Shoulda Stayed Down

from TURN THAT SILENCE UP by Eat This McKinley

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let’s ride bikes and talk about other peoples lives and how all the shit they we are doing is so much better than the shit they are doing. we whine about our lives but that’s alright cause everything will be fine. i heard that through the grapevine, you should have a great time pretending that you ain’t coming upset at the way the things worked out when you shoulda stayed down. cause we talk, talk, talk but we’re never saying anything. we walk around in circles by the stories that we tell. you can run, you can hide, you can die, you can fight like hell. this is what i want and i want it to be honest everything we said is in the past and beyond us. and this year has killed us slow. i wasn’t born in california nor was i born yesterday. i’d be losing all my convictions if i had any anyway as sirens shade the dashboard, cutting corners from my face. and i wonder bout what i could be if i didn’t decide to stay. a truck driver maybe, baby we could live on the interstate. when they ask us how, we shoulda stayed down. i wasn’t born in california, nor was i born yesterday. let’s ride bikes and talk about other peoples lives and how all the shit that they are doing is really no different than the shit we are doing.

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from TURN THAT SILENCE UP, released August 6, 2011

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