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early retirement

by Thick Red Wine

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    My new album Early Retirement on pretty red 12" vinyl! Also very sweet & soft premium NextLevel unisex yellow tee or women's racerback tank with a beautiful burrito on it. Tanks run a little small so order a size up if you want a flowy one : ) Includes liner notes with lyrics, 2 stickers and 2 postcards!

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    My new album Early Retirement on pretty red 12" vinyl! Includes liner notes with lyrics

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1.
i want to move to the suburbs buy a house maintain a lawn plant a little garden i want to spend the whole day outside under the sun i want to spend the night i want to spend the nights with you i want to spend the night i want to spend the nights with you i want to spend the nights with you 401Ks, equity accrual liquid assets and real estate income net balances and tax loopholes lay me down on a lounge chair ‘til i get sunburned crushin’ beers grilling burgers i want to wake up early and go for a run smell the leaves on the trees i want to be under a redwood tree i want to grow old with you under all the big trees
2.
pay attention to the small things like making my bed cleaning my room writing songs about ex girlfriends when my friends from the northeast call i tell them i’m learning to surf i’m not learning to surf, we make jokes about weed then we hang up the phone these days i eat burritos alone too much eating by yourself all the time really kind of sucks when my friends from texas call they say the food here is better and we bullshit bout the weather they promise they will come visit when my friends from the midwest call they seem glad i’m alive i haven’t seen some of them in so long i don’t know why a bar of dark chocolate was the highlight of my day i’ve got nothing to say and i’ve got no one to say it to it’s four o clock in the morning and i can’t sleep wonder if i made the right choice leaving the people who love me why am i always starting over? new cities, same street names i will find peace or i will just eat more burritos in my dreams i am a pop star making music for the masses in real life i play dive bars for free drink passes pay attention to the small things
3.
failure 03:53
i tried bikram yoga it didn’t work i tried eating organic it didn’t work and i’ve failed several juice cleanses they made me feel sick couldn’t cut it with the patches never could quite stick failure is okay cause i know we gotta keep moving on yeah i know we gotta keep moving on i tried moving to texas it didn’t last i tried moving to california but i missed my friends and i tried to call you you did not pick up so i called a second time double calling someone is a sign of love failure is okay cause i know we gotta keep moving on yeah i know we gotta keep moving on then i fell in love with you we all make mistakes i guess you dreamt me away again one less nightmare to escape now i've learned home is not a concept it’s having the same address more than a few months a few years at best failure is okay cause i know we gotta keep moving on yeah i know we gotta keep moving on
4.
cover band plays marvin gaye and tammi “aint nothing like the real thing” and it seems kind of wrong tonight it feels alright i’ve got you by my side my high school spanish failed to find the right words i never found them i never found them spanish restaurant, we order a pitcher of sangria they gave us table wine and soda but this time i don’t get pissed with you i’m in bliss i get caught up in your kiss the years roll on, i still sing my songs i’m still taking off my shirt waiting is the worst waiting is the worst five years passed, i brought you to san francisco we stayed in bed all day or at least all morning i lost track of time couldn’t get you off my mind uncertainty has followed me through seven different cities the fear that you’ve been missing something perhaps someone someone who makes you know like i want everyone to know you make me know you make me know you make me know for sure love is a strange and wondrous thing
5.
truck nuts and vanity plates plotting a comeback through midwestern states laughing with friends over beers in the sun start to feel grounded, want to hug everyone hike all day alone; give in to mosquitoes suckling your fingers like frozen taquitos walk out on the lake but you slip up on the rocks deep cuts on your heel—blood seeps through your socks pull over to the shoulder when a bird hits the dash cry for a little while—then rid the car of trash truck nuts and vanity plates signs for no vacancy flicker into space pull in to the plaza to rest up your eyes think up all the ways that everything must die sudden or slow—possibilities endless surrender your fears until you’re defenseless the stench of rock bottom in rawlings, wyoming an arbys parking lot lost under the gloaming food poisoning i know is fleeting at best but indiana almost killed me at that pizza hut express truck nuts and vanity plates roads don’t give answers; your tires will deflate when you least expect them to in the dead of the night it rains all the time now, can’t stop staring at the light pitch black in missoula, should’ve woke up at dawn see the sun, climb the mountains sleepless & withdrawn you can’t be one with nature—it’s all just a blur a photo for tourists, women covered in fur animals set free too scared to leave their cages i've been burning through candles counting empty pages truck nuts and vanity plates long lonesome highway—i can't stay awake count down the hours til i run out of gas sing to the ether; let the spirits unmask redemption is petty; it’s never enough adventure is reckless; i bought fingerless gloves at an old gas station in the middle of nowhere where the fuck i am going? well now nobody knows where i wouldn’t put it past me to stay east through the winter or get back in my car, drive til my knuckles break and splinter
6.
making plans 01:20
making plans i’ll be damned making plans making plans i’ll be damned i’ll be damned making plans i’ll be damned i’ll be damned making plans i’ll be damned i’ll be damned making lists of things i won’t do making promises i know i won’t keep checking real estate listings in seven different cities not learning a single goddamn useful thing putting things that i’ve been meaning to watch into a netflix queue i don’t want to watch anything i don’t want to do anything i just want to call you and hear your voice
7.
focus 02:50
grinding of teeth, forgetting how to sleep when the little blue pills don’t seem to sink in escape to distant grandeur with pitiful poor candor tell yourself the secrets you are afraid of make time to focus on the good things the ones that stay the same at least a little while take a break from change make time to focus on the good things the ones you can grasp at least a little while get up off your ass bring me a bottle, i’ll write you a novel cast spells into sweet abyss my head ain’t right, get me home tonight avoid all the back roads and the bridges make time to focus on your good friends the ones that stick around at least a little while stop leaving town make time to focus on your good friends the ones who won’t take your shit at least a little while let them pull you out of this i can't shake dreams of freckled little children cute redhead girls traipsing through the corn through the butterflies the butterflies and the sweet, sweet corn you can give in to the good things the ones you’re in control of at least a little while don’t fuck around with love you can give in to the good things sleep when you’re dead at least a little while change the voices in your head
8.
vacation 03:46
you can’t live your life like you’re constantly on vacation you can’t live your life alone you can’t live your life like you’re constantly on vacation you can’t live your life alone filled out one too many change of address forms forget where the government thinks i live cut across the northern half of this beautiful yet fucked up country you start to appreciate its flaws this year i will buy a house—try to settle down a bit spend less money on my music and relationships but i don’t know if it’s the right move to stay put you can’t live your life like you’re constantly on vacation you can’t live your life alone you can’t live your life like you’re constantly on vacation you can’t live your life alone call out the demons, all the fucked up shit from your childhood let them in, then let them go i don’t miss getting fucked up in parking lots of supermarkets deep in the suburbs of south jersey well that superfresh or what’s left of it well it’s still there and so am i in many different ways you can’t live your life like you’re constantly on vacation you can’t live your life alone you can’t live your life like you’re constantly on vacation there’s a right time to come home i’m coming home

credits

released November 9, 2018

acoustic, electric guitars + bass + piano + vocals: mike wojciechowski
drums: pat brier
additional piano: marc baker
organ, keyboard: matt schimelfenig
group vocals: all my friends

recorded, engineered, co-produced by matt schimelfenig at miner street studios in philadelphia.
mastered by ryan schwabe in philadelphia.
original artwork by amy sands.
all songs written, arranged, produced by mike wojciechowski

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