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about

"A song about learning to hold your tongue for fear of sounding stupid, or uncool, or too cool, or anti-social. About self-doubt and the impossibility of owning a house, and the way precariousness becomes plain boring once you are too old to dream any romance around it. And most importantly, about how we are trapped within this unbearable space with no way to communicate what we feel. Because unsatisfied with our money and attention and time, capitalism has come for everything else too. The song’s title offers a textbook example of the way in which human words and feelings are commodified and in turn reduced to mush."

- Jon Doyle, Various Small Flames

lyrics

If you build it they will come
Tell that shit to anyone
Who's ever tried to build a house into a home
With pickup sticks and chewing gum

How come people who throw stones
Always have the coolest homes
Maybe I'm the kind of person who buys pillows that say
“Live. Laugh. Love.”

Everything I do is dumb
I don't feel like anyone
I don't think you're hearing me
Born too late to own property
Born too early
To get away with anything fun

This song is dumb
But at least it’s not offending anyone
I'm practicing not saying things that I'll regret
Now are we having fun?
ummmm

This part of the song is a placeholder
To save myself from saying something stupid
If you don't wanna be my friend
I don't blame you that's probably smart
But if you don't like this song

Why don’t you just rip out my heart
Why don't you just tear it apart
I’m too young to own property
It's too late to be anything but ordinary

Live Laugh Love
I put the pillow over my face
Live Laugh Love
And I just scream into the lace
Don't worry I'm just having fun
Hope I'm not bugging anyone

Cause everything I do is
And everything I say is
I don’t feel like anyone
Born too late to own property
It’s too late to be anything
And everything I say is
But at least I’m not offending anyone
I’m practicing not saying things that I’ll regret

credits

from Real poetry is always about plants and birds and trees and the animals and milk and honey breathing in the pink but real life is behind a screen, track released July 19, 2023
Written, performed, and produced by Katie McTigue
Lead guitar and bass by Ben Krock
Mixed and mastered by Dylan Ganz

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Pacing San Jose, California

Pacing is the songwriting and recording project of Katie McTigue. McTigue’s writing style has been described as “tongue firmly planted in cheek” (Surviving the Golden Age, 2022), an “off-kilter and wonderfully weird world” (CLOUT, 2022), and “I don’t get it” (multiple sources). Despite her safety net of colorful characters, jokes, and metaphors, the real her always manages to slip in somewhere. ... more

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