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Impostor Syndrome

from Twelve Months by Curious Quail

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July's entry into the Twelve Months project! The randomized restrictions for this song were:
Key: F#Major
Structure: Verse / Chorus can't be same time signature
Vibe: "Acing a test you didn't prepare for at all and you're convinced something is wrong with the grade".

lyrics

The day was off to a good start
A lead, a sale, a raise
but brain fills with intrusive thoughts
And all good things erased

Someone compliments your work
It makes you hesitate
You know somehow that shoe will drop
And kill you while you wait

But
Hold on
This isn’t you talkin'
For so long
You were raised to believe that your brain can't be wrong but it’s
So wrong
You gotta stop listenin'
And find your worth

Every win comes with a shock
Time and time again
Ticking borrowed time till you're
Abandoned by your friends

Cuz someday they will find you out
Someday they'll see you
For this bed of trash you are
Who cannot follow through
You cannot follow through

But
Hold on
This isn’t you talkin'
For so long
You were raised to believe that your brain can't be wrong but it’s
So wrong
You gotta stop listenin'
And find your worth

Block it out
You need to some how
And when you're down
Know that
There's only you and you're good enough
And you've earned all these things that you're good at
There's only you and you're good enough
You'll be the best you, you're good enough
Wait and see
Wait and see

credits

from Twelve Months, released February 12, 2019
Recorded at The Quailcave (San José, California) and The Desert Art Colony (Palm Springs, California)
Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Mike Shirley-Donnelly at the Desert Art Colony
Music by Mike Shirley-Donnelly
Lyrics by Mike Shirley-Donnelly

Joey Guthrie - Drums
Mike Shirley-Donnelly - Vocals, Guitars, Gameboys, Wurlitzer

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Curious Quail New Haven, Connecticut

Curious Quail is an orchestral + chiptune indie collective with members in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Pacific Northwest and southern New England that mix fuzzy guitar rock, orchestral instrumentation and music made with Nintendo Gameboys.

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