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Let's Write a Folk Punk Song

My mother's not an alcoholic but she's plenty of things I'd like to sing Thanks for criticizing my skinny jeans and fucked up child hood teeth. Here's to making my first girlfriend cry and squashing my beliefs, a toast for being paranoid and obsessed with what you lack. Better swallow all the car keys, mom, cause I may not come back. And dad, thanks for slowing down the car so I could stick my head up for knowing my mom is unstable and when I should just shut up. Here's to holding me down and bruising my wrists and daring me to leave because what I found and loved and lost is more than I could ever begin to believe. So here's to my brother who got the short end of the stick cause I was born so goddamn intelligent And here's to the buddies who left me on my own Because we're all too lazy to pick up the goddamn phone Said I'll splatter my brains across your bedroom mirror and serial killers don't have motive, not everyone knows enough to know what they don't, but if this isn't the so-called "real world" I don't know what is. So here's to death, Mr. Portuguese, zodiac signs, poor stitching and the trees (and their leaves.) So here's to now, Mrs. Angel face, you've finally got your perfect family (and you see) SO HERE'S TO THIS, my dear bestest friend, to laying in the tub at 2 am (til 4 am) And here's to wrinkled toes and kissing, to grass stained jeans and living where you are (you've gotten far) And you can try to end it all but they'll probably just hit you, And when you go to therapy I'd like to be there with you Because I don't think they know what they've got No they don't know, they don't know they don't know. So here is you, living on the streets. I'd give it all away so we could be (why not happy.) So here's to you, open heaven gates. Jesus knew that death awaits us all (well all fall down.) Everyone I love is dying, everyone I love is dying (screaming) x how ever many times you feel And I am dyyyyyying too.
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Jan 7, 2013
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