The first of a year-long project of songs made with 3 random constraints. The constraints of this one are as follows: 142 bpm, no electric guitar, and “That feeling get when you’re super on it at the beginning of something and it goes south”. So of course with that third constraint and it being the...
[Verse]
Bleary headed and clouded eyes as you open up a day planner for the first time
As an adult
People expect you to write shit in it and remember it later and check it often but you know
That'll never work
But you pick up your favorite pen and write down that 3:15 appointment with your doctor
Move your hand and the ink smudges so you won't recognize your own handwriting the next time you look
You've already fucked up
[Chorus]
But You'll get a new one
Next year
You'll get a new one
Next year
[Verse]
Productivity screeching to a halt on that project you've been dedicating your time to
You're already blocked
But three pages deep in a letter to your uncle explaining why calling an entire class of people 'lazy' is a form of casual racism
And sure it’s good to try to do that but these resolutions you made to get more shit done
You broke them so fast
[Chorus]
But you'll make a new one
Next year
(You broke them so fast)
You'll make a new one
Next year
(You broke them so fast)
You'll make a new one
Next year
(You broke them so fast)
You'll make a new one
Next year
Resolutions was written by Mike Shirley-Donnely.
Resolutions was produced by Mike Shirley-Donnely.
Curious Quail released Resolutions on Mon Jan 29 2018.