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"Inside/Outside" pokes fun at the ludicrous roles we play in our relationships. Sometimes even the most liberal of us embrace the cliché tasks we picked up, if not in finishing school, then in a hundred thousand movies, books, shows and plays. And yes... songs. And all of this domestic pageantry goes on in the context of a lives that are more and more distanced from the natural world. It’s perhaps the animal families scraping together an existence within the confines our suburban hell who are living more honestly than their pampered and entitled human counterparts.

We remember most warmly the music of Funkadelic - especially "Everybody's Going To Make It This Time" - a song that positively drips with irony. And dare we say it? Bonnie Raitt. Because, she just sings it like it is. (Not that she needs our help with publicity, but if you haven’t yet heard her latest record, Slipstream, find it!)

I’m sure you’ll enjoy, as you have many times before, the wondrous instrumental and engineering talents of our frequent collaborator Jon Evans. He’s the one playing bass, mando-guitar, guitar, dobro and hollering in the man-choir. Oh... and engineering the whole darn thing.

Welcome to the church of suburban marital malaise.

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I’ll bake an apple pie while you read a magazine.
You bring the firewood in.
I’ll sort the napkins from the tea towels.

You change the oil while i feed the animals.
The sour cream is spoiled, and you bought redundant bananas.

Outside the squirrels and robins and foxes and hares,
they run through the Kelly’s yard into the Price’s,
completely unaware
that inside are animals pampered, delivered and kept
from all of the trials of staying alive.
Fill ’er up again, I’ll drink to that.

I’ll hide the pornography under the mattress
while you find the baby on top of the fridge with a water gun.
You plump the show pillows, I’ll fill the propane
while you match the Tupperware tops to the bottoms.
It’s no use.

Outside the deer and the antelope, foxes and hares,
their home is a tangle of parcels divided by roads and attractions.
Outside it’s a chorus of sparrows, while inside it’s phones.
And the bird in the clock has stopped singing for us
since our little Jim broke all his bones.

How will we pass the time?
How will we pass the time together?

You post the pictures of family bliss
while I use the Clorox to clean up the paint and the piss.
I’ll step on the treadmill while you nuke the broccoli.
The hampster looked dead so I touched her.
She bared fangs and hissed at me.

Outside the squirrels and robins and foxes and hares,
they run through the Lambton’s yard into the Weiss’s
completely unaware
that inside are animals pampered, delivered and kept
from all of the trials of staying alive.
Fill ’er up again, I’ll drink to that.

credits

from Rabbit Rabbit Radio, Vol. 2 - Swallow Me Whole, released July 8, 2014
Matthias Bossi - drums, piano, voice
Carla Kihlstedt - voice
Jon Evans - bass, guitar, banjo, mandolin, voice
Sarah Swain, Stanley Swain, & Liam Hogg - additional voices

Music by Matthias Bossi & Carla Kihlstedt
Words by Carla Kihlstedt

Recorded and mixed by Jon Evans at Brick Hill, Orleans, MA

Published by Broca’s Fold, ASCAP, and Skinnah Music, BMI

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Rabbit Rabbit Radio Falmouth, Massachusetts

Rabbit Rabbit Radio is the song-spinning duo of Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi. Collectively, they are founding members of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tin Hat, 2 Foot Yard, Causing a Tiger, The Book of Knots, and Fred Frith’s Cosa Brava.

Drawing on their love of both art & folk song, industrial & improvised music and heart-wrenching balladry, their songs are raw, beautiful, sparse and rich. ... more

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