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After I graduated college, I had the longest songwriting drought since I started writing songs. I honestly got scared that I was done for the foreseeable future. This was the song to finally get things going again. I went all summer without finding a job that would fit my degree and just started working as a part-time janitor at my town’s park district while I kept searching. This is another song about finding myself in a rut and then yelling at myself about it (this is a theme throughout all my songs I think…) I was gonna write more myself, but in me and Rigby’s room there’s a Cometbus quote literally sitting on the wall right next to me that says it better than I can: “It’s too easy to just let yourself be defeated, to wallow in the comfort of suffering. To let your self-destructive tendencies become your whole life. To retreat and hide from the world you could have taken by storm. To keep the fruits of your creativity to yourself and let them rot on the vine. It’s too easy to say you’re a loser and think there’s something noble about failure.” Okay, so maybe this song isn’t that dramatic, but hey!

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I got acne, my hair is thinning, at the same time
and I’m slowly, learning, that I don’t mind
cuz my body don’t know, whether to stay young or grow old
and at least that means we got something in common

I got a job, as a part time janitor
but I’m working on getting something more serious
I wanna use my degree, I wanna start paying my debt
I wanna make my parents proud, I wanna make myself proud

I want to be a radical actor
I want to start taking my life into my own hands
I won’t do that by sleeping in, and eating frozen pizza
I won’t do that by feeling sorry for myself

I need to kick it into gear
I need to start on those projects I’ve been putting off
I need to start speaking up against what I know is wrong
I need to lead by example and write more protest songs

But most of all, what I need, in this time of transitions
is to look in the mirror, and sing to myself
I got acne, and I’m balding, at the same time
I got acne and I’m balding, and I don’t mind

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from Holy Shit, released December 20, 2016

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