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What Will You Do Then?

by Caithlin De Marrais

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1.
I imagine the awkward sex we had Imagination is all I take to bed Good luck come back Good luck come back In the sunlight I could have sworn you said La la la you love me I believed you then Good luck come back Good luck come back Good luck come back Good luck come back Do you feel alone? I feel alone Don’t feel alone Good luck come back I imagine you by my side Never needed luck in love Never had to try your luck Good luck come back Good luck come back Good luck come back Good luck come back Do you feel alone? I feel alone Don’t feel alone Good luck come back
2.
Cunning as a little flower Breaking through the rotting ground I had to hit my face When the night became Too dark and split open the fear Feeling too unusual It rarely changes me at all Once in a lifetime (love) Once in a lifetime (love) All in all, misunderstood All in all, and what is good Once in a lifetime (love) Fit into a little place It really makes a proper path All in all, misunderstood All in all, and what is good Once in a lifetime (love)
3.
They’ve got you Someone relies on you They need your care more than I do They need you there Your love is true Feels like your love is too much and not enough I want to walk beside someone like you Your patience is seeing me through Nothing can compare to being loved by someone like you Feels like your love is too much and not enough
4.
My Astrology 03:24
Hey, let’s open up love How to get together We’re getting better And we’re finally growing up You know me at least enough Even when I’m giving in You know I’m never giving up Pleasure moving down my spine Unconcealing Come lie upon me Come lie upon me Flowers whisper, “Joseline” Name repeating Am I blooming? Am I blooming? Tooth then tongue relax in mouth Stars draw toward us In my astrology In my astrology You make me feel like there could be Something written down In the stars over our heads Second time around We don’t have to say anything Let them speak for us Let them speak for us Let them speak for us Let them speak for us You make me feel like you love me When we’re fooling around Must be the way you hold me
5.
Do I wanna know your secrets Before I fall into your arms? Is this just a bad sign, Bird on the pavement Another wolf at the door again? So let me have a diamond heart Strong enough to break your pain up Let me have a diamond heart Feels like I Could tear the world Apart It’s the killing season Anything can happen Anything at all There’s a ring around the moon And a ring on your finger Is it a good sign? Let me know And let me have a diamond heart Hard enough to withstand this Let me have a diamond heart All it touches turns to something good
6.
I look behind the sun The moon was waiting The clouds unveil his face I think I love the moon I think I love the moon I think I’ll tell the moon tonight Compared to the sun, the moon DGAF The stars reveal his easy way Of all the spheres in the universe And many universes more This one I adore
7.
I’m seeing you through New eyes now The river deep Your gambling heart You’re just a time capsule I opened up But now I dream of your gambling heart It’s been years, baby Should I swallow my pride now or later? You said you never danced in your apartment before I don’t want to fall The words come out, come out my mouth The same words The same way If you’re worried I feel guilt, I don’t I should quit you But I won’t I always seem to choose What I lost over what I got Tears me apart It’s been years, baby Should I swallow my pride now or later? You said you never danced in your apartment with anyone before And I don’t want to fall Again The words come out, come out my mouth The same words The same way Come out
8.
Turnaround 01:42
Turn around let me see what you’ve got on Turn around let me see what you’ve got... Turn around gets too close to call Turn around backed you up against the wall Turn around let me see what you’ve got on Turn around let me see what you’ve got... We don’t play for fortune or for fame Turn around let me see what you’ve got on Turn around let me see what you’ve got on
9.
Happy birthday, baby Another year begins tonight Make a wish ‘cause last year sucked big time There’s no greeting card to open Or a gift wrapped up in a bow The stores were open But I was out of dough True love is so hard to make right these days With the baby crying lately There’s no time to get down and dirty Wish I had something grander A work of art or a trip to Milan But all I’ve got is this wish And a silly song True love is so hard to make right these days All the things we did at 20 Take more time now that we’re 30 Happy birthday, baby We still vote the same party lines But it’s clear You’ve profoundly changed my life Happy birthday, baby
10.
There’s a secret book club in the library Snow day No one is here Just you and me And I’m hiding from something I’m always hiding from something When will I be brave? I’m not ready There’s moth holes on my knees You want the silver dollars only And for me to do an afternoon of emotional labor These beautiful books you pick by their looks Just kidding, you love what’s inside Have you ever seen The Warriors? Everybody’s talking about The Warriors When will I be brave? I just want to be brave I’m not ready

about

Caithlin De Marrais’ third album What Will You Do Then? is incandescent—a candle lit in memory of the moody midnight teenage bedrooms of the early 90’s.
It feels nicked from the “Alternative” section of Tower Records, among CDs by New Order, Depeche Mode, and Siouxsie & The Banshees, from the days before Nevermind appended “-Rock” to the genre’s original name.

Of course What Will You Do Then? is no album from another decade. The songs were mastered by Adam Ayan, who put the finishing touches on Lana Del Rey’s most recent records, and he casts over the proceedings a looming dreaminess.

Lustrous and sometimes deeply spare, the songs took form over the course of two and a half years, shaped by Rainer Maria guitarist Kaia F, with contributions from vocalists Annie Nero and Mark Duplass, multi-instrumentalists Lary Hoffman and Lucola Bang, drummer Stuart Gunter, MIDI programmer Emily Lee, and others.

What Will You Do Then? is a question tumbling towards an answer. It is the bookmark of a coming love, an embrace of resonance and relationality. These are songs enchanted, slowly circling the dizzy edge of ecstasy.

credits

released February 12, 2021

All songs written by Caithlin De Marrais © 2020
All songs recorded & mixed by Kaia F

except “Birthday Song” recorded & mixed by Caithlin De Marrais.

Additional recording on “My Astrology” by Lucola Bang,
on “Gambling Heart” by Lary Hoffman,
and on “EightyFour” by Annie Nero.
Drum recording on “EightyFour” by Stuart Gunter,
and on “Secret Book Club” by James Gunter.

Artwork by Akané Ogura

Mastered by Adam Ayan at Gateway

Released by Skeletal Lightning

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Music from the vocalist/bassist of Rainer Maria.

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