Saturday Lovers (bonus track)

from Too Sick For School by Old Joy

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you don't have to listen to this song to say you've heard the album
It's more of a demo than any of the other ones. i feel guilty for being alive when so many people i know are gone, i try to be grateful and come to terms with actually being happy to have made it.
life is always only what you make it, if you ever even do.

lyrics

my eyes are swimmin with the stars
one of them is me
my friends are all between the bars
trying so hard to be free

my head's a paper party cup
eyes as wide as empty moons
my face is always lookin' up
my tongue carries a tune

your back is lookin crooked
you're a flower & you wilt
saw an exit & you took it
across a bridge you didn't build

on a road you never paved
in a car you never bought
If you float you will be saved
if you sink you just will not

no if's and's or but's about it
no reason not to is too frail
you know that you're too dumb to doubt it
you're too stupid to fail

fake names at an open mic
fake friends by your side
fake feelings that i hope you like
fake stars light up the night

i had a dream of a ferris wheel
i kissed you at the top
your mouth felt wet & very real
my love for you did not

holdin' hands in my old room
perfume on the tv
you wished that i could love you soon
i just wished i could be me

never knew just who he was
just knew that he was there
in between the awful fuss
& the ecstatic despair

dad he always said to me
the world just isn't fair
it doesn't owe you shit or sheen
it just doesn't fucking care

and i believed the things he said
i guess that i still do
now i'm happy i'm not dead
because i'm next to you

you just talk a good deal less
than i ever could
it honestly makes me impressed
makes me dream in "shoulds"

you never asked me where i'm going
you only ask me why
there is a sick comfort in knowing
that both of us will die

makes me feel like its all good
we're in it while we can
makes me feel misunderstood
by all my old plans

i know i was the last in line
i waited all damn day
the place was closed & that was fine
it's much better this way

i watched them all in single file
walk in & dissappear
i left at the 11th mile
so yeah, i'm still here

i would feel guilty, i would feel bad
i almost thought I did
but sometimes every thing is sad
it's not my fault you couldn't live

i didn't choose the path you took
or even pick your part
but now that you can't even look
i'm showing you your heart

you danced alone in apartments
you went to movies too
no one knew where your heart went
once it went out of you

i can't claim to know a single thing
if i ever did i forgot
and if i was myself i'd sing
if i wasn't i would not

i guess that's how you are too
or how you used to be
i used to wish that i was you
now i wish you were me

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from Too Sick For School, released April 20, 2023

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Scum Pop/Power Trash from Chicago IL
Now located in Austin TX
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IG: @oldjoychicago

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