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Gap Year​/​I Already Know

from Anti​-​Social Media by Joker's Republic

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“Gap Year/I Already Know”
Music & Lyrics by Austen Gray

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“You’re throwing your life away
You’re making a big mistake
You won’t even last a day...”

Let me start at the beginning:
Or I guess it was the ending
of my Senior year of High School
When I was young and grinning and I said
that I didn’t want to go to college
I didn’t want to waste my time
or throw away a lot of money
That I will need to follow my dream
Which is to make a Ska-Punk record
and dominate the scene
The people that I talk to they don’t understand me
They look at me like I’m a freak
They all say the same things they say

“You’re throwing your life away
You’re making a big mistake
You won’t even last a day...
You’re throwing your life away!”

They say I’m throwing it away
And it guess it looks that way when for twelve years
All of our supposed teachers teach us to fear
What our life will become without
some DUMB piece of paper
That I can print at Kinko’s and it
would mean the same thing as anyone else
with a degree to me
I have a direction for me to be
I have a direction but society doesn’t see
what I want to do as good for me
and they put the pressure on me they say

“You’re throwing your life away
You’re making a big mistake
You won’t even last a day...
You’re throwing your life away!”

I know that I’m taking a big fucking risk
But I can’t do anything else right
So I might as well take a chance on the things I can
And if I fail I will let everyone down
All the people that have helped me get to
where I want to be
All the time and all the money
everybody’s faith in me
All of that will go to waste if I can’t make it
And all the guilt that follows that
will surely be the death of me
But I’m committed now and I’m not turning back!
Oh no.

*”Shred Or DIE” Guitar Solo*

“You’re throwing your life away
You’re making a big mistake
You won’t even last a day...
You’re throwing your life away!”

I’ve been told that I’ve got a bit of an ego
And it’s been said that I’m not politically correct
And I’ve never been diagnosed, but I’m pretty sure I have Imposter Syndrome...

Yeah, I know that I’ve got a really bad temper
And I’m well aware my pride gets in the way
Of doing what is right, and I know what it looks like
But beneath it all my heart’s in the right place

Oh, you don’t have to tell me
I already know
Please don’t waste my time I’m well aware
I already know
I’m full of it, I’m far from perfect
And it doesn’t bear repeating, so let’s move on

Yeah, I know, that I’m, way too clingy
And I don’t know when to let things go
I can see that I’m rough around the edges
And I know that I’ve made some poor decisions

Oh, you don’t have to tell me
I already know
Please don’t waste my time I’m well aware
I already know
I’m full of it, I’m far from perfect
And it doesn’t bear repeating, so let’s move on

*”Dave Grohl May Be Slightly Amused” Guitar Solo*

And I’m sure that I have hurt some people
That I cared about somewhere along the line
And I’m sorry that I did
I’d do anything to fix it

But even if I could fix everything
I’m not changing who I am so...

You don’t have to tell me
I already know
Please don’t waste my time I’m well aware
I already know
I’m full of shit, I’m far from perfect
And it doesn’t bear repeating, so let’s move on

Oh, you don’t have to tell me
I already know
Please don’t waste my time I’m well aware
I already know
I’m not pretending
I already know
Oh you don’t have to tell me
I already know.

Austen Gray/Joker’s Republic ©2016

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from Anti​-​Social Media, released April 30, 2017
“Gap Year/I Already Know”
Written by Austen Gray
Austen Gray -Guitars/Vox/Bass
Mike Campbell -Drums
Tommy Devito -Drums
Produced, Recorded & Mixed by Dean J. Santa
at Heartland Studios in Staten Island, NY
Mastered by Roger Lian

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