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You Need Better Friends

from Twelve Months by Curious Quail

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June's entry into the Twelve Months project! The randomized restrictions for this song were:
Instrumentation: No Full Drumkit (Aux percussion ok),
Structure: No Prechoruses (Verse must go directly to Chorus)
Vibe: "Despondent"

lyrics

Lookin out the window
You see the sun's up
It was all a dream perhaps
Colors are all desaturated
Were they always like this or
Did you just finally snap
And you're better off alone than with people who
belittle you
And gaslight you
And make you feel unsafe
Why spend 3 months with someone who can't be
Bothered to stop saying transphobic shit
And you try
You fool
You try to find
the good in them still

But you're free do this your way
And you're free to try till your heart just gives out
And you're free to learn the hard way
Some people are just assholes
And they don't deserve your time

The very next day
you feel lighter than air
Your friends can't believe what you said
It's somehow wrong to tell people
That they're killing your soul
And scarring your head
Cuz you're better off alone than with people who
Are spreading hate
And live afraid
Of those with different skin
Why waste a breath on someone who can't be
Bothered to stop being misogynist trash
And they try
Those fools
They try to
Tell you they're good deep inside

You were free to do this your way
You were free to try till your heart just gave out
And you had to learn the hard way
Some people are just assholes
And they don't wanna change
Some people are just assholes
And you don't owe 'em anything

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

Alan Chen - Violin
Josh Hotlotz - Bass
Joey Guthrie - Percussion, Piano
Mike Shirley-Donnelly - Vocals, Guitars, Gameboys, Wurlitzer
Delicaye Shirley-Donnelly - Vocals

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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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