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Summer (produced by Snack One)

from Perfunctory by Eliquate

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Vacation is a state of mind, it's all I ever wanted. For some reason I had in mind it happened after college.

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The curtain draws to show a stage set just like a classroom
The children at the desks the teacher starts to ask who
Would like to read today's assignment in the back two
Hands go up in silence while the others try to act cool
The script calls the dialogue by drowned by the inner thoughts
Of one kid in particular as a spotlight makes sure what is lost,
Is the sense of innocents the voice is all grown up
It then delivers this speech like it atones us
soon marks Another summer,
another place in time that in time will hold me under
Inclined to fight my number and I don't run for cover
I got that from the kid in me if he was not that stubborn
Summer was a time to escape all of my problems
Now it's simply marked by June and ends sometime in august
Vacation is a state of mind it's all I ever wanted
For some reason I had in mind it happened after college

Lights go out hands rush changing walls and desks a such
All is silhouetted in blue light it with just enough
Of red return the actors the lights come up abrupt
We see a room of 20 something's finger pen to paper touch

Taking notes from the book their professor had wrote
The spotlight falls on a young man looking up he starts to quote
Soon marks another summer, I'll be going home
Couldn't wait to show my mom and dad exactly how much I had grown
For the last time after this I'm done defining purpose
When ahead lied my potential 110 percent
Of my attention focused on becoming a person
Back when slogans in p.e. We're nothing more than words
Friends were so important your values you kept in lists
Seems I see them having children and know what I am missing
We're once lied empathy now a sense of envy
Decisions of my identity seem a lot more heavy
Now I'm too old to even try and blame this on my youth
It's not a form of growth this is me becoming who
I will be be it not for the rest of my life
The was the point thati assumed I had finally got it right
I was wrong admits the chorus as the student gets distracted
Speaking on behalf of my future I have crafted
I can't say for certain I was there closes the curtain
Intermission snacks getting ready for the third wind

Spotlight curtain shut draws open sure enough
A lone standing sole it's the kid we saw all grown up
With look of disappointment he can no longer run from
Taking off his coat he says hello summer has come
And there is no great celebration to look forward to
All there is is me and I'm sorry if this is boring you
I used see the change of the season brings great things
So much time wasted I was just waiting p
For what? For this to stand here and talk to you
Explain in public forum that I did not all I could do
So I'm sorry you the fourth wall and if this seems cheep

But all justification for giving me what I need.
Speaking for my past for the failure that I achieved

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from Perfunctory, released July 17, 2015

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“If all we have are dreams, then dream big,” spits Elliot Wright, frontman and philosopher for the five-piece, California Beat Rock troubadours, Eliquate, on their latest EP, Who The F*ck is Eliquate? Packing an arsenal of rhymes that range from satirical social commentary and inner-soul searching to all-out, shake-your-ass-‘til-the floor-is-wet jams... ... more

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