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The Beginning

from Losing Time by Just Dandy

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Story:

Charlie and Billy are kids. They are standing together in a crowded playground.
Billy is talking to Charlie, but Charlie’s attention is focused on a girl a few yards away. Billy notices this and encourages Charlie to go say hello. Charlie hesitates and looks down. When he looks back up he loses sight of the girl.

Many years later...

Charlie feels like he missed something.
Charlie is very old. He is a relatively successful songwriter. Despite a life spent in the pursuit of his creative endeavors and becoming a “whole person”, Charlie feels like he missed something, or someone.
Though he has made attempts at love, they all proved fruitless. He feels like he left the burner on some countless years ago and accidentally burned down his life’s true meaning. In the light of this loneliness and this gnawing feeling of having missed something, all his accomplishments seem colorless and hollow.
Especially now that the world is ending.



Lyrics:

This is a place I've built up my whole life spent working toward a goal. This is a space I've made with words and notes, trying to be whole. This is a monument I have made to a life well spent. With no need for rent cuz I got means, but my means ain't got no meaning cuz my life's been spent in preparation for a day that never came.

So hi there I'm Charlie. I guess I'm a whole person. At least that's what they tell me, and it's what I've hung onto. But what's the point of being whole if your life is single, boring, and stagnant. So Good For Everybody who Doubts this Boring Absolute that this Flat Fucking Soda we Call Existence means Absolutely nothing without whoever you are or whoever you were.

And though I’ve lived and tried to love, in the end I guess I must have missed it. I was too distracted by the building of my perfect self, that my life’s true meaning has been stuck on this dusty shelf. And it has expired. And I feel so tired. Yeah, I feel so tired. Good For Everybody who Doubts this Boring Absolute that this Flat Fucking Soda we Call Existence means Absolutely nothing without whoever you are or whoever you were.

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from Losing Time, released June 11, 2018

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