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from Turn to the Left by The Sinister Turns

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Inspired by a pin that was inspired by Larry Summers. Also, my mom. Aww.

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Eric Demafeliz read Crichton by the second grade and I skimmed the Langoliers while the other seven-year-olds played hop scotch, and dolls, and jump rope skip but Peter and I would duel in Battleship, and though long division wasn't hip it let me carry away on a guilt trip. Whoa!

Instead of drawing with the crayons, I'd organize them by shade or hue or alphabetically or by size, and sleep never came easily when I closed my eyes: I could see and feel the needles going into my thighs. Whoa!

I tested with the boys, but in a fit of gender wrath, though I read just as well, she said I couldn't, so she wouldn't let me do the math. My mom, enraged, she screamed and kicked 'cause the bias always made her sick, and my next two teachers were handpicked, and though neither one was very strict,

If I didn't do the work it's not 'cause I didn't try. It's 'cause if the sentence wasn't perfect, I'd want to die. So I'd retreat back to my room and read Christopher Pike, and with all that murder, how could I not threaten my life? Whoa!

We could go far if you'd do us a favor and raise the bar. Otherwise, we scrutinize ourselves and what we earn. Whether letters and numbers, or weapons and lovers, we'll learn.

Left back in Somerville is the walking calculator fame. Our time abandoned us, and our innocence it did the same, and what remains are nervous tics like coping with arithmetic, but we are more than high strung chicks: We just gotta learn what makes us tick! Whoa!

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from Turn to the Left, released November 20, 2006

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The Sinister Turns are a four-piece independent pop-rock band based out of Cambridge, Massachusetts, playing richly-orchestrated piano-driven pop influenced by Okkervil River, Mirah, the Organ, and Salvador Dali sliced eyes.

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