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Cassie found a book in the basement
of our middle school
That and a fire extinguisher
fine consolation for failing to get on the roof

Sometimes kids are little shit heads
Everybody knows that
Nobody can take it back

A custodian called the cops
Cassie and John ran off
I got a talking-to

Lesson learned:
Fear not what you do
when your middle class,
suburban bubble travels with you

Ended the summer many roofs shy
but the dream of arbitrary, silly goals stayed alive
So too with misapprehensions
about the congruity of my life
to other people's

Later I borrowed Peter's headset to shout in my room
In an Audacity session
My dad's 1970s folk guitar making the wave form bloom
Welcome a new obsession

I got my first laptop
It had a microphone
Had all I needed to always be alone
Stare at the white concrete walls of my dorm room
Writing songs about you
Writing songs about a different you
Writing songs about quote unquote You
Writing songs about Me via writing songs about You
leaving for college
Writing songs about missing all my friends
Writing songs about meeting an old man
Writing songs about not having a band
Writing songs about pretty much anything
Writing songs that barely made sense
Writing songs on the weekdays and weekends
Writing songs just to feel something

Eighteen on my dorm room bed
Writing songs just to feel something
Eighteen, I don't know who I am
Writing songs just to feel something
Eighteen got no politics yet
I'm writing songs just to feel something

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from The Birthday Songs, released August 15, 2021

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It's political music, whatever. Based in Boston, MA. Absolutely willing to drive very far to play for you and five of your vaguely alternative friends in your combination kitchen/laundry room. Hit me up. I'm fully serious.

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