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1.	Rodeo 03:09	lyrics	buy track

2.	Cross My Fingers 02:46	lyrics	buy track

3.	Next Girl 02:10	info	buy track
4.	Ignore It 02:41	lyrics	buy track

5.	Get Mad 02:54	lyrics	buy track

6.	Need Too Much 01:37	lyrics	buy track

7.	Work Hard 03:15	lyrics	buy track

8.	IUD 02:11	lyrics	buy track

9.	Constellations 02:05	lyrics	buy track

10.	Brighton Blvd 02:57	lyrics	buy track

11.	Truth About You 03:32	lyrics	buy track

12.	Telescope 03:01	lyrics	buy track

13.	On Time 02:06	lyrics	buy track

about

Lisa Prank is a true-blue romantic. In fact, “I’m very preoccupied with romance,” songwriter Robin Edwards admits. On her second full-length for Father/Daughter Records, Perfect Love Song, Edwards acknowledges the ultimate joke of love: that there is no perfect, so you’ll get tripped up while chasing it—but what else could possibly be more rich, more exhilarating, more everything, skinned knees be damned? Stitching together pop-punk panache and pillow talk introspection, Perfect Love Song finds Lisa Prank not in pursuit of the flawless impossible, as the title may suggest. Rather, she’s interested in the entire experience of love and learning through it. “I never learned how to get mad,” Edwards sings on the reflective “Get Mad”—but she did learn how to write totally gratifying pop songs about it. Perfect Love Song is an album that takes a soft-focus gaze at romance’s sharpest points and edges, both the exciting peaks and the scary cliffs.

As Edwards was navigating a drawn out, Lifetime-movie level heartbreak, she found herself drifting back towards the home she had in her friendships. She moved back into her old room in storied Seattle punk house, Spruce House, sharing a door with Tacocat’s Bree McKenna (who’s also her bandmate, along with Julia Shapiro, in the supergroup Who Is She?). She’d knock and ask McKenna for feedback on songs, who wound up playing bass on the record. To produce, Edwards tapped close friend and indie pop legend Rose Melberg of Tiger Trap, The Softies, and Go Sailor. Melberg’s artistic alignment and personal closeness to Edwards gave her near psychic insight into Lisa Prank’s sonic goals, but at enough remove to provide breakthroughs to Edwards at stuck points (Melberg also co-wrote “Telescope,” and sang harmonies on several tracks). It was a collaboration that felt like coaching, leading her achieve her ideal polished-punk sound, alongside Ian LeSage who engineered and mixed the record at the Vault Studios. Recording was fun, too. Friends were around, creating the kind of lighthearted, mutually supportive feeling one needs surrounding them feel like themselves again after retrieving their heart back from a breakup. Lisa Prank’s last record, Adult Teen, used a Roland MC-505 drum machine, for Perfect Love Song, she traded it in for real life drummer, Tom Fitzgibbon.

Writing Perfect Love Song was Edwards’ opportunity “to personally say all the things that I wanted to say, or wish I had said.” In “Scream the Truth,” a gaslighting extinguisher anthem about reclaiming your sanity, she gets to be mad on her terms: “I wasn’t losing my mind,” she sings. Says Edwards, “it’s about being frustrated seeing someone else navigate the world as a very surface-level nice person who is performatively feminist and social-justice minded, but knowing the truth of how they treat people in their personal life.” The opening track, “Rodeo,” likens the searing, sinking-in feeling of a post-fight realization—“‘cause ‘I don’t wanna be in love’/means I don’t wanna be in love/with you”—to the dangers and desires of the spectacle of love. “By now I know/this is the rodeo I chose,” she sings, electing to get back on her horse and ride, acknowledging the pain that’s part of that game.

“I wish a different emotion was so alive and exciting to me,” Edwards laughs, “but love is just the one that feels so visceral and consuming.” Perfect Love Song explodes the roller coaster snapshots of romance in bursts of poppy neon bright color, with Edwards’ cheeky perspective polished to full pop-punk shine. And the mission of that genre, one could argue, is to keep on bopping along through the bullshit of life. To stay buoyant, to find fun in the big what-ifs and whatevers. It what keeps the dream Lisa Prank afloat: as she sings on “Constellations,” “still I keep on hoping this is some perfect love song/and we’ll go on and on and on, and on and on, and on.”

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released October 4, 2019

Produced by Rose Melberg

Engineered and mixed in December 2018 & January 2019 by Ian LeSage at the Vault in Seattle, WA

Mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering

The Lisa Prank band is…

Robin Edwards- guitar/vocals
Bree McKenna- bass
Tom Fitzgibbon- drums
Rose Melberg- backup vocals, rhythm guitar on “Telescope”

All songs by Robin Edwards, except “Telescope” by Robin Edwards & Rose Melberg

Design by Faye Orlove, cover photo by Grayson Whitmire

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Track Name: Rodeo: fell out of a dream into your arms
for a moment I pretend I’m home
if I lay still enough
it almost feels like we’re in love

by now I know
this isn’t my first rodeo
by now I know
nobody wants to take it slow

and you don’t wanna be in love
means you don’t wanna be in love
with me

I’m talking so loud when I’m drunk
and I hope I didn’t say too much
you pay me compliments all night
we won’t remember by the morning light

by now I know
this is the rodeo I chose
by now I should know
not to get lost in your show

‘cause I don’t wanna be in love
means I don’t wanna be in love
with you

but I’m still here and so are you
Track Name: Cross My Fingers: I can’t calm down
take it all personally
do we work this out
‘cause we’re too afraid to leave?

you act so tough
while I am brokenhearted
knew it was love
before it ever started

I crossed all my fingers
I knocked on wood
I lit a candle for something good

you’d drive all day
just to see me for a night
wonder if they
know about the way we fight

I wake you up
intuition finds the reason
you won’t shut up
convince me not to leave

I cross all my fingers
I knock on wood
I light a candle for something good

I held my breath
every day for a year
the words I read
still haven’t disappeared

I stack up books
and lovers in between
the way it felt
to be trapped in our sheets

I cross all my fingers
I knock on wood
I light ten candles
I draw more cards
delete your number
I ask the stars
for something good
Track Name: Ignore It: I don’t wanna feel this yet
knocking on the doors in my head
pulling all the sheets off our bed
I don’t wanna feel this yet
I don’t wanna regret time we spent
kissing in the car until the song ends
I don’t wanna feel this yet

I don’t wanna miss you yet
I don’t wanna forget how we met
played at that house that got torn down
made tea and you slept on my couch
I don’t wanna miss you yet

so hold me tight so I can sleep tonight
and in the morning I will
ignore it all again

I don’t wanna give up yet
the dream I built for us in my head
a dog and pancakes in the morning
with you that didn’t seem boring

I don’t wanna give up yet
I don’t wanna miss you yet
I don’t wanna feel this yet
Track Name: Get Mad: always sad in the in-betweens
before the doors open
before the sun sets
before the summer

bats flew out from under the bridge
and I walked by just in time
I’m living on these little signs
believing in the magic I can find

got away but the memory remains
street signs all point out the ways
I was hurt but didn’t say

I never learned how to get mad

say it out loud
it won’t burn your mouth
say it out loud
it won’t burn you down
then cry a little, wait for the sun to come out

can’t see the stars from anywhere in this town
the moon’s the only one around
and I don’t wish as much as I used to
but I wish I could sleep like you

I never learned how to get mad
so I lie awake, lie awake
and nothing ever really goes away
Track Name: Need Too Much: don’t know what I need, but I need too much
are there any words that could clear this up?
could you ever hold me tight enough?
baby I don’t sleep without your touch

instead of sheep
I was counting things
I should’ve said
but I was too hurt to think

will I ever be enough for you?
staring at the doors you could walk through
for three short months, the sky’s so blue
I’m living for the highs, what else is new?

you could have anyone
at your fingertips
but baby what I want
is on your lips

do I need too much?
Track Name: Work Hard: they say love is a flower
I’ve heard love is a ghost
maybe love is the way
we feel when we’re home

maybe love is one moment
sometimes love is a bomb
I say love is the job
everyone wants

I know I do
and baby I’ll clock in with you

I will work hard
for our love

I can’t promise forever
even though I believe
I can’t promise you heaven
but with you I will dream

of something new
that we can build
of something true

maybe love is a battlefield
or a magnifying glass
but whatever this thing is

I just wanna make it last
Track Name: IUD: you said it for the first time
walking in Nashville on a Tuesday night
November, the cool breeze
grabbed my waist and smiled at me

you looked into my eyes
and fed me such pretty lies

but it doesn’t matter anymore
our dreams are washed up on the shore
I’ll keep my IUD
and you will keep on lying to me

we’re too broke to have a dog
somehow we talk about growing old
the world that you built me
I wanted so bad to believe
and I did
for a little bit

I miss the normal things you made me wanna do
cooking breakfast, making up with you

but it doesn’t matter anymore
our dreams are washed up on the shore
I’ll keep my IUD
and I’ll forget the way you kissed me
Track Name: Constellations: cried in a hotel wishing I was home
cried when I got back longing for the road

trying to think of ways I could miss you less
can I let my heart escape my head?

I am never writing unless
something is wrong
still I keep on hoping this is
some perfect love song
and we’ll go on and on

now that I’m all in
I never dip my toe
cause my heart just jumps
when I say go

forgot the words
to every sad song
if I tell you now
it’ll come out wrong

thinking of the stars that night
how they shone so bright
couldn’t make out constellations
lost in their light
and they went on and on
Track Name: Brighton Blvd: it doesn’t feel like it used to
driving down Brighton to whatever
show was happening

I can see it clear in the rear view
used to know everything about you
now you’re a picture on a screen

we’d drive around just to hang out
now I wanna tear those condos down
so at least it would look the same

I felt so free in that memory
moonlight, empty streets
You and me

I know that I could call you
we could try to talk about what’s new
what’s your job?
how are you sleeping?
who loves you?
but it wouldn’t feel like it used to
jumping the fence to that swimming pool
like anything could happen

now I live in a new town
I know someday I will miss
the way that it feels now
Track Name: Truth About You: know what was happening all this time
you tried to make me think it
but I wasn’t losing my mind

for months I holed up in our bed
I was messing up the covers
you were messing with my head

go back in time
tell myself to leave at the first lie
go back in time
drive myself away

I wanna scream the truth about you
I wanna scream the truth

guess I understand your jealousy
my friends weren’t the problem
you were just projecting on me

and all those times you went home early
it kills me still but at least
now I see it clearly
now I see you clearly

you should find someone less psychic than me
I’ll always miss our highs, but
I saved my life by leaving

I wasn’t losing my mind
Track Name: Telescope: I wanna be that picture on our wall
laughing in a photobooth
before I knew what I know now

I wanna feel that smile on my face
back when your eyes
could look at me that way

but I’m a sleepless night
unwanted firework
that keeps you up with circular fights
I cry and cry

I could’ve been the promise that you keep
a piece of cake
hands in the warm breeze

I should’ve been like that planet far away
we looked at through a telescope
distant enough to see
you’d never change

cause you’re a door shut tight
your back is turned
I shiver, waiting for the light
you never turn around
you lie and lie

I wanna be a brand new pair of shoes
a rare guitar
someone you wouldn’t do this to
Track Name: On Time: I’m falling for dogs on the streets again
I’m calling you and you listen
the moon is walking me home tonight
I’m starting to think everything’s all right

but I’m still fighting with my head
why do good things fill me with dread?
I wasn’t always afraid of heights
I’m a plane used to cancelled flights

but you are always on time

trying to name the color of your eyes
but they keep changing like I change my mind
and I can’t kiss you enough times
should we meet in your dreams or in mine?

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