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in a dorm room in a classroom it's hard, the snow falls too fast for me to see very far
gettin caught up in things and i don't know how
if only my tenth grade self could see me now
and i'm tryna move forward, tripping over white lies: full time jobs, small apartments, pointless essays, black ties
grow up, grow old before my time telling me to waste the best years of my life

not having much stuff is poverty and not having four walls doesn't make you free
tryna say i need more than i do, when i know all i need in the end is me and you
and some cans of food, a little bit of cash
a banjo, a guitar, and a decent stash of toilet paper (cause that's one thing i can't live without)
there's a difference between caution and doubt

and in the anthems of my youth
there's a great amount of truth
life without cynicism, forgetting criticisms
where optimism and simplicity and love are all we need
in the anthems of my youth
there's a great amount of truth
follow what you believe, though they say that you're naive cause
optimism and simplicity and love are all we need

so i'll wander and live rough, people say i'm tender but it turns out i'm tough
gonna eat some things that grew from the dirt, not gonna worry about changing my shirt

or washing my hair, or looking nice
or my gpa, or my doctor's advice
buying a house, or finding a wife
or what the fuck i'm doing with my life

and if that makes me a dirty hippie, if that makes me juvenile
if that makes me idealistic i suggest you try living that way a while

cause in the anthems of my youth
there's a great amount of truth
life without cynicism, forgetting criticisms
where optimism and simplicity and love are all we need
in the anthems of my youth
there's a great amount of truth
follow what you believe, though they say that you're naive cause
optimism and simplicity and love are all we need

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from I'm home now, and I'm going to pay the bills., released March 3, 2014
Dominic Pfeifer

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