Charlyn Marie Marshall, also known as Chan (pronounced "Shawn") Marshall, was born in Georgia. After dropping out of high school, she started performing under the name Cat Powerwhile in Atlanta, backed by musicians Glen Thrasher, Mark Moore, and others. She soon moved to New York City where, after opening for Liz Phair in 1994, she met Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth and Tim Foljahn of Two Dollar Guitar, who encouraged her to record, and played on her first two albums, 1995's Dear Sirand 1996's Myra Lee. In 1996 she was signed to Matador Records, and released her third album, What Would the Community Think, which spawned a single and music video, "Nude as the News". Shortly following the release of What Would the Community ThinkMarshall disappeared from the musical scene, initially working as a baby sitter in Portland, Oregon and then moving to a farmhouse in Prosperity, South Carolina with boyfriend Bill Callahan (who performs under the name Smog).
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Cat Power
Where do the dreams of babies go
cause you know theyre all so good
And theyre also gone so fast
Keep all your guns at home
Help keep your momma safe
cause you know shes pretty good too
Where is the night so warm and so strange
That no one is afraid of themselves
Pick, pick up, dig, dig out those weeds
Out of your happy-go-lucky fields of such polluted thinking
Where do the rockets find planets x3
Where are the dreams of the babies going
cause you know theyre all going fast
Take, take as much as you can
cause you know its going so fast
You know its so good.
Where are the many mountains so brave
That they do not explode over everyone
Pick, pick up, dig, dig out those weeds
Out of your happy-go-lucky field
Of such polluted thinking
Where do the rockets find planets
Where do the rockets find planets
Keep your guns at home
Keep your guns at home
Help keep your momma safe
You know shes all good too
Shes pretty good
Where are the dreams of babies going
cause you know theyre all good