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Basement Anthem

from Was Still Alive by Johnny Dissent

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When I was young, and I was dumb,
Everyone told me I'd have to get a job.
I'm still doing my very best to prove those people wrong.
But its not always that easy
But the fire in my heart won't keep me warm at night
when its -13 below.
So I take the check and close my eyes
and think back to the better times

Pick slides and power chords,
Shitty bands and two minute songs
The closest friends and the cheapest beer,
these are our best years.
Pick slides and power chords,
Shitty bands and two minute songs
The closest friends and the cheapest beer,
these are our best years.

They make pills for people who are this angry.
And maybe I'd try them pop a few just like candy,
but that would require insurance, and a doctor.
So until the day that those are free,
there is only one cure for me.
A dirty basement, full of pissed off kids
who won't judge me for being what I am
Because what I am is angry, and hungry,
and lonely and nervous, but not tonight, tonight I feel great

Pick slides and power chords,
Shitty bands and two minute songs
The closest friends and the cheapest beer,
these are our best years.
Pick slides and power chords,
Shitty bands and two minute songs
The closest friends and the cheapest beer,
these are our best years.

Every band that I love quit the scene years ago,
but the songs just aren't important
We just need some place to go,
where the people won't hate us for being unhappy
Turn up the volume and make sure the world knows.
Break all the windows, and get the cops called again
those are just the symptoms of our generations cancer
These songs are the radiation that we'll pay for later
but for tonight this is the place that can make me feel better

Pick slides and power chords,
Shitty bands and two minute songs
The closest friends and the cheapest beer,
these are our best years.

Pick slides and power chords,
Shitty bands and two minute songs
The closest friends and the cheapest beer,
these are our best years.

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from Was Still Alive, released March 27, 2017

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Johnny Dissent wrote one good song six years ago and hasn't shut up about it since.

Dissent [Dih-sent] - to differ in sentiment or opinion, especially from the majority; withhold assent; disagree.

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