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On her full length album, DIORAMA, Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Hailey Wojcik (VOY-chek) explores the many meanings of that word. Part theatre, part museum exhibit, each song is a musically unique and detailed glimpse at a life. The album was produced by Dan Romer
(Ingrid Michaelson, Jenny Owen Youngs) and makes use of a wide range of instrumentation, from Indian banjo to mellotron to recorded samples of animal noises, as well as strumstick, horns, ukulele and guitars.
While attending college in Michigan, Wojcik studied creative writing, a background that is evidenced in her songwriting. She identifies with literary protagonists of Kafka and Salinger in "Samsa Morning" and "Holden Caulfield," respectively.
The closing song on the album, "Model Aeroplane," is a duet she cowrote with legendary hardcore punk vocalist and Touch and Go Records founder, Tesco Vee of the Meatmen. The unlikely pair met while neighbors in Michigan, and are currently working on further
collaborations.
Wojcik is the child of zookeepers, an experience she recounts in, "Raised in a Zoo.”
"Amnesia," a circus‐y song consisting of only ukulele, vocals and hand percussion, deals with the point in a relationship where the best option seems to be taking a blunt object to one another's craniums to erase the memories of things that have been said, and start over.
"Anglerfish" is a song for jilted lovers everywhere ‐ its upbeat melody belies tongue‐in‐cheek bitter lyrics such as "I hope he gives you syphilis and you don't notice it until it creeps into your brain. Then, which one of us would be insane?"
Imaginary Friends with Benefits
Hailey Wojcik Lyrics
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And it's sucking the life of me like Dracula
Morning you were chorus and verse
And I'm warning you it only gets worse
Worse
Prechorus
I couldn't sweeten this deal if I slid down your chimney with it
Chorus
So be my best imaginary
Very very best imaginary
Be my best imaginary friend
With benefits
This is why they shouldn't let me out
This is why you wouldn't let me in no
I gave my usual act of contrition
And you wouldn't let me pass go
You wouldn't let me pass go
Repeat prechorus + chorus
There's a price tag on everything about me
And you can bet it's going cheap
You can bet you can have
The shirt off my back
The shirt off my back
You can have what's underneath
Repeat chorus
I couldn't sweeten this deal
I couldn't sweeten this deal
I couldn't sweeten this deal if I slid down your chimney with it
Hailey Wojcik's song "Imaginary Friends with Benefits" is a humorous take on the subject of unrequited love. The main character in the song has fallen for someone who doesn't seem to notice her, and she's left clinging to his perfume sample like a talisman. The reference to a scapular, a type of religious necklace, suggests that she's treating the perfume as a symbol of her faith in the possibility of their relationship. However, the perfume seems to be draining her energy rather than giving her strength, like a vampire sucking blood. The notion of the morning as "chorus and verse" implies that the object of her affection is singing a song for her every day, but the warning that "it only gets worse" suggests that she's expecting too much from him, and she'll only be disappointed.
Line by Line Meaning
I'm wearing your perfume sample like a scapular
I'm carrying your scent on me like a religious symbol, and it's consuming me like a vampire.
Morning you were chorus and verse
You were the soundtrack of my morning, every melody and every word.
And I'm warning you it only gets worse
I'm cautioning you that this situation can only escalate and become more intense.
I couldn't sweeten this deal if I slid down your chimney with it
This proposition is already as enticing as it can be. Even if I tried to make it better, it wouldn't make a difference.
If I seem off you can just turn me on and in time I swear you'll ignore it
If I appear unstable, you can simply activate my passion, and eventually, you'll become insensitive to it.
So be my best imaginary
Be my ideal, perfect, but purely fictional, companion.
Very very best imaginary
Emphasizing the need for perfection in this imaginary relationship.
Be my best imaginary friend
Be the imaginary accomplice who is always there when I need someone.
With benefits
With some physical intimacy involved, instead of just a platonic relationship.
This is why they shouldn't let me out
This is why society should not allow me to interact in public.
This is why you wouldn't let me in no
This is why you do not want me to be a part of your life.
I gave my usual act of contrition
I apologized like I always do when I mess up.
And you wouldn't let me pass go
And you did not let me move forward or redeem myself.
There's a price tag on everything about me
There's a cost associated with every aspect of my personality, character, and behavior.
And you can bet it's going cheap
And you can assume that this cost is very low or insignificant.
You can bet you can have
You can be confident that you can acquire or attain.
The shirt off my back
Anything and everything that I have, including the clothes on my body.
You can have what's underneath
You can access my innermost feelings, desires, and secrets.
Contributed by Kaelyn G. Suggest a correction in the comments below.