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This was the first of a series of songs I wrote about my childhood and teenage years growing up in Staten Island, NY and the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis. I think I wrote it some time in 2017, which was the same era that most of Pipe Dream was written. The line about Kourtney falling out of the treehouse ended up in the song “Hot Summer Night,” and the rest of the concept got a sadder tone and became a song called “Good Old Days” that will be on an upcoming release. Hearing the beginnings of that song, and how much happier it sounds this way, has made me question the switch to the sadder tone, so we will see what happens. I used to be afraid of writing sad songs because I didn’t want to bum people out, so I would try to write the sad song in a major key and make it poppy sounding. I think I’m kinda over that method now, and ready to let the sad songs be sad if they need to be.

The chord progression is completely ripped off of the song “Mayonnaise” by the Smashing Pumpkins, one of my favorite bands.

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The house that I grew up in isn’t the house and I remember because the house that I grew up in it used to seem much bigger and the yard I used to get lost in when I was just a little kid became the yard I got drunk in with all my friends before I left for college

do you remember that night that Kourtney went and fell out of the tree House and we all thought she was surely dead until she started screaming “I’m Okay!” let’s get the crew together it’ll be just like 2007 again except that I’m not drinking and some of us are missing because

hell hath no fury like an entire generation that got strung out on heroin because we lost faith in everything and the friends that I grew up with aren’t the friends that I remember because the friends that I grew up with know that the good old days are over dead and gone

The town that I grew up in isn’t the town that I remember because the town that I grew up in it used to thrive and prosper but all the cars and all the houses were bought with money that you never really had so when the market tanked it all got taken from you by the banks and our parents just don’t get it yeah they’re so out of touch cause they grew up in days of picket fences and entry level jobs while all my friends are working overtime in coffee shops and restaurants because our degrees are useless if everybody has one

and hell hath no fury like an entire generation that’s stuck working service jobs to pay our student loan debt off and the house that you grew up in isn’ the house that you remember because the house that you grew up in got sold in a foreclosure to the banks
Hell have no fury like an entire generation not ashamed of working service jobs to pay our student loan debt off and the world that we grew up and won’t be in the world that we remember because we’re tearing it down brick by brick and creating something different

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folk punk from Lancaster, PA

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