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Robot Princess - Heart Shaped Shades

from Songs My Friends Wrote (Volume 2) by Jay Ackley

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i could never understand the math
that led you down this career path
you used to only wear rock and roll t-shirts
metal punk and thrash
you'd get so angry when guys said you'd never smile
you're on the track team running mile after mile

oh 1600 candles in a row
you're the second richest girl i know
you were riding in your best firneds car to the city for some show

for all the times you wore your heart-shaped shades
on a landfill or a goodwill somewhere half a life away
i can't look too long like staring at the sun
was my life ever better than in august 2001

what about the orthopaedic shoes
you had the leading actess blues
your father lied and told us bad things only ever come in twos
let's look through magazines and cut out things we see
let's watch olympic skating tapes on cathode-ray tvs
i can't look too long like staring at the sun
was my life ever better than in august 2001

did you get th ephone call the next day
did you kow what it waould say
did you let it ring 500 times wishing it would go away

i could never understand at all
spending hours locked in bathroom stalls
between the tv and the internet they had you pressed up to the wall

you hide your eyes behind your heart-shaped shades
i bet, i bet it never fades

i can't look too long like staring at the sun
was my life ever better than in august 2001

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from Songs My Friends Wrote (Volume 2), released August 20, 2020
Song by Robot Princess!

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

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