MAITA - Someone's Lost Their Wallet
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KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
MAITA - "Someone's Lost Their Wallet" from the 2020 album Best Wishes on Kill Rock Stars.
Throughout the month of May, KEXP has been celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. We’re putting an extra spotlight this week on API artists with this week’s Song of the Day picks, starting off with MAITA’s excellent “Someone’s Lost Their Wallet.”
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“[MAITA’s] ‘Someone's Lost Their Goddamn Wallet,’ setting the pace as the second track on Best Wishes (out May 15th on Kill Rock Stars), is steeped in the songwriting tradition of jaunty, lighthearted folk-rock being used as a Trojan Horse for the creeping dread of existentialism. It's 3 AM and the party is still moving through the night presumably without incident or noise complaints, both the front and back door are being used, bodies are moving around in the enjoyably predictable way they always move around at parties.”
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| 0:00.0 | Raising hell like that which can rise from conditions on sterilized cracks can |
| 0:09.2 | pour a new salt like sunshine makes a keen knife feel so blind |
| 0:16.0 | And I can see you all the while falling in words like you meant to this old film I can't quite sit through now I want to be |
| 0:30.2 | alone without you. Now someone's walking out the back door, |
| 0:33.0 | someone's walking out the back door, someone's drinking on the front porch two shoulders for my left shoulder |
| 0:46.5 | weapons about my name. |
| 0:47.5 | You go in three steps from the source of water, push and do relief. |
| 0:52.0 | The center hits me like a bullet proper we will all forget |
| 0:55.7 | this place someday I'm gonna die where is the time two hours stuck their shortcuts |
| 1:00.7 | 3 a.m. and nothing for I saw the roots of the case. |
| 1:04.3 | Chaos all the text bomb. |
| 1:06.3 | This is full filled by me said the rated someone's last the damn wallet. |
| 1:10.9 | I'm the one's not. |
| 1:12.1 | I've gotten you're all gone nurse. |
| 1:17.0 | You're all gone nurse. |
| 1:20.0 | Meh, eh? There's Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, |
| 1:33.4 | you know. |
| 1:35.0 | Automatic, o'erpepeale. |
| 1:41.0 | This machine videos and credit you turn left worlds I'll step backward check my |
| 1:50.0 | polls until I'm better now I can't see I don't want to give I'm here to claim what was |
| 1:59.9 | promised me check the living room target on the roof. |
| 2:05.0 | Once I find you, I won't follow you. Now there's still time to catch the harder drinking on the bitter water turn the sun for worse or better at some time I've seen |
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