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Matt Walton - Hey Me You Probably Don't Want To Hear This

from SpinTunes #13 - Round 2 by Spintunes

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Song Bio: I wondered for ages if this was too personal to post, but I decided I couldn't honestly do it without including certain things, and actually the reason I would write it in a letter to a younger me is the same reason I need to not be afraid to say it. Because the end of the song is correct. I regret not having time to completely fix the tuning in places, my tenor recorder was having a bit of a moisture related sulk and it was either a bit off in tuning or alternating squarks squeaks and silence.

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Hey me, now I’m twenty years older
I beg you attend to my song
It’s full of advice for the future
I promise this won’t take too long

I know that the future excites you
I know that you love all this tech
There’s good news and bad news on that score
But I’ll say now it’s not like Star Trek

So here is the first thing I’ll tell you
Biochemistry pays really bad
In two years you’ll swap to computing
A career that will make you quite glad

But there’s pitfalls and problems a-plenty
Just remember the number one rule
Don’t work where there isn’t a passion
For product or system or tool

Your social life’s going to get better
You’ll make new sets of friends on the way
You’re going to lose some as well
But there are more the very next day

There are things that you really must do
I one hundred percent don’t regret:
Go and make friends with the writers
And people who have cats as pets

Get head start on learning Aikido
It really is perfect for you
Not like the karate you just quit
Thoughtful and effective too

You’re going to find you like teaching
Might want to make it your career
My PhD was a failure
This path isn’t yours to adhere

And it turns out that you’re a musician
I know you don’t think that right now
I know that your sister’s much better
But you know if you think about how

She has practised and played and performed
And you’ve just not bothered at all
Of course she’s become so much better
With that three-year head start while you crawled

But here is the crux of the matter
It’s about what music you love
You need to look at traditional folk
That and baroque will fit you like a glove

Go learn how to play the recorder
It is most satisfyingly strange
And sounds good when played with conviction
Although it is lacking in range

There is one final thing I must mention
You’ve had much confusion inside
It’s not going to stop any time soon
But I can tell you now with some pride

You are gay and it doesn’t matter
To anyone vaguely smart
But just to admit it to yourself
Is an enormous weight off your heart

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from SpinTunes #13 - Round 2, released July 17, 2017

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