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from Happy to Be Here by Runnerup

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Bart strike again
Next week, buses too
Slow coming, nowhere to go
Nothing to lose
Every single place
Every single town
Kids chasing sun, but don’t know what it’s all about

So don’t keep me in
Don’t shut me out
I tried to be loving, tried to be passive-aggressive

And the kids would laugh
When I said where I’d been all day
Counting shots as they rang out
From the streets and the gun range
I guess this is a living
I guess this is a start
At least the view of the water’s nice
When you can see beyond the fog

Weather doesn’t change
65 degrees
Endless days on Telegraph
Always had a breeze
Am I too conceited
Am I to far gone
Will the paintings on my postcard
Start to run

So don’t keep me in
Don’t shut me out
I tried to be loving, tried to be passive-aggressive

And the tourists laugh
At the burnouts on the Haight
Who know better than anyone
Love’s free, but it doesn’t pay
I guess this is a living
I guess this is a start
At least the view of the water’s nice
When you can see beyond the fog

So don’t make me laugh
Would you really choose to stay
If the fire smoked you out
And the ground began to shake
This is living
I guess this is a start
At least the view of the water’s nice
Except today with all the fog

I tried to be loving, tried to be passive-aggressive

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from Happy to Be Here, released January 31, 2019

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