Color My Lips Hot Pink

by The Aluminum Group

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Produced by: Dave Trumfio (Kingsize Studios, Los Angeles), John & Frank Navin
Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by: Dave Trumfio
Horn & String Arrangements, Max Crawford & Paul Von Mertens
Additional recording by Rick Barnes

lyrics

Gertrude said paint a picture in the morning hours
Go paint another one in the afternoon
Drag queens, as a rule, are worse than children
Getting dressed for school—
Matinees? Times by two
All a mess, then fabulous

Sigmund fled, “something in German”*
Same decor appeared in old Hampstead—
Oriental rug as day bed
Lucien, it is known, will make you sit
Until the cows come home
Is a stickler when it comes to pose
A dental clamp that just won’t close

Here he sits for the first
He says, of the portraits
Smoking cigarette after cigarette
In his glory and fabulous

“Color my lips hot pink
Paint my eyes a million miles away
Paint my face in yellow, blue, and gray—
But color my lips hot pink
Color my lips hot pink”

*sorry, shop closed

credits

released April 8, 2022
John Navin, vocals
Frank Navin, keyboards & vocals
Billy Lowmans, bass
Andrew Trim, guitars
Amr Marcin Fahmy, piano
Larry Beers, drums & percussion
Dave Trumfio, ARP synthesizer & percussion
Jason Borger, keyboards, synthesizers, and piano
Max Crawford, trumpet, flügelhorn, Omnichord
Paul Von Mertens, flute, alto flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor sax, bari sax
Susan Voelz, violin
Alison Chesley, cello
Deb Stevenson, oboe, English horn
Marques Carroll, trumpet, flügelhorn
Art Davis, trumpet, flügelhorn
Matt Davis, trombone, sousaphone
Henry Carpenter, trombone
Peter Jirousek, French horn

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The Aluminum Group Detroit, Michigan

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John (@johnnykins1)
Frank (@charleyboat)
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The Album: The Aluminum Group
Release date: 2022
Produced by: Dave Trumfio (Kingsize Studios, Los Angeles), John & Frank Navin
Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by: Dave Trumfio
Horn & String Arrangements, Max Crawford & Paul Von Mertens ... more

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