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20 Years

from Losing Time by Just Dandy

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Story:

Decades have gone by and they are nearing the day of Beth’s accident, and Charlie and Billy are staying near Billy and Beth’s old house.
Most of Charlie and Billy’s time has been spent doing anything but reliving their past. They’ve been road tripping, staying in random places, eating wherever they want, doing their best to stay entertained and hopeful.
Charlie has been writing new songs since they began their descent into the past and he wants to perform one with a band. Normally this would be an easy feat. All he would need to do is wait for a day in the past when he had performed a concert and rehearsed with his band in the same day. He could quickly teach them the song, then play that concert again, but with the addition of this new song.
The problem is that all his shows in the near past are on the other side of the country, and he wants to be with Billy on the day she tries to save Beth.
So he finds a nearby venue with an open mic, and every week he makes a crazy effort to find a full band and teach them the song in one day.
On the fifth day he succeeds. He finds a band and is ready to perform.
At the open mic he ends up talking to two people from another band, Audrey and Vickie. The main singer-songwriter and the guitarist\backup singer respectively. The three of them hit it off and share a lot of the same musical interests. They agree to learn and sing his song in the next 45 minutes.
They perform. It was worth all the effort, and Charlie is genuinely happy.


Lyrics:

And looking up, and feeling vacant, and sighing as the world turns grey, and stepping out, and seeing nothing, and rolling into our fake past.

In 20 years I can see us both in a bigger world,
bright and full of promise.
In 20 years we'll mean something,
and people will stop us in the street,
asking just how we came to be
in twenty years they'll all know
just how far we've come.

You hold your breath, try not to shout. Praying for reprieve, a way to let it out. Desperately searching, his vision in blue, he sees everything in you.

Faint recollection venom strains of tension from a voice above, a holy mother keeping us all cheerful and sedated, trained domesticated on leash, begging, learning how to crawl. Sitting next to you, sitting miles apart, the difference it is still unknown to me. If this is it, if it's time to quit I hope to god that I will leave some proof of all our failure, of all our hope, and of everything that means something to me.

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from Losing Time, released June 11, 2018

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