Big Change

High school summer vacation
 On heavy rotation
 It spills through broken PA speakers
 We are all older now
 And the same things get us going
 At least I can admit it
 The best years of our lives
 Were spent in some stranger's basement
 Medley made of empty cans and exes
 And that radical romantic conversation
 About how we are like mutants
 Who found each other by chance through rock n roll music
 Clenched fist, eyes wild
 Scream over the records, you artfully compiled
 While I put my bad faith into practice
 Sit at home on Saturday night
 Ease into my false sense of superiority
 No art degree, no conservatory
 Just Katie and me
 And whatever we are drinking
 To diminish our diplomacy
 If you can't appreciate the art
 Appreciate the air conditioning
 High school dance with me baby
 I gave it all up
 Baby, I slipped away before your grasp was too tight
 We're both older now
 But you still let the music determine how you feel
 Any given night
 Watch you sway in your dress and ruining your life
 And so you are not like the others
 Yeah practice, you'll change
 Under toxic matter with zero effort made
 Well I haggled and (?) for just a moment
 It's a beautiful idea
 But hopelessness brings consistency
 And the disappointment it isn't surprising
 So never swoon
 You sing songs to clean your fingernails to
 And your letters read and write and seek out the guillotine