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Austin

from Middle Man by Old Coast

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I'm sick and I'm tired of working so hard.
I wake up each day to scrape the snow off the car, then I head into work and I think about Austin. Another 10 hour shift just spent avoiding my bosses.
And then I show up to early and my boss is complaining
of the hours work and the overtime that I'm making
but there's no sense in changing, I'll keep it the same cause if I show up on time then they complain that I'm late.
I'm sick of busting my back just to keep them content. Making money like that you're barely paying the rent, but if you keep it on task until the end of the day
you get a pat on the back instead of getting a raise.
The money I make goes to the beer that I'm drinking, and the bartender knows me and she saved me a seat. She fills up my glasses just as fast as I drink them,
so I tip her in cash as a way of beating the system.
I've got s a firecracker loosened in my mind and any second now it's gonna blow me away. I'm gonna get lit and I'm gonna get high.
I'm gonna blow up and say
"I'm heading down to Austin today."
Well it could be worse, I could be married with kids and then in bed and at home instead of taking a piss at a bar in a parking lot, ready to ditch,
but then I look for my car and i don't know where it is.
Well I wasn't born lucky, I wasn't born rich.
I learned pretty early not to hope for the best
cause if you're gonna get in you better be on the list because we're all getting fucked and that's the way that it is.
I've got s a firecracker loosened in my mind and any second now it's gonna blow me away. I'm gonna get lit and I'm gonna get high.
I'm gonna blow up and say
"I'm heading down to Austin today."

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from Middle Man, released August 25, 2018

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Old Coast Seattle, Washington

Seattle-based Old Coast melds a spirited and diverse mix of whisky drinking desert songs with driving indie rhythms and hard working, old time harmonies, to create a unique brand of Pacific Northwest Americana.

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