Name: 21 (2011)
Duration: P00H04M18S
Description: Originally released as "Endangered Nose's Last Hurrah" on the 2011 record Put it in the Pizza!

21 (2011)

from The Birthday Songs by The Michael Character

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Originally released as "Endangered Nose's Last Hurrah" on the 2011 record Put it in the Pizza!

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We smashed Endangered Nose
On the stone Getty behind the Aqua Lounge
In Asbury Park
A nigh-fitting capstone to our summer
Placed together in the dark
We met some awesome folks
Down in Toms River
Rockin’ out at Floyds’ on most Monday nights
And Grover’s Mill on Tuesdays
Just another song about how summer has to end
And I don’t know why, I must memorialize this moment
But it feels right, so I’ll do it anyway
We need to break away
From all of the shit that gets caked on
When you stay in one place
For way too long
Abandon the routine
That we’ve comfortably assumed
Cut the cables and keep pushing forward
The crisis of youth has
Turned its’ back on me
My reflection in the review lookin’ back to see
The same smiling face, just a little less spritely
Probably too many long walks listening to “Light Leaves” (yea, that’ll do it)
But no matter how hard I try
I’ll never know why, never know why, never know why
Your face burns holes in my mind
But I’ll try, Oh I’ll try, I’ll try to figure it out some other time
I need the freedom of
An ocean full of love
To demarcate the person I have been from the person I will soon become

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from The Birthday Songs, released August 15, 2021

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The Michael Character Boston, Massachusetts

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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