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Side A // VAPEDEMIC
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BACK IN THE DAY WE’D WAIT FOR AFTER DARK, WALK FROM AARON’S HOUSE STRAIGHT INTO LION’S PARK. THE COPS STOPPED US ONCE, WE TOLD ‘EM IT WAS CIGARS. THEY DIDN’T BUY IT. THERE’S NOTHING LIKE THE FEELING YOU GET WHEN YOU’RE BREAKING THE LAW AND YOU’RE JUST A KID. BUT WHEN THEY PUT YOU IN CUFFS, THAT FEELING OF REGRET, YOU WON’T REGRET IT. BEHIND SALT BROOK SCHOOL IT WAS MY FIRST TIME. THEN WE WALKED TO MATT’S HOUSE TO GET STUFF OUR EYES. WE WAITED IN THE DRIVEWAY WHILE HE TALKED TO HIS PARENTS INSIDE. POLAND SPRING BOTTLES AND APPLE CORES, GETTING PARANOID ABOUT THE NEIGHBORS NEXT DOOR. IF THE GIRLS ONLY KNEW, WOULD THEY STILL THINK I WAS A NERD? LIKE THE WAY KIDS DO, I BUILT IT UP IN MY HEAD. IT WAS A SECRET WE SHARED, JUST ME AND MY FRIENDS, AND THAT MADE IT SPECIAL, ONLY WE’D UNDERSTAND. NOW I SEE IT ON THE STREETS OF DENVER ROCK CITY, PEOPLE SUCKING ON PENS LIKE IT’S MOS EISLEY. IT’S A SUPERDRAG, AND THEY’RE SUCKING OUT THE FEELING. IT’S THE WAY IT ALWAYS GOES WITH GROWING UP. YOU GOTTA SAY GOODBYE TO THE THINGS YOU LOVED. DUDES, IS ANYONE STILL ROLLING BLUNTS? GIMME 10 MORE YEARS I’LL FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO GET ALL SELF-RIGHTEOUS AND NOSTALGIC ABOUT. BUT THAT’S A LONG WAY AWAY, I KNOW SOMETHING WE CAN DO RIGHT NOW. MY CAR, I’LL DRIVE, AND WE’LL FLY. WE DON’T GOTTA HIT 88 JUST TO FLY BACK TO THE GLORY DAYS. MY CAR, OUTER SPACE, WE CAN FLY BACK TO THE GLORY DAYS.
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Side B // CARS
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SOMETIMES WE’D WALK HOME TOGETHER. SOMETIMES I’D JUST HAVE MY DISCMAN. I ONLY EVER WANTED A GIRLFRIEND TO UNDERSTAND WHAT MATT PRYOR SAID. I ALWAYS HAD MORE FUN WITH YOU GUYS INSTEAD. BACK IN THOSE DAYS WHERE WE’D WAIT OUT FRONT, YOU’D DRIVE RIGHT OVER AND PICK US UP. WE’D KICK OUT THE JAMS, ALL OUR FAVORITE SONGS. NOTHING MATTERED, WE WERE DRIVING AROUND. SOME NIGHTS WE’D MEET UP IN BASEMENTS AND JUST TALK ABOUT THE GIRLS IN OUR GRADE. BUT WHEN I SAW THEM AT SCHOOL IN THE HALLWAYS, I WOULDN’T HAVE AS MUCH TO SAY. I CAN’T COMPLAIN SOME THINGS HAVE CHANGED. WE USED UP SO MANY FIRST TIMES. BUT WE AIN’T DONE YET, LET’S MAKE SOME MORE. OUR SCHOOL HAD A BATTLE OF THE BANDS. SOME OLDER KIDS COVERED ‘ONLY IN DREAMS’. I WAS SITTING WAY UP IN THE BLEACHERS, I GOT THOSE TEENAGE ROCK & ROLL DAYDREAMS. SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE I’M STILL 16.
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Bud Bronson & The Good Timers Denver, Colorado
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