Name: Unrequited
Duration: P00H02M19S
Description: Another tribute song to Jack Kerouac. I stole lines from The Sea Is My Brother and Maggie Cassidy. I also wrote it with the book, Drinking In The Snooker Club, by Waguih Ghali, in mind. It's a song about not knowing why, but being completely at odds with those around you. About not knowing why, but some nights just seem to be preordained misery. Like there's something in the air.

Unrequited

from Baritone Cats by LAWNMOWER MAN

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Another tribute song to Jack Kerouac. I stole lines from The Sea Is My Brother and Maggie Cassidy. I also wrote it with the book, Drinking In The Snooker Club, by Waguih Ghali, in mind. It's a song about not knowing why, but being completely at odds with those around you. About not knowing why, but some nights just seem to be preordained misery. Like there's something in the air.

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I wanted to tell off everyone, but couldn't remember why. I wanted to expose us all as careless beasts, but couldn't remember why. I wanted to live. I wanted to be everything at the same time. I howled and howled, but no one gave a shit. I discovered that I was holding an empty bottle as we climbed up the stoop, so I turned around and laughed and hurled it far up the empty street. When the glass shattered, and when the girls all screamed, I wanted to say that's what I thought about all the talk everyone had made. Unrequited love, we catch the world unprepared for us. In brief, we were doomed to an unsuccessful night, I never knew entirely why.

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from Baritone Cats, released January 15, 2014
Jeff "Math-metal piano solos" Meszaros - piano
Jayme Hagen - guitar, vocals

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