Robocall: Annotated Lyrics

maybe you’d see

me eye Naomii

(Wolf no. 3) and by proxy

you’d know

i’m flawed but trying

so far, we’ve heard from Yoni wolf and naomi wolf on this album. that’s two wolfs. if yoni is number one and naomi is number 3, that means there is a number two. that would be one of my exes, who i won’t name.

snore captain led

a mental bootcamp &

I know what to do

but i think I will still entertain this tinder scammer

for as long as it takes

Snore captain is a very real character in my life, and this is actually him. i wonder if you’ll ever meet him. he’s one of my dearest friends and has a lot to do with basic printer.

for the skepticism to set in

for the skepticism to set in

For the skepticism to set in

for the skepticism to...

how many times

can you bear

to let me go and suffer?

i’ve put this girl through the ringer, i really have. i spewed hate her way, i’ve groveled at her feet, i’ve been dismissive and distant - I’ve put her through the weirdest array of horrible manic-depressive reactions. every time i would come back to her with a plea for friendship, she would oblige it, happily. it feels saintly.

wondering why

you don’t drop

me off your

world forever

one robocall

from 412:

the only time

i’m dumb enough to answer the phone

i never answer robocalls, but one came from the pittsburgh area code and i picked it up without a second thought.

and here comes

big thief

on discover weekly

she was a big fan of big thief. it felt like a taunt one week when i found them at the top of my spotify discover weekly playlist.

I’ll try to find

a way to play

the rex theater

one of the biggest venues in pittsburgh…until it closed down due to COVID-19 this year.

i’ll be touring

for as long as it takes

‘til the day i’m finally let in,

just a few days before your wedding,

your rejection’s what needs forgetting

if I ever hope to get better

I should throw away all her letters

give it up on trying to get her if I ever hope to get...

i have a bunch of letters she wrote me when we were dating. i’ve kept them because they’re full of a lot of beautiful things. i pulled them out the other day and didn’t put them back because after i released this record, i considered just tossing them. these are actually them.

how many times can you bear to let me go and suffer?

wondering why you don’t drop

me off your world forever