"Can't this wait 'til I'm old? Can't I live while I'm young?"
That is not a subtle lyric. It is not a good lyric, arguably. It is a rock and roll bumper sticker and I do not care, because I heard it at a show in the fall of 2012 in the middle of eighteen months of the worst professional misery of my life and it landed like a diagnosis.
I gave notice on a Tuesday. My manager asked what changed and I said "perspective," because "a song" felt insane to say out loud in a conference room.
It was a song. It's fine. Sometimes the bumper sticker is correct.
3 comments
- Otis Kingsley
This is the best thing I've read on here. Thank you for writing it down.
- Gordon Deitrich
The detail about the poncho is what makes this. Perfect.
- Cass Whitfield
I've told a version of this story badly for twenty years. You told it right.
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