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Recorded by Kyle Paas at Mofonics Studios, NYC and Craig Levy at Little Pioneer Recording Studios, NYC

Mixed by Kyle Paas

Produced by Kyle Paas, Danny Musengo, and Paul Weinfield

Danny Musengo: Vox, songwriting
Paul Weinfield: Backing vox, guitars, bass, and synths
Cody Geil: Violin
Brad Whiteley: Keys
Kyle Paas: Drums

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When I was seventeen,
my father spoke to me.
He said, Son, you could be king,
but you'll just probably end like me.

I felt your mother's breath,
warm against my neck.
I loved her with the violence
of a man with nothing left.

But there were nights when she
would plead to me:
Don't let the devil come between
our bodies as they lay between
and orange and yellow sky.

She had everything,
and I only got high.

She locked the bathroom door.
She said, I can't pretend no more.
The beast that comes at night
is ever leaving us alone.

I cried until my knees gave out
and I drove that car back into town
and I fucked a girl who'd been around
the block a thousand times.

She had everything,
and I only got high.

So look at you:
Are you happy with what that got you?
Now you'll never be what you thought you'd be
when you saw it as a kid on a movie screen.

Look at you:
Are you happy with what that got you?
Now you'll never be what you thought you'd be
on the day he laid down his head and died.

She had everything,
and I only got high.

Words and music copyright of Danny Musengo

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from Fairytales For the Fatherless, released June 5, 2018

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