SO FAR SO GOOD (2021) - LYRICS
All guitars, bass, drums, synths, and vocals performed by Mad Marshall.
CYNICAL
I knew someone whose roommate stole her cream and sugar
And so she started drinking her coffee black
Now I’m not saying I’m super cynical
But lately I’ve been feeling a lot like that
Cause some people just wanna take, take, take
And knock you out of their way
And there ain’t nothing you can say
That’ll knock no sense in their brain
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You can save the stories cause you’ve had more than your quota
Bout how no one cared when you were having a bad day
If you have a grievance you can call customer service
They’ll be sure to nod along with all the things you say
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Talk too much you’re just a dime a dozen
And if you say you care you’re an old cliche
I’m not saying I’m super cynical
But lately everyone can get the fuck away
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Cause some people just wanna take, take, take
And knock you out of their way
And there ain’t nothing you can say
That’ll knock no sense in their brain
MAD
You’re too mad, you’re too quiet
Too this, too that, we don’t like it
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Why do they tell you what they can’t tell you?
Why do they get to dictate your value?
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Said you’re too dumb, you’re too dangerous
Not good enough to deserve explaining
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Why do they tell you what they can’t tell you?
Why do they get to decide your value?
Things are always changing but it’s not changing
Why don’t we do better, it’s so deflating
FINE/FINITE
Work to not be in want, seemed to work too well
Others I lean on for a magic spell
Call myself a creative but not create
As if the years reveal truth, I lie in wait
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Cause it’s all fine
Cause it’s all finite
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All the friends and folks that I’ve left behind
With a million futures I’ll never find
Be so easy to say I just lost my mind
Be so easy but easy don’t make it right
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Cause it’s all fine
Cause it’s all finite
Cause it’s all fine
Cause it’s all finite
WORSE THINGS
I can’t seem to get a read
The book just burns away when I see it
Am I too close or am I too far away?
Would you blink if I floated off into space?
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I can’t make you feel if you don’t feel
And asking tends to tell the truth
But what if you feel the things that mean you can’t?
And here we’re stuck not knowing the answers to that
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Just take your time for me
You’re stronger than you think
Afraid you’re not enough, that you’ll end up alone
But there are worse things
LITTLE SOMETHING
Feel a little something creepin
In the corner of my mind
Every time I see you leaving
But I let you do it one more time
Oh one more time
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There’s something in the way you’re staring
Feels like I’m talking out of line
The moment that I should be sparing
For another perfect time
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But what do you want, and why’d you choose me?
Keep fighting the war for keeping the peace
And why do you love all that I hate
But it’s too late, I can’t keep you away
I can’t keep you away
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Oh it’s a little something fateful
I said I’m never looking back
I pull my chair up to the table
Find you in front of me at last
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So now we’re talking like we’re old friends
And laughing at each other’s jokes
Just waiting for the door to open
I’ve always known you’re just a ghost
So why don’t you do what you’re told?
MY MY
My my
What’s the neighbor doing today
Oh look
He’s calling out over the porch
To a bird
He tells it to stay but it flies off
Without a word
Suddenly he’s getting the gun
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My my
Mmm
My my
Mmm
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She called out
To the man, without looking up
From her book
Said why you gotta kill this bird?
He shook his head
And walked inside while she read,
“It’s man’s nature
to be in conflict.”
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My my
Mmm
My my
Mmm
VIBE
There was always something wrong feeling bout being in my skin
Wake up every day and say goddamn is this me again
Like to say I’m better now than some ambiguous then
But it seems I just do circles when I turn the bend
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All this time I’ve been tryna get away, get away
I am the only person I allow to waste my time
You’re just tryna kill my vibe
All those things I know I could never do, never say
Look in the mirror boy you know there’s only one to blame
So I just crack a smile
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I’ve been known to take strange comfort in bad things happening
Though now I say it out loud not sure it’s true
Think I’m just more fine the weirder life gets
Rob me of my comfort zone through circumstance
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All this time I’ve been tryna get away, get away
I am the only person I allow to waste my time
You’re just tryna kill my vibe
All those things I know I could never do, never say
Look in the mirror boy you know there’s only one to blame
So I just crack a smile
BUSY DOING NOTHING
I wake up feeling everything and nothing at once
The day's just started but I'm already done
Everything was clear last night but now I'm drunk
I came to the party but I missed the fun
Stumbled in the bathroom feeling overcome
Looked in the mirror said glad I'm not the only one
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Always missing what I never had
Hungry for times I've never been
How can someone be so happy and sad
Follow all the rules and yet I never win
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I walk out the door with nowhere to go
Hours to burn and a heart to throw
Everything was real back there but now I don’t know
I came to town but I missed the show
Stumble in the bar like I lost my ghost
Look in your eyes, I can see you think I’m off my rope
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Busy doing nothing day after day
The more I stand still, the more my head spins
A lot on my mind but nothing to say
Follow all the rules and yet I never win
SO LONG HONEY
I used to think
That as long as we were honest with ourselves it’d work out somehow
But it don’t look that way
When I wonder every day
Where you are
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Don’t get me wrong
Maybe it’s not too late
Maybe things can change
But we’ve let it go so long
I’m running out of ways
To pretend that it’s okay
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So so long, honey
I’d wish you happiness
If I thought, there was something for you
Oh what a shame
I knew one day you’d be gone
The moment that I met you
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But it’s not all bad
Oh didn’t we have fun?
Sad to lose you, but glad to have had you
And one day
When this is all done
Remember that I loved you
SUZIE
Sorry Suzie, we left you out of all the fun
So now it’s your turn to sing your tune for everyone
You’re green blue and white, always watching stars at night
Sorry Suzie, one day we will get it right
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Hey
Are you okay?
I’m your friend today
That’s I why I say
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Sorry Suzie, we left you out of all the fun
So now it’s your turn to sing your tune for everyone
You’re green blue and white, always watching stars at night
Sorry Suzie, one day we will get it right
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Hey
Let’s make a deal
I’ll be there
If you’re there for me
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Sorry Suzie, we left you out of all the fun
So now it’s your turn to sing your tune for everyone
You’re green blue and white, always watching stars at night
Sorry Suzie, one day we will get it right
CHANGE
Won’t you come along with us tonight?
It won’t be the same without you here
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It won’t always be an easy road
Still it’s what you do for those you love
Know that what you’re feeling’s not for naught
Having someone there can change it all
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Won’t you come along with us tonight?
It won’t be the same without you here
It won’t always be an easy road
Change is hard sometimes
GOOD, BAD, AND BEAUTIFUL
The early days seem so far away now when
Everything was new everything was fun
But boy I get all in my head
And soon I end up making a mess
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And I can’t stay here
I can’t remain here
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I try to be good to the people I love
So frustrated! when I can’t seem to get it right
But character development ain’t like the movies sometimes you go backwards or stay the same
And sometimes you just wake up a little different every day
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And I can’t stay here
I can’t remain here
And I can’t stay here
I can’t remain here
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Real life ain’t like the movies, kid
The good times aren’t always what you think they were
Good men and bad men don’t exist
And it’s sad when things end but you can make peace and you can be friends