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1.
Fading Little Suns 03:57
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I’m at the ballot box I’m thinking of you at the ballot box I hope you think of me too when you vote hard left just like I would do once I was a light in your life and you were a fire in mine Now we’re fading little suns in a sky of closer ones but I’ll always shine a little for you I’m in the waiting room I’m thinking of you in the waiting room I hope you think of me too when you feel doomed the way I always do once I was a light in your life and you were a fire in mine Now we’re fading little suns in a sky of closer ones but I’ll always shine a little for you nobody wants to be replaced, not all the way that’s why I left bobby pins in your room that’s why you call me the same names you used to holding on even barely will wear you out eventually I’m at the Cactus Club I’m thinking of you at the Cactus Club I hope you think of me too when you cry at the show at the same songs I do once I was a light in your life and you were a fire in mine Now we’re fading little suns in a sky of closer ones but I’ll always shine a little for you fading little suns in a sky of bigger ones will you always shine a little for me too? nobody wants to be replaced, not all the way
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PDA Now 03:37
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I got tired of being so easy kinda bored of my privacy with the sun on my skin sand stuck on everything I got tired of having a level head mulling days over for hours in bed with the moon in your hair your hands wrapped around your beer I’m gonna be what I be, baby I’m gonna be who I be, baby I’m into PDA now I’ll kiss your teeth in a crowd and when our friends are around they feel weird but I don’t know how to stop I’m so tired of sleeping without dreams nights so quiet you can’t hear anything so in daylight at the pier I shake it and I don’t care I’m gonna be what I be, baby I’m gonna be who I be, baby tie my shoes spit in mouth tidy my nightstand bite my fingers nickname my pets burn my toast check on my freckles buy me candy pierce my ears tell me what I taste like tell me I’m right I’m into PDA now I’ll kiss your teeth in a crowd and when our friends are around they feel weird but I don’t know how to stop touching you (touching you) touching you (touching you) touching you (touching you) (touching you)
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Bad Math 04:13
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lost like a ring in the cushions lost like a trauma from my mind I’ll just make it disappear like a murphy bed you’ll never see where it went you’ll never see where she slept one lighthouse blinks white one blinks green it means something to the ships coming in it means something to somebody I feel like a million bucks in the red I bet on her, I made the wrong bet I feel a million bucks in the red I should have checked my work ‘cause she was bad math bad math bad math bad math bad math bad math bad math practice madness in the mirror til it’s perfect, so perfect that it walks like Pneumonia out of the room if I didn’t go to that bar for that show or left early and went home or stepped out for some fresh air would I have been spared her fingers through my hair how very scared I was in her care I feel like a million bucks in the red I bet on her, I made the wrong bet I feel a million bucks in the red I should have checked my work ‘cause she was bad math bad math bad math bad math bad math bad math bad math once you blow air into a lilo it’ll only come out if you bite down and in regards to my heart if we’re speaking of my love I won’t say she stole it but she didn’t not take it from me I won’t say she stole it but she didn’t not take it from me she just made it disappear ‘cause she was bad math bad math bad math ‘cause she was bad math bad math didn’t add up bad math bad math to true love bad math ‘cause she was bad math bad math thought I had it bad math bad math didn’t have it bad math ‘cause she was bad math bad math do I miss it? bad math bad math yeah, I miss it? bad math
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Tamagotchi 03:32
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forcing my hand on instagram to try to change the algorithm in case anyone finds my phone after I’ve gone cold I want the kids to think I ruled my exes to think I was cool and then my vision gets real tunnel I start to lose it over this one thought what if I’m just somebody’s Tamagotchi what if you're just a plot point and no matter how much I love you you’re not anything at all but code in the sci-fi book I’m reading there’s a planet full of beings who can’t lie and I won’t I don’t really know who I am without scheming withholding my feelings and then my vision gets real tunnel I start to lose it over this one thought what if I’m just somebody’s Tamagotchi what if this pain's a plot point and the days I feel so lonely aren’t longer than any other they’re just code well aren’t you a sight for short circuits? fixing my crossed wires when I get like this when I’m overwhelmed by endlessness what if one shot is all you really get or what if what if I’m just somebody’s Tamagotchi what if summer’s just a plot point and as red as my skin gets it doesn’t burn at all it’s just code
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Wore Off 03:24
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I met you in a room full of white, bright apples bites taken out of every one I knew I was doomed when I heard your headphones playing that new Charli song now what? should I meet your mom? now what? co-parent your dog? I can really feel it changing my whole life really changing I met you in a room full of hot neon signs flies buzzing round every one I knew I was screwed ‘cause it made my heart hurt that you had nail polish on now what? Should we buy a home? now what? I’ll take on your loans? I can really feel it changing my whole life really changing and then the whiskey wore off and everything came down I know I said we should make out but I just want to be alone at my house I left you in a room full of cardboard boxes fragile written on every one I knew we were doomed when you called me boring then just sat on your phone now what? we divide our friends? now what? cancel all our plans? i thought that my life was changing my whole life really changing and then the magic wore off and the curtain came down and then the champagne wore off and then the year came down and every crush I’ve had is gone I can really feel it changing my whole life really changing I can really feel it changing my whole life really changing and I can’t wait to be alone can’t wait to be alone can’t wait to be alone
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It Does Help 04:15
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just another girl with a couple tattoos lying in the sun as they fade to blue while a couple guys who work for the city slow the truck and rubberneck my body a simple thing complicates in time I don’t know how it helps but it does help to know that we are so small that nothing matters at all I don’t know how it helps but it does help to know that I will change my mind time after time after time acting on impulse at the vending machine and on the forked river trail while my coastal friends, they are sinking my heartland friends can’t stop drinking a simple thing complicates in time I don’t know how it helps but it does help to know that we are so small that nothing matters at all I don’t know how it helps but it does help to know that I will change my mind time after time after time it’s so late, only the internet is open and I hate my feelings and I miss my mom and the way she picked lilacs in the spring I miss never having a phone on me and loving halloween I miss happening to things and not them happening to me but it’s nice to think one day I won’t miss anything that I’ll join all of my lost parts in the wild, wide empty dark I don’t know how it helps but it does help to know that we are so small that nothing matters at all I don’t know how it helps but it does help to know that I will change my mind time after time after time
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Stunts 03:17
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it’s a one hundred horse town even if all of them are cops you’d think I could find one person to fill my emptying cup or a couple friends to call when it’s as late as it gets and I need someone to tell me to get a grip I’m a bad actor but I do my own stunts and it's all method all the time from alarm to melatonin, I’m trying from light to night, I’m asking who are we? wrong answers only making elaborate wishes on ordinary things putting faith in fountains shining with copper currencies in small snapping bones small flames easily extinguished it’s much safer than believing in anything big I’m a bad actor but I do my own stunts and it's all method all the time from alarm to melatonin, I’m trying from light to night, I’m asking who are we? wrong answers only in the winter of 2000 the computers kept on at my parent’s new year’s party I let someone call me pretty maybe that was the beginning of the end being introduced to my reflection they say lie in the bed you made live with the bets you made even if you made them at 12 or didn’t make them yourself I’m always white lying thinking I’m getting away with it making you apologize for things you did in my head making up scenarios in which I’m dying to death and you’re at my gravestone your cheeks wet and red I’m a bad actor but I do my own stunts and it's all method all the time from alarm to melatonin, I’m trying from light to night, I’m asking who are we? ask Jeeves or somebody ask a priest, tax-free ask goddamn Mercury just don’t ask me
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All 5 03:45
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I say it easier than the blink of an eye at the end of a staring contest in the desert on a windy day I love you with all five I love you all the time some of our friends stayed married that could be you and me I love you teeth and tongue I love you til we lose the sun or til NASA finds another one and another one I say it louder than the dog outside the shop when their owner gets coffee he’ll be right back, that’s what they all say I love you with all five I love you all the time some of our friends stayed married that could be you and me I love you teeth and tongue I love you til we lose the sun or til NASA finds another one and another one I don’t know how to tell you that animal collective makes me anxious I don’t know how to tell you that the bird you said was a sparrow wasn’t I don’t know how to tell you that these eggs are not done I don’t know how to tell you that your friends are not fun because you are so precious to me I only want to tell you good things you are so special to me good things, good things I love you with all five I love you all the time some of our friends stayed married that could be you and me I love you teeth and tongue I love you til we lose the sun or til NASA finds another one and another one
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Brain a Break 03:48
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break my body to give my brain a break my body to give my brain a break my body to give my brain a break running til my thoughts just stop running til my thoughts just stop running my tv friends taught me how to die cool how to cry cool and how to feel like I’m living when I’m just in bed some days everyone I love is 2D and scripted it’s okay, long as I don’t think it to death break my body to give my brain a break my body to give my brain a break my body to give my brain a break running til my thoughts just stop running til my thoughts just stop running why do I find myself in middle night in the fridge light at the tail end of a walking sleep where I've lost my head thinking maybe string cheese would erase what my dreams meant it’s okay, long as I don’t wake in his bed break my body to give my brain a break my body to give my brain a break my body to give my brain a break running til my thoughts just stop running til my thoughts just stop running
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Glue 03:41
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he looked just like you in that blue screen glow listless but still cool dead but alive too when I imagined how we’d play this game didn’t think you’d win not by this margin everything I do I do for you everything you do you do for you oh god, you’re rubber oh god, I’m glue oh god, you’re rubber oh god, I’m glue if I could just get some money saved up I’d move to the sea where warmth comes easy here, in the rust belt i’m your changed mind i’m your left signal you’re turning right though everything I do I do for you everything you do you do for you oh god, I’m glue oh god, you’re rubber oh god, I’m glue i wish you’d untell me what you told me wish you’d unhand your handle on me and stop saving your ADHD conveniently just for me like dreams of friends who no longer exist you make little visits you’re always in transit loving me for a few minutes I’m the kettle you left to cry on it’s own oh god, you’re rubber oh god, I’m glue oh god, you’re rubber oh god, I’m glue
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Another Way Home 03:04
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I’m the shamed fool in the adage once, twice, you really had me non-refundable dream blind belief here I go to take it out on other people it’s not the kind of sadness that sells not the kind of love that swells not a blue that sparkles, tale that tells but I’m done being the practice run I thought we were leaving together but it’s cool it’s cool it’s cool I’ll find another way home it’s cool it’s cool l can find another way home cloud 6 is high as I ever get write it down to get through it but finally I’m not crying over you I’m crying just generally I thought we were leaving together but it’s cool it’s cool it’s cool I’ll find another way home it’s cool it’s cool l can find another way home perforated, you tore from me so easily dotted lines round the heart on my sleeve instructions right there for the cutting that the wind knocked me over so easily says more about the strength of the breeze than it does about the weakness of me I thought we were leaving together but it’s cool it’s cool it’s cool I’ll find another way home it’s cool it’s cool l can find another way home I can find another way home I can find another way home I can find another way home I can do this on my own I can do this on my own
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I'll Stay 03:25
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days like today, I say I’ll stay, I’ll stick around ‘cause heaven’s a hell I wouldn’t wish on anyone floating around missing everyone? no, I’ll stay, I’ll stick around for now I wear brass knuckles to bed fight off the demons in your head that come for you when you sleep no one should be afraid to dream not you, especially days like today, I say I’ll stay, I’ll stick around ‘cause heaven’s a hell I wouldn’t wish on anyone floating around missing everyone? no, I’ll stay, I’ll stick around for now You bring knives to the sticks fight off the hicks at the Kwik Trip with pursed lips and elevator eyes no one should be afraid at pump 5 not me, not this time dying is a way out dying is a way out but loving is a way out too loving is a way out too dying is a way out dying is a way out but loving is a way out too loving is a way out too A little bit of violence becomes us A little chaos calls to us it’s really sweet all the people you’d kill for me days like today, I say I’ll stay, I’ll stick around for now

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sure thing’s debut album took inspiration from all the main pop girlies (you know who you are…I love you), the contemporary cool guy producers (James Blake, Justin Vernon, George Daniel), WHY?, and David Bazan. Bass-heavy with melodic and percussive synths and acoustic flourishes, sure thing shoots for pop and lands among indie pop.

Always writing to a punchline and centering the mundane, O’Brien’s songs were created for the kids not the critics. Strupp is the band’s primary musician (guitars, keys, drums) and producer, his instincts rooted in traditional singer-songwriter music. Because O’Brien is not a trained musician, Strupp was challenged with arranging and elevating the songs to be bigger and more interesting than they could have been without collaboration. The record came together slowly, fueled by belief in one another, lofty ambition, a dedication to serving songs not egos, and a lot of patience.

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released March 22, 2024

Written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by sure thing
Mastered by Andrew Jambura at Silver City Studios

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sure thing Milwaukee, Wisconsin

sure thing is Milwaukee’s Casey O’Brien (Cinnaminiatures) and Stephen Strupp (solo, Sat. Nite Duets, Soda Road). Songs for sure thing’s self-titled debut were written and recorded between late 2019 and 2023.

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