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Better In The End

from Long, Endless Parade by The Academics

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Track 12 off Long, Endless Parade

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Walk to my favorite bar
With sunglasses on
And pretend that I don't exist
Just turn the jukebox on
Got my bookmarked spot
Order a scotch from off the list
But from an unmarked car
Out in the parking lot
You scream remember when we were kids
I'm sorry not that much
But let's stay in touch
Then regret ever saying it

And you told me once
Life's a deck of cards
And each day it's a new hand
Some days it's an ace
Sometimes it's bust
I'm just doing the best I can
But do you have to count
Each time you're right
Like it's a game that I can't win
If you can let one go
If you can let one slide
It might be better in the end

But what change can come
When our system's fucked
And all that hope don't pay our rent
The left leans right
The right seems wrong
For most of us it's sink or swim
Or jobs make us sleep
Then we can't go to bed
So we just stare at TV screens
When the static hits
We don't even flinch
Like we've been caught up in a dream

And they wrapped him up
And they choked him out
For selling cigarettes on the street
While the EMT and the NYPD
Heard him scream out I can't breathe
And NPR reported no CPR
Was performed at the crime scene
That wave of blue
Crashed over his black body
They left him dying in the street

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from Long, Endless Parade, released July 28, 2017
Adam LaGreca: Songwriter / Guitar / Vocals
Devon Reed: Lead Guitar
Christy Cui: Bass Guitar

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Indie Rock band from Brooklyn, NY.

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