B I N K I S H A P I R O

A D A M G R E E N
H E R E I A M
Looking down the line at you
Left a trail I hope you will undo
The echoes of failure incite someone
To learn to feel the flavor of the sun
Here I am
Meet me as before and more again
I wont let my endings keep me from you again
Taking you from the back of my mind
To keep you with me always all the time
Imagined scenes I hoped for you
Pretending to be realistic too
Here I am
Meet me as before and more again
I wont let my endings keep me from you again
Crack through the grit
Look up at what youve touched
Hiding yourself
In the wrong place for love
Here I am
Meet me as before and more again
I wont let my endings keep me from you again

J U S T T O M A K E M E F E E L G O O D
Ask me things with no warning
Has someone been questioning for you
She used to lie and abide
In my time
Just to make me feel good
Dont assume Im just boring
But mourning a love thats not forming
She used to stray like a bull in my maze
Just to make me feel good
Someone who really knows you
Offers no mystery to slave through
I cant do that and it aint so bad
Ask me why Im not waiting
For you in your new safe haven
I dont have to do everything twice
Just to make you feel nice
Whats to prove with your prying
You think Im too dumb to be lying
She laid to rest all the worst of her best
Just to make me feel good
Someone who really knows you
Offers no mystery to slave through
I cant do that and it aint so bad
Ask me things with no warning

C A S A N OV A
Forgive my ugliness should I find out
Something I dont wanna know about
Dont disinclude me, treat me like a kid
Casanova to the mentally ill
I dont know why it comes as no surprise
Assuming demotion with tears in your eyes
I dont want the wrong person holding me
I know where youve been your minds
an easy read
Why are you always finding
New ways of wasting my time
Why are you always hiding
Am I not supposed to look you in the eye
Why are you always finding
New ways of wasting my time
Why are you always hiding
Am I not supposed to look you in the eye?

P I T Y L OV E
My heart is everywhere splitting out like thunder
Everybody, everybodys cheating on each other
Oh I was out for what youve never shown
Just cause I expect it doesnt make it so
Aint too proud for kneeling
My pity, pity love almost stronger
than the real thing
You said I was too nice thinking you could take it
Leaving in a huff, wishing time was more spacious
Oh you can try to keep the outside out
But I love you more than youll allow
I have not nor will be
I offer pity love sometimes so strong you fear me
My mind was everywhere and my worry came to
Mistake my pity love for the kind that needs you
Collecting all the pieces that I found
I ought to take you right back to the pound
I wish youd not have me
Defective to the point that always left your
boyfriends laughing

D O N T Y O U WA N T M E T O
Dont be generous with my faults
Ill be more like a woman, less like a lady
If you want me to
Aint I younger than you all
Youll see, youre just like me in fast forward
Not a day too soon
I may be a baby but not forever
Ill do anything, dont you want me to
One day Ill be a man
An old face like a maze
Tending to our own, if you want it so
Everyones a dog till they find someone they love
Ill do anything at all, dont you want me to
With jealousy as my witness
You know Id do it best
Theres no other way to say it
Why dont you love me yet
I may be a baby but not forever
Ill do anything, dont you want me to

P L E A S A N T R I E S
Whats in between all those pleasantries
How do you think most times
Ive been searching for some passion
for my actions
Now you know that its full price
You know how and you know why
Youre not the bedroom type
Nightly fading just what are you celebrating
Old fashioneds burn your short fuse dry
Whatever this is the pleasures all his
Endlessly trailing my dreams
No need to pretend I want you instead
To council her excellency
I cant be the first to say youre the worst
Surely theres one or two
I care more if you act as though you like me
Than if you really do
Living a lie to a song you cant hide
Your paintings are still in the tube
I needed to fall, you need not crawl
I punish myself with you
What was between all those pleasantries
What did you hope youd find
I was waiting for the chance you never gave me
Im still working on my line

I N E V E R F O U N D O U T
Theres nothing to you, you have two
of everything
Dont you know it
Youre for forgetting, as am I,
Till one persons actions run two lives
I never found out
I never found out
Took me for granted, stole whats mine
Now youre thanking me for my time
Loves above her,
Hell is knowing one thing and doing another
I never found out
I never found out
Loves above her
Hell is knowing one thing and doing another
I never found out
I never found out

WH A T S T H E R E WA R D
Whats the reward for being brave all the time?
Whats the reward, do you always miss the point?
Even my Lolitas are growing up
You gave me life but you cant take it away
Weve found new ways to be disappointed
all day
Ridden with the burden of a confident man
Whats it like, that feeling, to lose some fans?
Coining ideas that have already been used
You only know how to romanticize old news
Couldnt last forever, my shadows passed
In this case the woman didnt love him back
Im finally in full blossom
Finally hit rock bottom
Let go of all you dont need
Couldnt last forvever
Not everythings what it seems
In this case, the woman didnt love him back

D O N T A S K F O R M O R E
Dont ask for more
I said Id stay
Be with me now
Lets see who we are Saturday
Dont ask for more
Dont waste what time we have
Pretending to be bad
You wanna hear the pledge
Thats when I turned to you and said,
Cant seem to drag you away from yourself,
At any moment we may come undone,
Even the world began
Cause someone pushed the other one,
Dont ask for more
Dont ask for more
You only hear what I say
When I say what you want
Put your claws away
I think Ive had enough today
Cant seem to drag you away from yourself
At any moment we may come undone
Even the world began cause someone pushed
the other one

T H E N I G H T T I M E
S T O P P E D B L E E D I N G
Wondering quietly is not good enough for me
Holding on to what we used to be
My lifes a mask for the vice in your soul
You cant stay forever is no way to go
The nighttime stopped bleeding
Corners repeating
With nowhere to go
She wants to end it all lying next to me
How many nights must I suffer quietly?
Blinded by someone whos disappointed so few
Howd I end up in the corner of you?
The nighttime stopped bleeding
Corners repeating
With nowhere to go
The nighttime stopped bleeding
Corners repeating
With nowhere to go

All songs written by ADAM GREEN & BINKI SHAPIRO

Adams songs: published by Average Cabbage Music (BMI), All Rights Administered by
BMG Rights Management (US) LLC. Used By Permission. All Rights Reserved 2012
Binkis songs: published by SONGS Music Publishing, LLC o/b/o Fatal Bagel Publishing (ASCAP),
Management (US) LLC. Used By Permission. All Rights Reserved 2012
Photography by LAUREN DUKOFF
Design by BINKI SHAPIRO & LARISSA COLLINS
Thanks to our friends, family, team, and everyone else who helped us make this happen.
Special thanks to TODD DAHLHOFF, LAUREN DUKOFF, YASMIN DOLATABADI & CARMEN PITEO.
Adam Green is managed by BARRY TAYLOR & JESSICA HERMAN WEITZ at MCT Management.
Binki Shapiro is managed by NADJA RANGEL at Monotone, Inc.
Booking:
ERIC DIMENSTEIN at Ground Control Touring (North America/South America)
STEVE ZAPP at ITB (Rest of the World)
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ADAM GREEN guitar
BINKI SHAPIRO synthesizer
JOSIAH STEINBRICK bass, guitar, synthesizer, omnichord, kalimba
JASON BOESEL drums and percussion
NOAH GEORGESON bass, guitar, piano
TODD DAHLHOFF cello
CARMEN PITEO, ALIA SHAWKAT, JOSH TILLMAN backing vocals
Produced by NOAH GEORGESON
Engineered by SAMUR KHOUJA
Mixed by NOAH GEORGESON
Mastered by GREG CALBI at Sterling Sound, NYC, NY
Recorded by NOAH GEORGESON at H.O.B. studio in Encino, CA