Teflon

from Highway Gothic by Liz + the Baguettes

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Track 1 of Highway Gothic
ButterBean Records
BB002

Recorded at ButterBean, Mystery Street, Arlington Heights Memorial Library, and Stagby Manor/Room of Requirement, Chicago.

It's not Teflon exactly. It's C8, a chemical that was used in the manufacture of Teflon until it was replaced by Gen X a few years ago. But we do all have it in our bloodstreams.

lyrics

Call it a heartbeat click-track modem-blip slipstream V-chip trigger warning
Call it a layer a layer a layer a layer of distance
Call it a mystery, the hard code, the unprogrammable, the ether
Call it a level a level a level a level of remove

Everything hits more and less than it should
And maybe it's the Teflon in my blood

I can't feel a thing
I'm reaching out, I'm reaching

And in the side-impact airbag rear-cam warning signs and speed traps
It's all the same, all the same, all the same
You're like a gluten-free may-contain low-calorie guilty lapse
Your kisses taste like aspartame

Everything hits more and less than it should
And maybe it's the Teflon in my blood

I can't feel a thing
I'm reaching out, I'm reaching

In the dream I speed into the curve
The skeleton barrier in the headlights
Gun the car too fast to swerve
Plunge into the night
Try to find one last living nerve

I can't feel a thing
I'm reaching out, I'm reaching

credits

from Highway Gothic, released March 29, 2019
Liz Bagby: lead and backing vocals, rhythm guitar
Charlie Crane: percussion, keyboard, lead guitar, modem, 3D printer
Thomas Zeitner: bass guitar

Produced, engineered, and mastered by Charlie Crane.

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Liz + the Baguettes Chicago, Illinois

Indie rock + alt-country + post-punk = post-country. At least that's what we tell ourselves.

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