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The Kid and I signed a million-dollar-make-you-famous recording contract with Capitol Records when we were 28, and everything went to shit soon thereafter. This song reads like it was written by someone with a time machine that only sees over our shoulders, except I’m allergic to avocado, and sober. (Wellll… California sober…) Seems like a good place to start.

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I am a full fledged, grown-up adult
I'm tryin' make a dent, I’m tryin' to get a result
I'm holed up in a Hollywood hotel suite
Tequila to drink and avocado to eat

They got all kinds of victories and lots of downfalls
They got drugs in the rugs and ghosts in the walls
Starlets in the lobby that can make a man drool
Blood on the curtains and a phone by the pool

Well I never did see so many TV stars
And I never did see so many rented cars
I never did see so many desperate eyes
And I never did hear so many bold faced lies

When I was ten years old, I was alive
At the Benedict Canyon down on Hutton Drive
Well now I'm right back in my old backyard
And I'm tryin' to get a billboard on the boulevard
I'm tryin' to get a billboard on the boulevard

Well I never thought I'd see the age of twenty-five
And it's been twenty-eight years now that I've been alive
And in a matter of months I will be thirty years old
And the apprehension that I feel can hardly be told

I am a full fledged, grown-up adult
I'm tryin' make a dent, I’m tryin' to get a result
I'm holed up in a Hollywood hotel suite
Tequila to drink and avocado to eat
Tequila to drink and avocado to eat

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from Lose Your Illusion I (For L​.​A​.​), released October 7, 2022
Written by Loudon S. Wainwright III.

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OTHERPEACE Chicago, Illinois

AKA Matt Clark. Singer & songwriter. Guitar player for White/Light and Pinebender. Ex-Joan of Arc and Love of Everything. Musical contributor to This American Life.

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