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Carry On Regardless

by Baby Teeth

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1.
You can only novocaine your nose so long It’s a new day gotta be strong Every bird can sing so why can’t you You got ideas but you don’t follow through So many ways that you let other people down You’re lucky this isn’t a smaller town You’re lucky everyone forgets the hurt you cause Just bundle up and pray to Santa Claus Don’t go outside, you’ll wipe out You need a cool rag, just take a timeout Don’t go outside, you’ll wipe out You need a cool rag, just take a timeout Don’t talk to anyone it’s safer that way You’ll just regret it, forget it OK Don’t go outside You go and see the show alone and you stand like a stone You count the minutes til you go back home You count the minutes til you’re back on your bike That’s the only part you actually like Once upon a time it all used to feel so good It was like Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood Everybody was in bands and playing their shows It was a comfort being one of those You haven’t cried real tears in twenty-five years You think you’ll do it in a couple of beers You think it’s worth it to go out with your friends You think they wanna give up their weekends Everybody wanna stay in their house Everybody wanna stay with their spouse You’re nothing like you thought you’d be A shut-in terrified of novelty
2.
We all laughed at your food supply We said you were prepping for nothing We didn’t trust you, so preoccupied With our little joking and judging Now don’t you just love It’s all coming true my baby Here on the bleeding edge of the world Nothing but love For you my baby Here on the bleeding edge of the world We’ve all been waiting for your call Could you tell us where you been hiding A lot to adjust to, and we dropped the ball Anyone else you’ll be inviting Your paranoia We’re all here for ya We’ll share your shelter space Your preparation The liquidation Our foolish human race
3.
Ain’t it just like a prison here tonight You told me you didn’t wanna be the one to start the fight So we drive through the dark in the cold winter wind And when we see a midrange hotel, we check in You got a lot of nerve is what you said Tellin’ them we need just one king bed Do you think you’re hot shit, do you think I’m twenty-two When the sun comes up I’m leaving you The volcano erupts It’ll swallow you up Til there’s no frontier left to roam You always got by on luck And now it swallows you up Til you don’t know how to get home Check us in And you park the rental car Pull a tired joke from your tired repertoire We walk the long hallway In anonymous off-white We’re not gonna make it through the night
4.
I carried all his clubs across the green golf course I wore the crisp white shirts with the little horse And then Penelope’s dad, he’d call for me I’d dance for him before he dashed off to the symphony I learned to love my puppet strings and the string quartets I grabbed his tennis balls in between his tennis sets I studied silverware, I watched the length of my hem Hoping one day I’d be one of them But old money likes old metal now Beethoven’s too hard to take They want Poison and Whitesnake I’m saying hi to that lowbrow Cause old money likes old metal now Fresh from school and named executive assistant to Penelope’s dad Twenty-five years and it’s the only job I’ve ever had I jumped all over the board like a little chess piece But I guess they don’t play chess no more, I missed the press release Tonight I wear my cut-off shorts, beer in a plastic cup The light’s too bright but it’s 80’s night and it’s filling up Penelope’s dressed for the lumberyard But she’s got the softest hands I brought my business cards but She’s just here to hear the cover bands
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I don’t recognize myself This image of faded health Who is that, who is that Nicotine band around my neck Just skin and bones to protect Who is that, when’s the real one coming back I can’t stand by you anymore I can’t stand by you anymore Just find your own way back to shore I can’t stand by you anymore Wet magazines on the tub Dry off and now a foot rub I need it, I need it Brain full of my disease All the sweetest memories Deleted
6.
Maybe you just needed a break Maybe you just needed a break Maybe you just needed a break Maybe you just needed a break
7.
Saw you making it with my best friend I tried to look away A night of deception with no obvious end I tried to look away But fate had other plans for me Had to be there, I had to see They say the truth will set you free I tried to look away I tried to look away I tried to look away I ran for cover and I hid from the light I tried to look away We couldn’t hug it out and we were too drunk to fight I tried to look away But the ground beneath me shook And my heart’s an open book Does anyone wanna take a look I tried to look away I tried to look away I tried to look away And let the chips fall where they may You’re short on soul But everyone’s gotta butter the roll I’m long on time Just try to tell my mind to look away
8.
She wears her rain boots when there’s puddles on the ground All the way to school she jumps up and down She smiles back at me, my heart’s already broke Making sure I get the joke And I try to hold on But she’s already gone I know I should move along But I pull back and hold on She knows the dance moves that her parents like the best Looking back to make sure we’re impressed Pretty soon she’ll change her tune, we’ll be old and obsolete Looking back on something sweet Don’t leave me baby, don’t leave me now
9.
I just want my time to play It’s hard to find it in my busy day I gotta get away Evil machines spewing information That I’m chewing and choke down And soon we’re underground I just want to play I just want to play Checking all these messages It stresses and it sucks my passion out Forgetting how to shout Technology you’re killing me You kill my babies long before they’re born Can’t even blow my horn If it’s less than ideal If the hook is hard to feel If the words are hard to say I hope you feel it anyway
10.
Cut me loose, it’s acceptable use of the border Tonight my view is from the barbecue on the lawn Thrill of the chase became choosing the place where we’d order Go out and play, we knew there’d come a day you’d be gone But oh from over here I’m good I won’t interfere It’s all yours, I’ll leave by the dawn Traded my juice for acceptable use of the border You got the clout and so you’re stepping out on your own You take the kid she don’t fit with my new sleep disorder Hours go by it’s like trying to lie on a bone Now everything’s fine How could you have the gall I’m decaying like wine I’m just lonely that’s all
11.
You say you wanna get down, well It gets lost in translation You say you wanna get down, well I’ve been in hibernation Lately I’ve been feeling old like I’m ready to retire You could bring me in from the cold and I could use a little fire Tell me what you want me to do Tell me what you want me to do Tell me what you want me to I don’t live inside of you Tell me what you want me to do Been a while since I’ve been around, now I’m your reluctant target Had a lover but she left town, now I’m back out on the market We were trying to have a kid, but We didn’t get so lucky Break us up is what it did, now I’m back here in Kentucky Unsound on the edge of town Better when there’s no one else around A couple beers I’ll show my fears Here you come for the breakdown
12.
Was there a choice in how I used my voice Would I profit from a pop hit Cause I read the books on how to write the hooks But no hit songs, I did it wrong Although they sounded hot to me The public seemed to disagree So I put away my pen So I'd never get hurt again All the pain I’m running from How hard could I try No fortune no fame no fun just All the pain I’m running from Ten years ago, we played our final show And we came back, we’re just lame hacks, but Can't stop the songs and so we carry on Regardless of the harvest The game is up, lift up your beer More a hobby than career We'll never see a royalty Still we pledge our loyalty Where is the music coming from Up there in the sky I gave it up at thirty-one, so Where is the music coming from Don’t know where it's coming from We don't want to try Smartest move is playing dumb Don’t know where it's coming from

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"Some prefer to back heady thoughts with deeply serious music, but Baby Teeth specialize in writing earworms you don’t see coming and playful sophistication as their preferred delivery system. Carry On Regardless is stuffed to the gills with compositions that go down easy, will take you a long time to digest, and keep you coming back for more."
-- Third Coast Review

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released May 2, 2023

Abraham Levitan — vocals, keyboards
Jim Cooper — bass, vocals, guitar, melodica
Peter Andreadis — drums, vocals, guitar

Additional vocals and guitars by Bobby Conn

Music and lyrics by Abraham Levitan
Arrangements by Baby Teeth and Bobby Conn

Recorded and produced by Bobby Conn, Chicago, February-May 2022
Mastered by Jett Galindo at The Bakery, Los Angeles, November 2022

Photography by Sarah Elizabeth Larson @selfoto
Design by tiny. @tinychicago

Visit www.babyteeth.band for inquiries and fan mail
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Thank you: Derek Becker, Jeanine O’Toole, Chris Salveter, Laura McKenzie, Devin Davis, Andrea Bauer, Beth McDonald, Jason Narducy, Jon Steinmeier, Tim & Katie Tuten, Mitch Marlow, Marty Lennartz, Sharon Lanza, Azita, Robbie Fulks, Ezra Furman, Nora O’Connor, Jonathan Lloyd Yaeger, and Bobby Lopez.

Special thanks to our friends and families, without whom we couldn’t carry on regardless.

If I should labor through daylight and dark,
Consecrate, valorous, serious, true,
Then on the world I may blazon my mark;
And what if I don't, and what if I do?
— Dorothy Parker

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Purveyors of fine Chicago pop, on the bleeding edge of good taste since 2003. Raised by Todd Rundgren, ELO, Hall & Oates, and Queen.

"Integration of FM-era pop, from glam to power pop, bandannaed cock-rock and New Romanticism, shouldn't come this easy, or sound this good." -- Pitchfork
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