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This Won't Age Well (prod. by Damn Selene)

from The Laughter's Rehearsed by Happy Tooth

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    A physical cd of the 2021 feel-good-record-of-the-summer "The Laughter's Rehearsed.
    Artwork and layout by Damn Selene.

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lyrics

I'm more than cautious,
as far as safety goes.
Between the cold
and the concrete,
awake with achy bones.
Thinking on a future,
that's beaten down and
pistol whipped.
A place we are now,
where the instances
are rigorous.
I'm a symbolist that's
a little bit too direct.
This art is a weapon
the meaning's always a threat.
We're both in the same cell.
This won't age well.

We're all breakdown
or breakthrough.
Some people wake up
just to hate you.
Another lonely crowd
I won't even know
what to say to.
My hands bleed more
the older I get.
One man lives his dream,
the other's told to quit.
A hole to fix,
but we just keep on shoveling.
Shuddering
while my brother sings
of the suffering.
We're in the same hell.
This won't age well.

I wanted to burn it all.
So I bought a worry doll.
Purely to forget the wording
of how I would murder ya'll.
I forgive you.
Like I forgave my body.
Been friends with criminals
that couldn't wait to come rob me.
I woke up only thirty
with a hurt knee burning.
All my neighbors probably
heard me squirming.
Cursing the first thing
that started worsening.
It hurts to think.
And I can feel my rib cage swell.
This won't age well.

It's like I'm acting alert
while napping at work.
That's all the energy I had to exert.
I'm too sad to converse.
We had to disperse.
And the laughter's rehearsed.
Life's an inside joke we
aren't in on and we're mad at the words.
Injured by the embers.
Or a virus that enters
the center.
I wish I could censor
my temper.
We won't remember our ender.
I wish I could forget
what the page held.
This won't age well.

Be the chains you wanna
see broken in the world.
Be as strange as the emotions
in your journal.
I'm a guesser who keeps
his etchings inside the dresser.
I stopped wearing my heart on my sweater.
I keep it sequestered.
I've wished I wasn't born before.
But only when I'm buying plastic items
from the corner store.
There's never more remorse
than when something fake sells.
This won't age well.

This is my song to you.
A dedication.
To all the wrongs I've mused.
A resignation.
Some days the city's an eyesore.
Others I'm leaving out the side door
just to try and drive more.
I feel like Van Gogh
who's own success he can't know.
And so the days seem to pass so
god damn slow.
If you have a better way to live
than pray tell.
This won't age well.

This is a love song for
people that don't love themselves.

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from The Laughter's Rehearsed, released May 31, 2021

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"Both Happy Tooth and BDotJeff spoke to the idea that music can be therapeutic, and writing and recording is now less about reaching a larger audience than steadying the turmoil within. “You do start to question your own motivations, like, why am I doing this?” Happy Tooth said. “And I’ve realized that I love the art, and I have to make it because deep down it makes me feel better.” - MatterNews ... more

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