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Sweet Macedonia II (2020)

from Hindsight by Year Without a Summer

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I want to go back to where I came in
I want to regain some optimism
The kid who wrote this song, I’m thinking of him
This evening
I have his four-tracks and his exercise books
I even retained some of his looks
And here I am, stealing his decades-old hooks
This evening
I’m not saying he found everything came easily
He had it as hard, even harder, than me
He didn’t really know himself or anybody,
Like any 14-year-old
I wouldn’t swap me for the teenage me
And be bad at talking to girls and chemistry
But I knew then that my whole life was in front of me
Not behind me

I want to be glad for the life I’ve been given
And for knowing there’s places to go more exciting than Lytham
And say “You’ve done me wrong but you are forgiven”
And mean it
Even if I’m recording still in my home studio
Even if I never made it, or got to turn pro
Even if I never got better at piano
I want to be comfortable
Sometimes my teenhood feels like a foreign country
Which I left years ago but which still affects me
And it’s no longer UN-recognised and never will be
But I remember it, maybe fondly

Goodbye Macedonia
Though you are far away from me
You remain here in my heart
My sweet Macedonia.

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from Hindsight, released May 1, 2020

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Year Without a Summer Coventry, UK

Beach-shack post-punk. Solo play in the bedroom. Sailed from St Annes, washed up in Coventry. Interests include apocalypse survival, false memories, moths.

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