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Never Gonna Have a Real Career

from Never Gonna Have a Real Career by Oh, that Patrick

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this song wrote itself in my head as I pedaled home from picking up my street performing license at Santa Monica City Hall / it attempts to explain the musician lifestyle without overly romanticizing it

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Your first mistake was giving me a guitar / And your second one was letting me perform in bars. / But your most egregious error was just lending me your ears
Now I'm never gonna have a real career. / My parents must have thought I'd get creative / Never fearing that I might become infatuated / And I'm sure sometimes they're proud of me but they correctly fear
That I'm never gonna have a real career / Rock and/or roll is no real vocation / It's just an excuse for self-glorification / I'm just a receptionist for the Muse / But feel like I'm licensed to broadcast my blues / Your third mistake was giving me a piano / And you sealed your fate, when I got my first studio/ But the quicksand that I'm sinking in is everybody here / Now I'm never gonna have a real career / Oh, yes, it's true, I am panhandling (Shine your boots, Gov'nor?) / But it's really just attention I'm demanding. / And because I wan't so badly to believe you when you cheer
I am never gonna have a real career

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from Never Gonna Have a Real Career, released January 1, 2008

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Oh, that Patrick Los Angeles, California

Originally from the Maryland/DC border, Patrick moved to LA in 2006. Since then, he's been writing/recording songs as a one man band. His clearest influences are Ben Folds Five and The Beatles. He loves life and fears death. Most of his songs are meant to help people cope with fear/loneliness through appreciation of life's awesomeness. He plays in an LA-based band called Nerds & Jerks. ... more

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