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Happy Birthday Jay

from Songs for Grownups Volume 2 by Jay Ackley

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by the Hell Yeah Babies

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I got a letter in the mail today
Saying my future self had passed away
It was post-marked the year 2081
I guess I’m making it past thirty-one.

I guess I get 5 more decades
Of hanging out and having fun
I wonder if my friends are still around
And whose robot bodies put me in the ground.

Did I go peacefully and quietly?
Was my wife at my bedside
As I drifted off to sleep?
Is that a drop of her saliva on the stamp?
On the holographic robot future stamp?

Oh, what a gift to know when I’m gonna kick
I can spend my next few birthdays
Getting high on hover-bikes
Life is flirty when you’re thirty what about at ninety-six?
I’ll have stories for the robots and my cybernetic kids.

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from Songs for Grownups Volume 2, released December 24, 2020
Featuring Nick Miller

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Jay Ackley Brooklyn, New York

Minnesotan in Brooklyn by way of London; having a sing-song through the dystopia.

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