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8 West to Beach Cities
04:50
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Chasing cars through big city lights Through endless days & longer nights
Driving while we're texting friends
I know for sure this year will never end
Like the others
Standing in the park at the top of the hill had our first tattoos and believed in fashion still
And it mattered
22 years and a serious girl gonna find a way to save the world
Live right now, drink through the night
Hope and pray everything’ll be alright
All my life for what it’s worth it’s worth
Then to now and back to birth
Looking for a moment yet to come, waiting & waiting & waiting & it’s gone
Now it’s later
Moths drift through the spotlights like erratic shooting stars on summer nights
And it mattered
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Hospital Bed
03:22
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Well your sweet-sixteen was a bummer
And your twenty-first wasn't better
It took a whole lotta liquor and drugs to make it tolerable
And the guys that got you off are you Facebook friends but you never talk
They're just pictures scrolling up a screen when your boss ain't looking
And you can't look back
But you do anyway
And the kids seem younger these days
No, you shouldn't look back
But I know you will anyway
And you'll feel so old
Well your life feels like a Lou Reed song
The same two chords and a monotonous voice
But the people that you love best say it's really quite brilliant
And you're holding out for the next big thing
Each day it gets a little bit close
But playing the scratch-cards dirties up your nails
And the government check seems a long time coming
So you just move on
And that hospital bed doesn't feel real yet
So you go on living
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Ennui There Yet?
03:15
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When the media comes with their digital guns it's all over
And the narrative love of your life has become a tall order
They speak with the presumption of your ignorance
They are superfluous
And the aging curve and returned your words to degenerates
On and on it falls from the sons of Mike Foucault
Somewhere else they know
That it's a lie
It's the men in the sky
I took a souvenir away from here for a drink
And the tender passed the gaslight to help me think
The mob came for me but I deleted my life
The sex and the news have forced me to shudder my eyes
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It's Too Late
03:18
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All along I thought you’d take me to my grave
Where all my curiosity has gone
I could tell you what to think and what to say
You could tell me off and that’s alright
So what’s it to ya?
All along I thought you’d be there on that day
We stumbled through to see the story end
God will tell us what was right and what was wrong
And all those things we never understood
But it’s too late and now you know
That it’s too late and now you know
It’s too late and now you know
Take me back to days I can’t remember now
Tell me it was worth it at the time
Once you’re gone I’m gonna wander through your name
And wonder how it lasted for so long
But it’s too late and now you know
That it’s too late and now you know
It’s too late and now you know
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Slinking in the shadows drinking from a bottle of lust
Your dignity's long since cynically lost to the dust
She said, "I liked the book more than the movie"
I said, "I know, but it'll all be over soon"
woah woah
Because of you I'm like a man who's lusting
For women who are fractions my old age
Maybe happiness is overrated
Your medicated ghost still knows my name
I tried to believe, I tried to agree it was worth it
I tried so hard to forget it was you all along
One day soon I'll sail to the moon and I'll burn up upon my reentry
And the pundit TV will all foam at the teeth over me
woah woah
If I could go again I'd be a writer with books for sale on supermarket lanes
American eyes would pass my aisles hopes and fears un-reconciled
And everything would be the same
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Johnny Crimes Salt Lake City, Utah
Johnny Crimes are a punk/post punk rock trio located in Salt Lake City, UT. Current members include Johnny, Mike, and Will.
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