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My bachelor’s degree has fallen asleep on my dresser
I’ll hang it someday in place I’ll have made
Where presently posters from high school pepper my wall
But for now I am stalling
But for now I’ll pretend
That 30 is dying, that 40 is death
That the greatest of sins is to find time to rest I am high strung
I am strung out
I’ll pretend that my friends are truly fucking free
But my future is pending and that won’t bother me
I’ll pretend it don’t bother me
You’re moving to Brooklyn I’m living at home
Neurotically grasping at proof that I’ve grown up a little
That I’m not the same child I was for no reason other than
The room that I sleep in, the car that I drive
The same mortal fear that I’m wasting away still alive
But our 20s aren’t sacred, we’re just blowing steam
‘Cause we’re scared there’s a threshold for living our dreams that we’re passing
That we’re missing our stop, we forgot to get off, and soon it’ll be gone
But it won’t be gone
And I know you wouldn't be told what to do
You can fall on your own knees
Tend to your own bruises, so go
You can run the whole way back to Brooklyn
Just drop me a line when you feel something brewing inside
Some anxious demise
One tiny last token of all the years spent telling lies
To yourself and your friends 'bout beginnings and ends
And the way you don't buy into
Societal paradigms of success in the sense of complete self reliance
Well you can talk all you want but I know when you're lying

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from .​.​.​Is This Part Of The Art?, released March 18, 2013
Connor Healey - Contrabass

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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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