Sweet Rejection

from Beautiful Things: The Deluxe Edition by Austin Archer

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lyrics

Call it bad luck
Call it a self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess
Call it a shame
Call it good old-fashioned
Lack of talent
I could really not care less
Chris says it ain’t happened
Cuz I’m not playin enough shows
Whether he is right or not
I don’t believe that anybody really knows

Oh, sweet rejection
You might be my oldest friend
So how can one so well acquainted
Still retain such thin skin
There goes another year
Waiting for the tide to come in

You get old
Thinking that the best is yet to come
You forget
You’re not in control of when you’re done
Could be from a stray bullet
From a fight five blocks away
Your dreaming about tomorrow
Thinking what you should have done
Yesterday

Oh, sweet rejection
My familiar little prayer
Trying to imagine what my life
Would be if you weren’t there
Here goes another year
Keepin’ it all up in the air

The thing is I
Kind of think I like it
Being fortune’s favorite fool
Makes for one hell of an excuse
There’s an incentive to stay
Out here on the run
And trying to wrap a line
Around that big old burning sun
Because if you can see
That I’m not done
Then you might just agree
And between and me

We can call it bad luck
Or a deterministic immutable law
Call it anything
Just don’t you dare say it’s anyone’s fault

Oh, sweet rejection
Have you come to sing me home?
I always thought much better of you
In times when I was not alone
Here comes another year
Making it all up as I go

credits

from Beautiful Things: The Deluxe Edition, released June 3, 2022
Music/Lyrics: Austin Archer
Mix/Master: Chris Bjornn, Marmalade Music

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Austin Archer Salt Lake City, Utah

Austin Archer is an artist from Salt Lake City, UT, living in LA. He has been writing and recording music since he was 15 years old. More music can be heard at chthonicdeadhouseband.bandcamp.com usthieves.bandcamp.com
bosstv.bandcamp.com
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