Anita Hill
The bravest woman I won’t know
Giving up her $7.50

credits

from The Bitterroot, released December 11, 2011
Elizabeth: Vocals
Alexi: Electric guitar, synth, bass
Jeremy: Drums

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Combining the pop sensibility of Big Star and narrative observations of Jonathan Richman and Aimee Mann, Everything in Pen’s songs cover many topics---war criminals, sexism, and Dave Eggers--through her unique lens as an obsessive reader. She sings the things you won’t say aloud, of the foolishness, the hopefulness and the almost unbearable humanness of us all. ... more

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