Long Story Short

from Speak, Memory by The Revenants

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I moved out to LA back in ’79
‘Cause I wanted to make it in the biz
I wanted to make my bones making songs, yeah
That’s what was and is always as it is
So I got my meager crap together
And I found a bungalow in Sliver Lake
And I set out on my uncertain path
As scary as an LA earthquake

Long story short
Things didn’t go according to the plan
Long story short
I wrestled with my boogeyman
Long story short
Things didn’t really work out too well
Long story short
I just gotta say what the fucking hell

I wrote me a whole stack of songs
And I guess they weren’t all that good
But I didn’t know it at the time
Even though you would have thought I should
I was just pretending
Pretending that I had the skill
But when I look back on it all now
My music mountain was merely a molehill

Whose story is this
Who is exactly telling the tale
Is it Jonah inside the ticking whale
Whose story is this

So I never did make it in music
At least not in a viable way
Still I’ve kept on writing song after song
Up until this very day
Do I wish I'd been more successful
It depends on what you call success
‘Cause I finally cracked open this one small thing
Even though the rest of my life is a fucking mess

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from Speak, Memory, released December 28, 2023

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