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No More Invitations

by Jennifer Haase

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Steve Lawson The title track is as good a song as you'll hear all year. The rest of the album isn't far behind. Lovely album, full of care and attention. Favorite track: No More Invitations.
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1.
Heard you've got a chip that's the size of your head Sittin' on your neck speaking for you instead All the clucking hens at your Aunt's house for tea Say you've lost some friends in your family tree There'll be no more invitations There'll be no more invitations Heard you've got a thing for someone else's man Word is you've been seen leaving notes on his van All the busy bees at the watering hole Say they'd like to see that big chip of yours roll There'll be no more invitations There'll be no more invitations What's the matter, baby? Don't like sleeping in the bed you made? Now, baby, better save some cake for your birthday Can't have it all, can't get your way How dare you be a girl with much to say Heard you tend to dress so outrageous it's sad Seems you're the distress on the face of your dad Rumors going 'round you've been dropped from the list Girl, give up the crown 'cause you cease to exist There'll be no more invitations There'll be no more invitations
2.
Behind my eyes I sleep then rise into a world Where we escape from Tao that breaks from loveless cures To where our soul mates aren't the bad guys And a scandal's not a franchise and you don't have to be alone in this at all, 'cause... CHORUS #1: I save you, you save me In my rescue dreams I save you, you save me In my rescue dreams I save you, the whole world too in my rescue dreams Recovery it ain't no big top, feel good show So come with me down deeper than hurt thinks to go Where you're not frozen by the maybes and no one messes with our babies and you don't have to be alone in this at all CHORUS #2: I save you, you save me in my rescue dreams I save you, you save me in my rescue dreams I save you, your children too in my rescue dreams They'll hit you from every vulnerable side Just wound you enough to still take you alive We're set up to crash, but we'll kick in the glass 'til it gives then sleep soundly again through the night CHORUS #1 I will save you I will save you
3.
She stuck out her thumb ticket for one, anywhere numb to curl up and hide Too many wrongs pitiful songs and carriages on the Upper West Side Oneonta This girl at your altar Please hold her tonight Seems she'd forgotten there is no God when praying for what men cannot become So she wished them all well lifted the veil, tucked in her tail and followed you home Oneonta This girl at your altar Please hold her tonight Wallowing deep in the why Messes with every goodbye Unsteady she goes, leaping slick river stones Toward the other side His hands leave her hips as the heaviness of memory drips like rain from her hair Maybe she knows forgiveness is slow but somebody show her how to get there Oneonta This girl at your altar Please hold her Please hold her Please hold her Please hold her Tonight
4.
I've got a new pink sweater and I look good Gonna earn some whistles up in your hood Gonna stroll on by like I don't mind that you don't love me better In my new pink sweater Got the latest gadget and it's a scream Got all new numbers locked in the screen If I don't hear a thing when you ring-a-ling Maybe I'll catch you later In my new pink sweater CHORUS: Honey you take care in your comfortable chair with my old love letters I'm bold like a dare in my ready-to-wear winkin' at your brothers maybe what this love needs to hold it together is a new pink sweater I've got a new position on what's at stake This old dog sleepin' he needs a shake I'm makin' a move That’s been clinically proved to waken more than one gender in my new pink sweater CHORUS Is a new pink sweater Oh, don't I look good to you In my new pink sweater
5.
You know you shake me up C'mon let's blow this soda can Beautiful man Bring on the sugar scrub Let's sail this tub 'til we hit land Beautiful man CHORUS: I want to say everything to you I want to play like people in love do I want to stay on your list of earth-shaking plans... stay the girl awake between your hands Stay beautiful man One bite of sweet apple Then we'll succumb to temptation Beautiful Man Won't be no picnic though without our fingers in the jam Beautiful Man CHORUS C'mon let's recite this sonnet, Baby Make a little love Shakespearean Beautiful Man 'Cause you know you spin my planet when we conjugate in this poetry slam Beautiful Man CHORUS ...keep you awake between my hands Stay beautiful man
6.
How I wish you were real Instead of just someone I feel Through transference Through my dress the curve of you only a guess From the Pacific to Atlantic from that soft voice you use with me I have caught myself a Cancer that I cannot touch or see 3,000 Miles 3,000 Miles You say love, I say wait There's just too much interstate between here and where we'd go if you were someone I could know From the Pacific to Atlantic from that soft voice you use with me I have caught myself a Cancer that I cannot touch or see 3,000 Miles 3,000 Miles Oh, I can't shake you off I can't let go, but I can't hang on No, I can't belong to your day I don't know how to be anyone to you this way From the Pacific to Atlantic from that soft voice you use with me I have caught myself a Cancer that I cannot touch or see 3,000 Miles 3,000 Miles 3,000 Miles 3,000 Miles
7.
This Dragon 03:55
It's the sixteenth and I'm thinking that I'm sure that I've forgotten someone's turning a year older or the milk will soon be rotten Nothing's scribbled in my datebook but a notice to reorder Though the very thing I'm out of is the thing I don't remember CHORUS: Is that my ball in your backyard? Twenty years ago I left this dragon standing guard but nothing that I am has stayed the same I guess I thought that dragons could be tamed There's a string around my finger Several notes under a magnet A message light is blinking in the dark so I can find it Oh, I used to love to read the universe and its intentions but the older that I get the more it hurts to pay attention CHORUS He ate the calendars and clocks and slept right through the clatter of someone picking all the locks on everything that matters CHORUS
8.
Well, I listened to the records That you slid under my door And they wrecked me so completely I can’t listen anymore To the worried way you warn me As you slowly stroke my hair Don’t do this, dear It isn’t fair So I hole up in the corners With my truth sweetly concealed When they hug me at the picnics No imbalance is revealed I’m the pretty paper doll That will impress when they arrive But here inside I’m still alive CHORUS: I’m sorry, it’s your party But both of us will shatter If I am why you start to cry And although I can’t be your candy I’ll sugarcoat my story And repress the reasons why Because I’m all out of try You’re go good at looking busy When I try to catch your eye There’s an edge to all things happy So we numb it in a lie While the His and Hers who own us Sun from porcelain to brown Can’t let them know I’ve let you down CHORUS Try a little harder. Make it easy on me, Dear Try and understand I don’t know where to put this fear Try the familiar so I don’t have to explain Please try for me ‘cause I will never have your chance to try again Because I’m all out of try Because I’m all out of try
9.
Love him as the record spins Trace his grooves and scratches when Swaying to the sound of him Love him as the vinyl pops From the old turntable box Close now ‘til his static stops CHORUS: Slowly ‘round with reverie Just he for you and you for he As all the world goes digital Let the record needle crawl Love him as the old songs play Listen the old-fashioned way To what the heart of man can say 2nd CHORUS: Slowly ‘round with reverie Just he for you and you for he As all the world goes digital Love him, love him skips and all Love him as the record spins
10.
Chapter You 04:51
Page one, Chapter You The damsel meets the suave gumshoe but he's the one stuck in the tower losing his faith by the hour Will the damsel risk rescue Are you someone she could get to... Mmmmm Scene two, Chapter You Our heroine with much to lose She knows she's gonna make the climb One craving for you at a time But is it worth the climb at all Not every tower's meant to fall... Mmmmm CHORUS #1: I can look down without losing my balance but you're so tightly wound you can't yet take a chance and when this chapter's closed where does your damsel go Same tale, Chapter You Cut to where our stuck gumshoe is pacing floors, is waiting for some messenger to shake his core but when the damsel reaches you will you be ready, reaching too... Mmmmm CHORUS #2: I can look down without losing my balance but you're so tightly wound you can't yet take a chance and are we ready for new negotiations If paper covers stone do damsels leave alone CHORUS #3: I can look down without losing my balance but you're so tightly wound you can't yet take a chance and are we ready for new negotiations or should last pages read "Hello, congratulations. You set your gumshoe free. Turn now to Chapter Me." Set your gumshoe free Turn now to Chapter Me
11.
May peace and hope be with you My house on the hill I believe in the moon at your window and he follows me still There is someone new in your garden A new initial on your gate Will you hold and keep them in the rooms where we once stayed You can't put a price on a memory but given a chance I'd pay To search through your cupboards and closets for something of us that's been saved So show them the graves by the pasture and the silhouette of Christ on the door but teach them that faith and forgiveness are what a home is for Show them how to survive bring the love in this house back to life Heal this place where a family stopped trying Oh, erase the sounds of daughters crying May peace and hope be with you My house on the hill I believe in the moon at your window and he follows me still

about

Jennifer Haase (rhymes with "classy") is a Nebraska-born, New York-transplanted singer/songwriter with a Jewel-Meets-Mary Chapin Carpenter folk-pop sound.

NO MORE INVITATIONS, Haase’s sophomore album release, is produced by multi-instrumentalist Mike Leslie (Joan Osborne, Rufus Wainwright), engineered/mixed & mastered by Emmy-nominated Robert L. Smith (GLEE, Ricki Lee Jones, Harry Connick, Jr.) and features special guest vocals from Rosanne Cash (on “Oneonta”) and Stephen Kellogg (on “3,000 Miles”).

A five year DIY journey from start to finish, a handful of the songs from NO MORE INVITATIONS wrote themselves along the way. A combo of sassy and sentimental, full and bare production, NO MORE INVITATIONS has a little bit of love (“As the Record Spins”), rejection (“No More Invitations”), lust (“Beautiful Man”) and fashion-minded playfulness (“New Pink Sweater”).

NO MORE INVITATIONS was funded in part with generous donations from fans, which made working with an amazing NYC musical team possible. Record producer Mike Leslie said of Haase’s album fundraiser success “You are truly a force, missy."

Haase has played legendary clubs The Bitter End in NYC and The Troubadour in London UK.

“Jennifer Haase is a unique and gifted songwriter with the voice of an angel. I highly recommend her.” – Rosanne Cash

“This album is somewhere between Julie Miller and Aimee Mann…” – NoDepression.com

"The first time I heard Jennifer Haase sing, I got chills. She has an aching sincerity that you just cannot manufacture or cultivate. I think it stems from how deeply she throws herself into her songs and as a listener you are forced to feel it all with her and that of course is the good stuff." --Stephen Kellogg

"Jennifer is someone you could listen to for hours and beg for more when she's done. Highly Recommended." --Songwriter's Monthly Magazine

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released July 20, 2011

Produced by Mike Leslie
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Robert L. Smith
(For more recording credits, please inquire about purchasing the physical CD package - thanks!)

Special Guest Vocals from:

Rosanne Cash
Stephen Kellogg
Gretchen Witt
Patty Ocfemia

CD design by Patti Witten

Dolls photo from A. Chandler

"Swimming Mermaid" painting from Laura Nothern

All songs written by Jennifer Haase

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New York singer/songwriter with a Jewel Meets Mary Chapin Carpenter songwriting style. "No More Invitations" features guest vocals from Rosanne Cash and Stephen Kellogg.

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