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Another Side

from Sometimes a Notion by McKinnon

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another side

this story takes place in 1964 and like the best
it's set in new york city
our hero is a boy named johnny: seventeen
and feeling free
johnny and his friends keep their circle tight
they are children of privilege one and all
they spend several hours inside of record stores
and then search for rubes to buy them alcohol
you can tell that they're cool, you can check their cards
well, they're living freewheelin' shoulda seen 'em when the times changed hard

johnny sends a note across the class to mary and she
reads it aloud to her friends
it says meet me at the gaslight at a quarter to eight and we can see
phil ochs hang his head
see, they really liked those headline songs
they don't got no time for love
and they all talked for hours about
how everybody's got the same blood
you can see that they're part of the modern moral guard
well, they loved freewheelin' shoulda seen 'em when the times changed hard

now summer's burning strong, manhattan she's so sweaty, oh the city
belongs to horny teens
walking down fourth street johnny feels like a king, standing
next to his queen
he takes a puff of grass, he checks out mary's ass
he's pretty sure he's gonna have a good night
a thousand miles south they just found chaney's body but
that's not gonna bother him tonight
he knows there's too many black bodies in the graveyard
but he's living freewheelin' shoulda seen him when his dick got hard

four days later, johnny he's at mary's and they're smoking
next to the player
got a brand new record from their favourite man: their jesus
and their creator
but they don't like this other side of him
how could he write so small?
see, an album's worth of mystery love songs
just ain't worth nothing at all
their hero went and left 'em, he showed such disregard
well, they loved freewheelin' shoulda seen 'em when the times changed hard
but they're too cool for this other side, don't like this romantic blowhard

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from Sometimes a Notion, released November 1, 2018

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