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Penny Machine

from HOUSWIFE by Kela Parker

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I won $60 on the penny slots at a casino on the Oregon Coast. It was winter, and one of those sad, gray trips where you’re at the beach with friends but mostly consumed by your inner romantic agonies. This is a song about longing, and then getting—but getting something you weren’t expecting, and trying to enjoy it.

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PENNY MACHINE


I put my chips in, I watched it spin
Right to your door
Could you be the One and all that
I am asking for

The rabbit he races, the lion he waits

I spent all my pennies on you, waiting
I spent all my pennies on you, shameless

But there were times when I would win
And all the colors whirled to land on my fortune

I want to want what’s real in you
Beneath the picture I made, under the proof
Ain’t that something, wouldn’t you say

I spent all my pennies on you, waiting
I spent all my pennies on you, shameless

But there were times when it would shift
And all the losses turned to wins on my token

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from HOUSWIFE, released October 10, 2011

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Kela Parker Los Angeles, California

"A prepossessing voice" (A&R Factory).

No one sounds quite like Kela Parker. The Los Angeles- based, Portland, Oregon-bred singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist pushes the edges of pop forms with her singular mystic prairie rock, “like folk music, but from a country you’ve never heard of before.” (Destination: Universe!). ... more

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