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crisis of a quarter life

by James Betzer

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this song is about choices it's about facing fears and questioning what it is exactly you want out of life

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when you get a mohawk for the very first time a day after not still being 29 a day after saying everythings still fine in this still life

when your Facebook friends become your enemies when you've got new glasses but you still can't see just how low you get from what keeps you high that's a crisis of a quarter life

when you get out of jail and have to stay at mom's cause you lost your apartment kept your dead end job with a cut in pay and a cut in Pride and a long bus ride

so you drink near beer in a motel 6 with a girl who loves you and she pays for it but you can't love her back cause you don't got a spine that's a crisis of a quarter life

and in your mind you're all alone why don't you just pick up the phone cause you don't want to hear the truth that it's wrong for you to want the things she want because they got you what you got and that ain't much

so you go to meetings at the crack of dawn and pretend to pretend that you want what they've got put a dollar in the basket for the coffee you drink and try not to think

Cause all you want in life is a normal mind and you know your foolish pride will kill you in time face the facts and fight or live a lie and die that's the crisis of a quarter life

I said goodbye to my best friend he beat me bloody I had no defense and just when I'm back on the mend all I want is to call him again twist the cap off his head and drown within

well you know what's right and you know what's wrong and you know that you know because you're writing this song I'm hearing things that I don't want to admit I can die without it or learn to live with it cause on myself I cannot rely that's a crisis of a quarter life

that's a crisis of a quarter life that's a crisis of a quarter life yeah that's a crisis of a quarter life but today I'm living in the light

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released November 17, 2014
all lyrics, music, and production by James Betzer

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James Betzer Eugene, Oregon

my name is James Betzer I grew up in Springfield Oregon and that instilled in me a goal to be as different as possible from my peers and neighbors.I feel I have succeeded at that goal. My major influences include but are not limited to Whiskeytown, Elvis Costello, Belle and Sebastian, Tears for Fears, Queen and many more. I also make electronic instrumental music under the moniker Kitten Tears. ... more

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