Weird Uncle

from No Banter by Recalculating

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Hunting the worst bars on the best streets
Where anyone's fair game, clickbait, or fresh meat
All wandering eyes, a lingering stare
Decades from a beer gut, bad taste, and gray hair

Moved out west, to a city so liveable,
Insufferably liberal (made me so miserable)
Ignore the elites, make art for the throngs!
Remember pipe dreams explode like pipe bombs

Then you wake up
One day
If you're lucky
One day

Get a real job and eat lunch at your desk
Some souped-up salad, sometimes overly dressed
Dressed agency casual, mostly in black
Wasting time trading gifs with recent college grads

Years later, overlook partners perfectly fine
Overrate yourself and underestimate time
Unmade double bed, no holiday cards or kids
God, parents never understand and they never did

Stay on this course and Darwin's mandate is dead
Embrace the Punnett square; go on a date, man, get outta your head
You understand you still drink midweek, wear Vans, and play in band?
Believe me: if you were a parent, I promise, then you'd understand

Thank god I woke up one day
Someone's weird uncle

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from No Banter, released November 5, 2018

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Recalculating New York, New York

Recalculating. Scrappy, feisty, indie(ish). Heart-on-sleeve but not sentimental, self-aware but not self-serious, and almost always grammatically correct. If you're in the tri-state area, hit us up for a show if you like what you hear!

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