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Description: goodbye college town :')

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goodbye college town :')

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The grass keeps growing I can’t bring myself to mow it
I cant bring myself to grin
Walked down a strangers street know I was born with 2 left feet
cobblestones aren’t helping

Magnolia petals stained my new white shoes
Congratulations feels like bad news
Life is happening faster than I can catch my breath

So I hit the ground running and I don’t look back

Oh, I pictured all these days years prior
Saw me graduated, Wise and old.
Not a dead beat suburb street beer day drinking
In this College town gone cold.

Smell lilac trees and Mary Jane
We’re all sober on loneliness
Cooped up in haunted 20th century homes

Wasting away while our “good old days” unfold

Maybe its that life is all counting
The grades till we got here, the days till we’re moving
Classes and credits and Bachelors of sad memories

Got my pockets stuffed full of regrets
The sun crowing 4 years came and went
I found coffee and lost and found a few friends

I wanna press these days between pages and save them

And I know that I cant see a minute of the future
The trains rolling by a tree falling on the front steps
A last closing shift a tassel that don’t feel final
But, we do what we can and do what we will
I’m sure we’ll all end up where we’re supposed to fall
I heard somewhere, that so long just means “see you later”

I’ll see you later

I’m scared straight to step foot outta here
Move across the country for a dead end career
Guitar slinging, half-playing empty-brained son of a gun

I’m a failure at 20 cause I’m not 16
No plan for tomorrow, should be booked till 3
falling behind my class faster than I wanna be

I’ll never know what I don’t if no body will teach me

I’m sure we’ll cross in a city somewhere
And not recognize each others new tattoos and hair
I hope to god you’re not stuck in a 9 to 5

I hope the sun’s out and it’s a beautiful day
And we can still talk and laugh and have plenty to say
Talk of the dreams we have now in the achieved sense

I won’t miss this town, but I’ll miss my friends.

It’s all come to an end.
It’s all come to an end.

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released May 7, 2021
emily james franke

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Emily Franke Chicago, Illinois

Emily Franke is an independent singer-songwriter and producer based in Chicago. Releasing singles from her closet studio she blends poetic lyrics about personal relationships into devastating folk songs and the occasional angry pop song.

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