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Dirt Floor

from Was Still Alive by Johnny Dissent

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I buried my dreams
in the basement with the magazines I left when I left home.
and I used to spend my days, ten thousand miles away,
pretending to be someone better than I could ever be.
And in these games we used to play
the world was always so simple and I could make a difference
So when you ask what I wanted to be when I grow up,
the answers very clear, I always wanted to be him.

I wanted to be the hero, I wanted to change the world,
I wanted to be someone, I wanted to get the girl.
I wanted to be the hero, I wanted to change the world,
I wanted to be someone, but that’s not how it works

*SOLO PART OMG*

I left my heart down there in the dark
with all the bones of everything I've ever known
I'm standing in this basement
where my first band used to practice
we never played a show no one even knows
we were going to be the loudest,
we were going to play so god damn fast,
everyone was going to love us but it just didn't last

I wanted to be the hero, I wanted to change the world,
I wanted to be someone, I wanted to get the girl.
I wanted to be the hero, I wanted to change the world,
I wanted to be someone, but that’s not how it works

Theres still time to crawl back home
and lick my wounds, live in my old room.
head down to the basement, steel my nerves,
dig into the soil, find all the bones.
find the man I buried when i was just a boy,
make that person me, make that person me

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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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