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A Scrap of Paper and a Handshake

from The Songs I Actually Play by A Bird Among Men

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They say high school is the best time of our lives
But I have spent the past four years thinking of just how exactly I
Could get out of doing anything exceptional
So rather than loving everything, I find it all regrettable.

I never did anything to set myself apart
Inhibitions and excuses were by bodyguards
If I could do it all again
I would not have backed myself right into this corner, right into this pen.

I should've joined the football team
But the other kids would have killed me
And I should've started taking art
But I can hardly draw a pie chart
I should've tried out for a play
I say all this to my dismay
Yeah I should've done so much more
But as it stands, high school was a bore

Well my freshman year I did,
Actually how about we skip ahead a little bit
Straight to my sophomore year where I definitely did much more
Actually you could call me an activity conquistador.

Yes I did so many things
So many things I wrote a song about them, just had to sing.
Oh, you want to know just what they were?
Hang on a sec, I just remembered, yo no hablo ingles monsieur.

I should've joined the football team
But the other kids would have killed me
And I should've started taking art
But I can hardly draw a pie chart
I should've tried out for a play
I say all this to my dismay
Yeah I should've done so much more
But as it stands, high school was a bore

When I was a junior well I sang for some people I guess
I still did nothing nonetheless
Now I am a senior standing here
I guess getting involved will have to wait until I go to college next year

I should've joined the football team
But the other kids would have killed me
And I should've started taking art
But I can hardly draw a pie chart
I should've tried out for a play
I say all this to my dismay
Yeah I should've done so much more
But as it stands, high school was a bore

High school was a bore
And I'm done with it.

Chords:
It's all power chords woo.

Intro/Verse: (E Bno5 A
C# B A) x2
(C# B A
E Bno5 A) x2

Chorus: E A C# A

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from The Songs I Actually Play, released June 30, 2016

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A Bird Among Men Bath, Maine

ABAM is Robyn Crews and I make
tongue in cheek, self deprecating folk punk from mid-coast Maine!

I started this project because I don't have enough friends to make a real punk band.

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