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lyrics

LIFE
WILL
KILL
YOU

I’m having an existential crisis,
Thoughts of dying parents, dead friends
Thinking about time like it’s New Year’s Eve at midnight,
Sober minded clarity like New Year’s Day at sunrise
Asking myself, what’s the point of being alive?
If everything has to someday die
Some say that death gives life meaning,
I’m not so sure about that
I’m not so sure about anything

It’s not a crisis of faith,
It’s a crisis of living
It’s not denial or acceptance,
It’s everlasting melancholy
Life is a blessing,
And the blessing is pain
To live is to love,
And to love is to lose

Funeral scenes playing on repeat,
Nightmarish morbid daydreams
I walk around like a zombie,
In my head, a constant Night of the Living Dead
But not the fun cannibalistic kind,
More like the morose can’t get out of bed type
If grief comes in waves,
I’m drowning
I’m drowning and I’m choking on water

It’s not a crisis of faith,
It’s a crisis of living
It’s not denial or acceptance,
It’s everlasting melancholy
Life is a blessing,
And the blessing is pain
To live is to love,
And to love is to lose

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from American Dream, released February 2, 2024
Recorded throughout 2023 at the Fruit Cellar Headquarters in Edison, New Jersey

Sally Draper is
Ryan O’Leary
Bob Osowski

Mix and Engineered by Bob Osowski

Mastered by Nick Bolton at Bolton Sound

Ryan O’Leary - Guitar, Vocals
Bob Osowski - Guitar, Bass, Drums, Vocals

Brian Dipierro – Special Guest Guitar and Vocals on “Dipierro’s Hit”

John Warren – Xylophone on “The American Dream Is A Shopping Mall”

Shana Fitzpatrick and Will Kraemer – The American Dream Choir

Brian Dipierro, Will Kraemer, and John Petrick – Gang Vocals

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