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Mediocrity, For Micah Dahl Anderson (who is amazing and not mediocre)

from Danburry 2003​-​2018 by Drew Danburry

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from the Pallid Boy & Spindling Girl EP

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When the mirror doesn't look good and the years stretch strange behind me
The future dark and unseen looks bleak
Now I'm old enough to know that it's a minefield when you chase dreams
and our laughter can turn to screams one blink

Success isn't what it seems at all and everyone has their curtain call
Every golden moment must end
You put in work there's no guarantee your faith and your hope can cause you to sink
or at least a stagnant slow decay

Let me mollify this ache find a new place to notch arrows
use purging words for these throes of change
and I'll shirk apathy again and this fear that I've lost feeling
and any sense of meaning for life

But then that voice calls out night how do you argue with a made up mind
extolling moribund ideals
So you pull the long bow and hide in between some consonant chords some pages and ink
A copper bottom turned to rust

Now we circle wagons in spades and opposing all things puts you center in the fray

And that's mediocrity something most of us are sharing
and our insecure comparing yields pain
Cause there's always someone else who has more or less than we do
so we scratch and claw to feed our black hole

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from Danburry 2003​-​2018, released October 18, 2019

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Drew Danburry Baltimore, Maryland

Drew Danburry has independently toured and released records since 2002.

He's released over 400 songs on over 20 albums/13 EPs and played 800 + shows worldwide. Including 2 Daytrotter sessions, 3 invitations to Pop Montreal, 1 to Pygmalion Music Festival and 1 to Treefort Music Festival.

He's accomplished this long list of acheivements almost entirely DIY. ... more

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