Chris Garneau

Producer: Duncan Sheik

Air-conditioning is cold
Summer's hot and love is old
I wish I was smaller
A little creepy crawler

There's lovers' sin in this town
Lovers cannot lay down
The summer's hot as hell here you know
If we think we can drink now
We won't stop 'cause we don't know how
It's cold, but we love
How it feels so right

I sweat it all out, you sweat a lot too
We hurt the same, the same black and blue
Oh, I wanna catch my death of cold
Oh, 'cause I'm scared I'm growing old
Oh, don't return the love I gave
Oh, you're still my favorite

Troubles win in this town
Troubles don't turn upside down
They shit on the last bit of fun

There's sin all around
Lovers cannot lay down
And the winter wears and tears
Our bones

There's a man in this town
He's shooting us down
He thinks he's a big man but he doesn't know anything about us or anything at all

At night he lies awake
And his heart aches
'cause it's cold
He sweats it out all the night through
Then he throws up all over me and you

Oh, I wanna catch my death of cold
Oh, 'cause I'm scared of growing old
Oh, don't return the love I gave you
Oh, you're still my favorite

Air conditioning is cold
Summer's hot and love is old
I wish I was even smaller
A little creepy crawler

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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