Bella's Bartok

“Aching Bones” by Bella’s Bartok

[High-energy alternative rock music]

Don’t be afraid to ask for more
He’s not around here like before
Pushing or pull if it feels right
I’m not gunning for this fight

If you’re walking in my shoes
Just be prepared I sometimes lose
As you follow in my steps
Keep in mind these words I said

One for the road
We’ll sleep when we’re dead
You’re never alone
When lost with your friends

Lying beside you
Or sleepless in bed
How will you know
If I leave it unsaid?

Ooh, it’s just how it goes
Ooh, this life that we chose
Oh, so on with the show

[High-energy guitar and synthesizer music]

All my life I’ve cared too much
Now you’re here it’s just enough
Please don’t think too long because
I find it calm, now lost in love

Keep it safe and keep in touch
I’m not scared though times are tough
All that is and all that was
It gives me hope it gives me pause

One for the road
We’ll sleep when we’re dead
You’re never alone
When lost with your friends

Lying beside you
Or sleepless in bed
How will you know
If I leave it unsaid?

[Electric guitar solo]

Ooh
Ooh

One for the road
We’ll sleep when we’re dead
You’re never alone
When lost with your friends

Lying beside you
Or sleepless in bed
How will you know
If I leave it unsaid?

Ooh, it’s just how it goes
Ooh, this life that we chose
Oh, so on with the show

[Gentle electric piano music]

[Audience applauding and cheering]

Asher Putnam: We are Bella’s Bartok. We’re on the weirder end of things, and still, people just embrace us. You can, like, see kind of, like, you know, 40-year-old dads being like, “Yeah, this is great!” To, like, young, like, queer punks just, like, going just as hard. And then, like, kids, their parents, their grandparents bouncing around, singing along. It’s super cool. You don’t really get that everywhere.

“Love in the Time of Corona” by Bella’s Bartok

‘Cause I’ve been working all day long
I’ve done some right, I’ve done some wrong
I’m a man outside of my means
I’m living large, I’m not living lean

So come on, let me in
I’ve got a dose of a little sin

Ooh
Ooh

Because I’m working hard, I’m making minimum wage
Drinking just to pass those dreary old days
I’m working hard, I’m making minimum wage
Drinking just to pass those dreary old days

I’m by myself, I sleep all day
When there’s bills and bills to pay
I come off a little vain
So I blame it on the damned plague

So turn it up before we turn in
Ah chalk it up to another win

Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh

‘Cause I’m working hard, I’m making minimum wage
Drinking just to pass those dreary old days
I’m working hard, I’m making minimum wage
Drinking just to pass those dreary old days

It’s not enough, it’s not enough
It’s not enough to live without you
It’s not enough, it’s not enough
It’s not enough to live without you

No, it’s not enough, it’s not enough
It’s not enough to live without you
It’s not enough, it’s not enough
It’s not enough to live without you

Woah

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[Rapid guitar strumming]

[Audience applauding and cheering]

Julia Posin: Thank you!

“Go Wilde” by Bella’s Bartok

[Gentle electric organ music]

Picture this in a Victorian house
All our clothes are strewn about
Art and poetry are all I need
A life with you, a flower to seed

Must I whisper?
Can’t I shout?
Imagine us

[High-energy accordion and guitar music]

When I first glimpsed your lovely face
How I craved your warm embrace
Draconian laws are such a drag
All this fuss over a measly shag?

To the mirth of many or a young lord’s family
Your printed words are most uncanny
Imagine us in a Victorian house
Lying naked upon your couch

All my days are as wild as my nights
Stars on high, heart fires alight
All my days are as wild as my nights
Hopes and dreams are taking flight

Picture this in a Victorian house

[High-energy accordion and guitar music]

A game of cards
Or cat and mouse [Julia meows]
Renew your gaze, forget your doubts
A life with you in this life unknown

With open eyes my heart has flown
If from me you’ve learned one thing
It’s that lust like love forever sings

Oh!

In my drawers
In the drawing room
On my paws
In the parlor room

By the sea
In a shanty
Make you wail
Like a banshee

In the garden
During tea time
Dolled up like a French mime
I can’t strike you from my mind!

All my days are as wild as my nights
Stars on high, heart fires alight
All my days are as wild as my nights
Hopes and dreams are taking flight

[High-energy accordion and guitar music]

Can you imagine us!
Imagine us!
Imagine us!
Imagine us!

Imagine us so wild and free
Now they call it sodomy

[Audience applauding and cheering]

Speaker: Thank you so very much. That is one of two PG-13 songs, okay? We’re gonna be good, it’s okay.