The Farewell Party
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The Farewell Party lyrics

GenreFolk
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Life takes more than it gives, I shout at the sky Cause hyperbole tends to provoke a reply Then I waited 'til I knew no rescue would come Then I wrote one more half-hearted traveling song We have indulged our sadness and made up regrets But a trifle consoles what a trifle upsets With a wandering charm and the sunset of youth We still measure our lives out with coffee spoons Are we just too easily pleased Here with our pundits and sages Witty and pretty and shitty and high But don’t we get by I moved from the center from that maddening crowd But they put a Whole Foods at Gowanus canal Curated coffee, that conquistador Swallowed my grandpa's old auto parts store If there's a season for everything under the Sun I wonder what will be left when this one is done Maybe the great voice will speak once again Maybe we’ll turn off the lights and just let it in I dreamt last night I was satisfied I didn't feel lonely or boring or terrified And the music was playing with everyone here With the saints and the rebels and the true pioneers But the merchants they followed with tinsel and gilt And they stole the machines that the angels had built And I woke with the strangest fear in my chest The food I was hungry for doesn't exist

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