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So this song is pretty old, I actually wrote it almost two years ago. When I was 16, I found myself being too stressed to function. When I had even a sliver of free time, I'd waste it in bed or doing nothing, just to get refreshed on what it felt like to do nothing. After a while, I realized I hadn't picked up my guitar or wrote anything in what felt like months. I tried playing it and felt a pain in my fingers I hadn't felt in years. It was because my calluses were gone from not playing anything in a long time. In a sense, it felt like a metaphor for hard work being lost. Everything that's meaningful to you can be easily taken away by priorities and obligations to work for something you don't want just to ensure stability and approval from society. It was kinda sad to me, I didn't want to lose myself, I wanted to get back into writing and playing guitar, a lot more. So that night I wrote this.

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Writing and Calluses
They symbolize all of this
all that I am, the only thing I'll ever be
But all of these calluses
Have been replaced by healthy skin
from the time that I've lost, if I got some back
It'd be like Christmas in October for me

We'd sit around and talk about old times before we grew up and changed
We'd settle down, I wish you could rewind the timelines
Cause I feel like nothing today, and I feel like

Maybe these calluses will grow back
Maybe I'll start to forget what is wrong with the world
Maybe these calluses will grow back
I don't want to start to forget what I could have been

When I was a little kid
I thought about losing my grip on everything else
I've gotten that wish
And I've gotten so sick of all of these distractions
They determine the other part of me
The necessities are getting so boring
And I know that I've lost my grip

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from Repel The World Away (Demos 2017), released July 7, 2017

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Milo Duhn Buffalo, New York

Alternative artist from Buffalo NY. Friendly neighborhood saltine trying his best.
Check me out on Facebook and Instagram. Email-duhnsongs@gmail

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