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Recuperation II
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Gavin Castleton
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It was 1995 when our 17 year old hot rods collided
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I was driving a '78 Tercel, you were rolling in Sluggo, the station wagon from hell
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We stacked our decks into houses, this is how the cards fell
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I tiptoed into my senior year at Grant High
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I was afraid my feet would grow roots through the tiles
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And have me forgetting about my band in Rhode Island
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I could've been in love but I didn't want to try
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I could've been above all the parties (which was really more my style)
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But when you're in a new place you've got to adapt for a while
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It was a match made in Portland, Oregon
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You know the story well, but I'ma tell it again, yo
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56th and Halsey, my rhymes were kinda stupid
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We wanted to learn to freestyle so we passed the mic
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With the four track run through the family Hi-Fi
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Inspired by The Roots, The Coup, Common Sense, and A Tribe Called Quest
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In fact, one of the best times we ever had
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Was a lyrical collaboration in your basement
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We wanted to slam a track like the Beastie Boys
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When our voices weren't cracking, we were still cracking up
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'Cause the track was about the flames we spray painted on my car
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And how the clutch was so shot I had to start it on a hill
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I remember every lyric that we wrote together still
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And regret we never tag teamed it on the same bill
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But that's not to say we never will
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West coast to East coast, psychologically thrilled
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Down at Sandy Lanes, we used to chill
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Used to play pool until midnight
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Take the underground railroad up the hill
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To your parents' house
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Creep downstairs and rant about gils
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It was ill how we recorded so much music on the four track
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Learned the basics of producing but I wrote whack
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I love that you only hear the laughter when you listen back
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It's that under-critical objectivity that I lack
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When I went back to Providence, we kept in touch
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Our bassist quit the band and you flew out to save us in the clutch
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Brought the gangly honky flavor to the East coast (dude)
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Stayed at the Bell Hotel, which was fresh until
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We moved to that spot up on college hill
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So hot all summer but we didn't have to pay a dime
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Made beats with my first sampler and the four track in the bedroom we shared
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It was the easiest summer of our lives but working 9 to 5, I don't think we cared
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My whole world collapsed when you finally quit the band
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I turned you down when you asked me to help you drive back
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I couldn't see that I was choking you because I only focused on my hands
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I've always been sorry for that
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It hurt too much to do the right thing
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It took a while for me to see that you weren't giving up on our dream
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You were giving up on mine
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It was the healthiest thing for both of us but didn't seem so at the time
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In the end, our relationship was fine, it survived
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A few years later, you made your way back to Rhode Island
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I'm sorry that I was such a bitch to work with when you needed my help
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Within all your songs, I tried too hard to find myself
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A year later, I find myself in your shoes
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Rocking out to my own songs with everything to prove
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I got the destitute blues, cooking ramen in a teapot
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Glorify the idea of freezing in the name of rock
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You pulled me out of the ice like an after school special
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Backpacking through Europe with a clear head in a thick fog of chuckle
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You offer beer, I counter offer knuckle
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I laugh in English while you choke in German
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I'm impressed and annoyed at your persistence in learning
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And what drives me to bitch
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Drives you to drink
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I respect half of what you say
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But all of what you think
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Naw, really
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I know I'm hard on you for taking your time
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And when I'm rushing on your queen
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You're slowly taking mine
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Ao I'm learning that most times
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You're winning in the end
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Breaking my defenses as a passive best friend
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And I'm worried about you, B
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Taking an easy life so hard
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Measuring that life to a hero in a book
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Convinced that you're a cowboy in the wrong time
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A protag with all the antagonism you can find
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I hope when you want to relax, you'll play this song
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Taylor made to be a "bad-night-no-play" remedy
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Buy another beer when you think of me
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And check it, I didn't say one thing about the industry
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But it gets realer, I'm here to listen when you get tired
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Signed, "Forever inconvincible
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Your Designated Driver."
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