Chris Garneau

Producer: Duncan Sheik

Always so still, I never will be like you
And you never will strike me better

It's always so clear, you never really hear at all
And I fear that you won't get better

As when you're not being nice
You're not nice, you're not nice
You're not nice
I'd rather leave you alone
I'm gonna leave you alone

You've been quiet for so long
Something was wrong
You never said a word
So I know that you won't get better

That's your fifth drink
Don't you think that's a lot?
Considering we've only been here for a little while now
Oh, oh, oh

When you're not being nice
You're not nice, you're not nice
You're not nice
I'd rather leave you alone
I'm gonna leave you alone

You're always so still
I never will
Be like you
And you never will strike me better at all

Sometimes you're nice
But when you're not nice, you're not nice
You're not nice
I'd rather leave you alone
I'm gonna leave you alone

That's all

Chris Garneau entered the New York music scene in 2006 with his debut album Music for Tourists, first released on Absolutely Kosher Records. He was brought to the label by Jamie Stewart and Caralee McElroy of Xiu Xiu. The album was later released in Europe and Asia. Vincent Moon shot Garneau in his Take-Away Show series which earned the singer-songwriter worldwide visibility, and special attention in France where the session was shot.

Garneau later released C-Sides EP (2007), El Radio LP (2009), and Winter Games LP (2013) on various labels in North America, Europe, China, Japan, South Korea, and Brazil — markets where he has toured extensively and shared the stage with Xiu Xiu, Jose Gonzalez, Keren Ann, My Brightest Diamond, Joan as Policewoman, Camera Obscura, among many others. Garneau opened for Charlotte Gainsbourg at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2010.

He has also landed over 30 synch placements for film, television, and advertising (including Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, Dream Corp LLC, and others). His cover of Elliott Smith’s ‘Between the Bars’ was featured in Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Skin I Live In’.

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