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Beverly Beverly Beverly

by Ryan Werner

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1.
Beverly 00:53
Beverly Beverly Beverly Beverly
 Beverly Beverly Beverly Beverly 
Beverly Beverly Beverly Beverly
 Beverly Beverly 
What’s your fantasy?

 Welcome the spring, the summer rain
 Softly turned, to sing again
 We are ever new
 We are ever new

2.
It was the season of the witch
 And we were focused
 on getting down to brass tacks and fingertips

 There was nothing left to say
 For a little while
 For a little while

 Nothing but the hits
 During this circumstantial feast where 
My deeds are done and done again as my life is

 For a little while
 For a little while

 For a little while
 We were thirsting at the seams
 For a little while
 As wild as it seems
3.
I had a dream last night
 That I saw you in a movie I was
 Dying in
 Never thought you’d be the one to say that

 We live like amnesiacs
 And we should have never split that pack of

 Rose water cigarettes
 Rose water cigarettes
 You’re the best taste that I’ve tasted yet next to rose water cigarettes

4.
Feed me French kisses every evening
 And I’ll try to be the man you need

 Sweet tea
 We’re swinging from the ceiling
 Sugar sick and puking neon green 

It’s like I’m dreaming
 Like every fuckin’ evening
 Wonder why I’m always fast asleep?

 And baby, I hope you can believe me
5.
In a lipstick minute
 I'll take you to the moon
 We’ll drink the milk of paradise 
And feast on honey dew

 With a million minutes 
I couldn’t fill a tablespoon
 With the luck I had until I saw you
 Walk into the room
 Like you always do 

I just want something to go right tonight
 And I know that you do, too 
I’ll put your herringbone sweater in a long love letter
 And send it off to you
 Like I always do

6.
Gasoline or perfume
 Baby, I don’t care

 Nicotine 
Dipped in Listerine 
She just wants to feel
 Fuckin’ everything

 She’s not built for distance
 She’s built for speed
 Beauty and the nosebleed

 Traversing all distractions
 Anything will do 

She sees things
 When she tries to sleep 
How could I not forgive her when she’s
 Not so sweet? 

I’ve got patience
 And she’s got me
 She’s got me 

If she knew about mornings
 Then she’d tell me every morning: 

“You can dance
 You can jive
 Having the time of your life”

 See that girl
 Watch that scene
 Beauty and the nosebleed

7.
Desperate measures
 Neither business nor pleasure
 The end of a tether
 A little bit of forever 

I live every day with the best of intent 
But I live every night subtracting the day I just spent

 Thinking it over 
I’m just thinking it over and over
 Thinking it over 
I’m just thinking it over and over and over

8.
It’s five o’clock in the morning
 You sleep hot and askew
 Just dreaming of absence excused 

It’s easy, I swear

 It’s two o’clock in the goddamn morning
 Awake in disgust
 Convinced you’re undone and too much

 Don’t be hard on yourself
 It’s easy, I swear
 You melt in my mouth
 It’s easy, I swear
 Don’t be hard on yourself 
It’s easy, I swear
 You melt in my mouth
9.
Out here in paradise
 We take time to become brand new 
Don’t make me say it twice
 And make me finally turn to

 Charms and curses

 We live on candy canes
 Once a year we have a good time
 The day the trouble came
 You were modeling a paradigm of

 Charms and curses 

I smashed a crystal ball
 and suffered the consequence
 You cast a spell again
 And ended up with this 
It just takes a little luck and

 Charms and curses, 
Feeling new 
Charms and curses,
 me and you

10.
Who said the best things in life are free?
 Tradition and tragedy 

Lately
 We’ve been 
Screaming
 We’re screaming

 Fireworks, how did we never see?
 Arguing, except we agree 
Everything’s a match when you’re a flame

 We’re dead! We’re dead! We’re dead!

 What good is a beat without a heart? 
I’d rather be lucky than smart 

Lately
 We’ve been
 Screaming
 We’re screaming 

Fireworks, how did we never see?
 Arguing, except we agree
 Everything’s a moth when you’re a flame

 We listen, we listen, we listen, we listen to the sound of

 Fireworks, how did we never see?
 Arguing, except we agree
 Everything’s a match when you’re a flame
 Everything’s a moth when you’re a flame
 Everything’s a catch besides your grave
11.
Once I loved a scientist 
The universe revealed itself to me

 Space and time and everything 
The dust and distance
 Combusted wishes
 As she’s moving on
 Just another lost neutron

 Once I loved a scientist
 But the universe said, “I don’t care for love”

12.
Disco ball
 We’re shining like we didn’t plan it at all
 Tangerine
 We’re sweet and juicy if you know what I mean

 The scent of a candle in the palm of your hand
 Dancing a line
 to an old western band
 It’s all changing but it ain’t what it seems
 This burger’s impossible
, but we’re living the dream

 Woo!

 Sunshine state
 Slots and citrus, baby, isn’t it great?

 And now I’m stitching snakes in the seat of my car
 Flavortown, baby, ain’t too far
 It’s Halloween and I don’t know how
 But Janie’s a cult classic now 

In leopard print we’ll take a bow
 Cuz Janie’s a cult classic now
13.
Radio
 playing hits
 from pins and needles
 Five AM
 Wooden ships
 bring wooden people 

Domino 
Falling down 
According to plan
 Guess that’s why they call me
 Yes they call me
 Yes they call
 Working man

 As within a dream
 God made Hazel and Cream

about

All music and lyrics by Ryan Werner except the parts that are clearly (hopefully) fair-use references to other songs, so don’t sue him.

Recorded sporadically between July 2020 and October 2021.

Mixed by Matt Hohmann in October 2021.

Mastered by nobody, because I'm a cheapskate.

Special thanks to Emma Wilson (who also provided backing vocals), Elliot Imes, and Randall Guerdet for being early listeners — the helpful kind, even though they probably should have told me to shut the fuck up a couple times.

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released October 31, 2021

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Ryan Werner Cuba City, Wisconsin

Since I can't be in Thin Lizzy, I guess I'll just make ambient music in my basement.

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