While you’re thinking about life
Time is passing by.
Don’t let the system get your soul ‘cause
It already has everything else!
Twenty-one and what a mess:
too many buttons to press.
Trying to dance you can’t help feeling so tense.
Trying to dance you can’t help feeling so (tense).
Forget about your past, about your future,
And don’t regret
You’re young! You’re living the best years of your life and
Trying to dance you can’t help feeling so tense!
Trying to dance you can’t help feeling so tense!
(Don’t think! Eat your snack!)
Why is everything so heavy?
(Go to work! Make your bed!)
I’m gonna have my first drink instead.
(You’re becoming an adult, don’t you wanna have a family?)
What the hell, why should I care?!
(You’re so lucky! You’re twenty-one!)
If I’m cursed, why should I feel blessed?
You don’t have to make everybody feel so bad.
When they ask, tell lies : “Yes, I’m fine!”.
Twenty-one and what a mess!
Don’t take anything for granted.
If you want to stay alive
There’s no escape.
Trying to dance you can’t help feeling so tense!
Trying to dance you can’t help feeling so
Tense!
credits
from 12|21,
released January 1, 2016
Many thanks to Francesco Fugazza for mastering.
Recorded, played, produced, written and mixed by Red Moth.
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