It's Nothing, Really

from Smile, You Did Your Best by Puddleton

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Is it the world, or is it me? I think that question is the heart of this track.

Compositionally, of all the songs on the EP, I think this is the most representative of the sort of songs I would like to write.

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A woman screams as a life slips out her legs
They place him, soft, inside a crib

A man shudders as his soul slips out his mouth
They sink his body to the ground

A baby boy, does he know that he will live
A million fists slammed into walls?

A grown up girl, is she thankful for each choice?
Or resent the fate that brought her here?

Oh, my life, my life
has come
and gone

My life,
has come
and gone

A business woman 20 years at the firm
She's gotta work to feed her kids

A character on the TV her children watch, alone, asks
Is it the world or is it me?

Is it me?

Why, why why,
do I live
this way?

"They told us we could be
anything that we want
A gardener or even president"

"Then they throw us into schools
Sort our classes by our age
And tell us all to get
Straight As"

Hear us, Hear us!
There's not much we want!

Tell us Tell us!
It's not much at all!

Answer, answer!
Do we have some control?

Now she's staring in a mirror
in a bathroom down the hall
The picture blurs as her eyes feel wet and hot

A colleague walks in and asks
"How are are you?"
She turns her head and replies,
"I'm fine"

I'm FINE

I'M FINE

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from Smile, You Did Your Best, released September 29, 2012

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Puddleton Pasadena, California

A folk/ band from Pasadena!!!! Now making music under "Kara's Walk Home"

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