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You Can't Fuck The Internet

by Amelia Jackie

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1.
Velvet Leash 03:38
VELVET LEASH you keep me you keep me on a long velvet leash you leave me tied up to anything i have a stone it’s the size of your mouth your magic, magic mouth hot water and a brand new key look at what you have done to me do you wanna dance with me baby i don’t got nobody but you do you wanna leave this party i hate everyone but you you are not vanilla you’re sweet cream you might bless my heart but you’re still so goddamn mean i have to try not to touch all their shiny things i have to read all their magazines we have to just try to look like the rich girls but we’ll never look rich as the rich girls milk money, warm bread big ideas that they put in my head do you wanna give it to me gently i don’t got nobody but you do you wanna tell it to me slowly you hate everybody too i am not vanilla i’m sweet cream i might bless your heart but i’m still georgia mean you keep me on a velvet leash on a long velvet leash you want to tie me down to anything on a long velvet leash
2.
ALL AROUND TOWN your big black car it drags me all around town kiss all the pretty boys and throw your money down when the money’s all gone you’re still hot as coal and i know you you’d rather lose than fold tell me what to do with you anything you want me to and yes i do you were born in the middle of a hot night in july and your momma couldn’t tell if you were laughing or crying a storm blew in right off the gulf so you never did learn when enough was enough tell me what to do with you anything you want me to and yes i do so i sing you the song of your favorite night bird and i buy you the things that you don’t deserve heartache heartache heartache is old and it grows in your chest like a black black mold tell me what to do with you anything you want me to and yes i do
3.
ELECTRIC EYES trade you my raisins for your m&m's rest of your kool-aid by the jungle gym ate every cherry off the cherry tree ran from my neighbors so he couldn't catch me you could ride to town on that bottom lip your electric, electric eyes and your bottom lip oh louise i know your kind you got sugar in your blood and sugar on you mind sugar in your blood honey, sugar on your mind we need blood for our gravy juice for our gin i can tell you got it all by how you walked in we need cream for our coffee butter for our rolls and we don’t need nobody to save our souls you could ride to town on that bottom lip your electric, electric eyes and your bottom lip oh virginia i know your kind you got sugar in your blood and sugar on you mind sugar in your blood honey, sugar on your mind i cut the silk from his suit jacket because i know my mama she deserved it at night i wake up with a pain in my teeth you're the only ones whose gonna satisfy me you're the only ones whose gonna satisfy me you could ride to town on that bottom lip your electric electric eyes and your bottom lip oh louise i know your kind you got sugar in your blood and sugar on you mind sugar in your blood
4.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NAME when you born they gave you the most beautiful name and you tried your best to take it but it only brought you pain oh the mirror oh the mirror is a very tricky thing it can make you see things that i swear i can not see and who, honey, who can tell why being born seems less painful than death close the curtains lock every door just because i hate my body doesn’t mean i can’t love yours and oh my darling oh my darling why would you want to be healthy if this is what they claim unwell to be and who, honey, who can tell why they would want to send an angel to hell when you were born they gave you the most beautiful name
5.
TERRIBLY BLUE momma wanted it all to be good take you by the ankle and dip you in gold everybody knows that we did not have gold so she washed you in diet coke how can you love me if you’re lying all the time its so hard to do right but damn its worth a try the cops want to nab you but their laws don’t apply you frighten the devil with your beautiful eyes the only way out is by the skin of your teeth tear gas, red roses, and cold concrete how can you love me when i’m leaving all the time i can’t always protect you but damn its worth a try i hope that you live for a hundred more years till all of your teeth are rotten or gold and all you can eat is bread and honey white bread and honey and red rose jelly how can you love me if i’m leaving all the time its so hard to do right but damn i’m gonna try i’ll get you to paris if it’s the last i do cuz i heard in the springtime it is terribly blue
6.
ICE COLD PLUM brought you one ice cold plum it was dark as your heart your heart that i won sweet saddle oxfords bad words in my mouth barefoot on the gravel behind our house open the window its raining outside you only ever call me when you already crying that ok, sugar that fine as long as you come back and see me some time you’re gonna die darling, so am i i’m gonna love you in the meanwhile daddy works all night at least that’s what they say till the cops pull up in the driveway open the window its raining outside you just walked in the front door and you’re already lying that ok, sugar that fine as long as you come back and see me some time brought you one golden goose she laid and she laid but we still turned her loose think that your lost but we’re still up a ways i’ll be waiting for you in the driveway open the window its raining outside you just walked in the front door and you’re already lying that ok, sugar that fine as long as you come back and see me some time
7.
Favorite 03:35
FAVORITE we got big in texas it was hotter than june you stood next to me and the whole town swooned you were touching your neck you were trying to tell me what i could do to possibly quell you but in one single bite i split the apple in two you knew i could do it did you know you could too? you traded your favorite for a slice of pie and big old empty bed and now you’re free at least that’s what you said i can beat you at rummy i can beat you at gin but who will i play in minneapolis you’re in kentucky with a broken down truck callin me crying said i miss you stop much but one thousand miles isn’t that far to walk when you’ve got a chain on your ankle and you like weather this hot you traded your favorite for a jar of jam and big old losing hand and now you’re free at least that’s the plan i traded my favorite for a slice of pie and big old empty bed and now i’m free at least thats what i said
8.
White Rabbit 04:49
WHITE RABBIT you made me a dress of white, white leather you put it on me and take it off no one does it better i built you a house of baby finch feathers can you miss a town if you don’t miss the weather i’m gonna lose you i’m gonna lose you i’m gonna lose you i’m gonna lose you i’m gonna lose you honey, i’m gonna lose you and nothing can be done can you skin a rabbit fast as you run your mouth can you wrap your love in white fur can you save her from the winter do you miss the sound of the snow falling from the ether do you miss her mouth me neither baby baby, me neither i’m gonna lose you i’m gonna lose you i’m gonna lose you i’m gonna lose you i’m gonna lose you honey, i’m gonna lose you and nothing can be done i must have some your dust left on me somewhere closet full of your clothes ash on my window sill can we build a boat of fine white pine sawdust falling from the rafters ever after baby ever after i’m gonna lose you i’m gonna lose you i’m gonna lose you i’m gonna lose you i’m gonna lose you honey, i’m gonna lose you and nothing can be done
9.
LAUGHING & CRYING the girl that i love she’s got a big golden tongue and a heart made out of coal now i sing the blues from way down in my soul she planted a seed deep in my chest and it grew a tall grass now i have to cry every time that i laugh laughing and crying oh laughing and crying i’m gonna wait right here for you till i’m worth my weight in coal ever since i was born i’ve been a strange child i can not tell you why i like to stay inside when the sun is in the sky i don’t know why i can’t be on time but when i get up to go i put a pot of tea right there on my stove laughing and crying oh laughing and crying i’m gonna wait right here for you till i’m worth my weight in coal the girl that i love she’s got a big golden tongue and a heart made out of lead i can not seem to get her out of my head laughing and crying oh laughing and crying i’m gonna wait right here for you till i’m worth my weight in coal
10.
Cook & Sew 05:13
COOK & SEW oh my sweet georgia pine ask weeping willow for some time and your accent sometimes it sounds like your holding honey in your mouth and your house is made of molasses the blackstrap kind i melt right down to your red velvet mouth every time i don’t mean that you’re sweet but we all know you’re fine whiskey with my water sugar with my tea you keep me good company if you want me to i’ll cook and sew i’ll cook and sew if you want me to i’ll cook and sew i’ll cook and sew i kneel right down to the wide lonely road every time and i don’t mean that that’s sweet but it does do me fine oh my sweet georgia peach let me sink my teeth i melt right down to your red velvet mouth every time and i don’t mean that your sweet but we all know you’re fine

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released April 8, 2022

All songs written by Amelia Jackie
Produced by Robin MacMillan at Faraway sound in Brooklyn, NY
Mastered by Jade Payne
Vocals and guitar on all songs by Amelia Jackie
Drums and bass guitar on all songs by Robin MacMillan
Electric guitar on tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 by Ava Omega Jarden
Slide guitar on tracks 6 & 10 by Walt McClements
Electric guitar on tracks 1, 4, 9 by Robin MacMillan

Executive producers: Sarah Rose Janko, Bibi Belo, Laura Brown, Emily Paine, Alivia Bloch, Angie Boylan, Alana Moskowitz, Evie Gimbel, Cyrus Dunham, Ava Omega Jarden, Acacia Marable, Tina Gordon, Julia Read, Willa Nasatir, Adriane Gonzalez, Anthea Williams, Jules Maskell, Cody-Rose Clevidence, Francesca Rome-Marie, Alynda Mariposa Segarra.

Incredible and gigantic gratitude to those who supported me in boundless ways throughout the creation of these songs and this record : my ever-loving crazy family, Mom, Dad, Jocelyn, Adriane, Janek, Cassie, Bella, Viv, Elise, Carson, Takiaya, Mel, Carly, Olivia, Mickey, Otelia, Gabby, Cati, Minori, Kali-Ma, Cole, Siobhan, Widow, Khara, Machete, Shawna, Jasper, Franny, Kahele, Nose, Lamby, Ramdasha, Natalie, Quinton, Devan, Walt, Quori, Bobbi, and many others.

Original Photographs by Willa Nasatir.
Cover Art by Natalie Woodlock
Insert design by Bunny Michael & Peter McPartland
a huge thank you to Rissa Hochberger for Album art design help

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Amelia Jackie New York, New York

Raised by a single mom and three sisters, Amelia Jackie spent most of her childhood moving around from place to place, a lifestyle that continued through adulthood until settling in to New York City.

Her debut album, 'You Can't Fuck The Internet,' beckons us into the sensual environments that spawned her, where the smell of sweet peaches meets the fumes of burnt diesel.
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