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As I mentioned on the main page for Basement Demos, the lyrics for this song are taken (in some cases verbatim) from a correspondence via text between my girlfriend Katie and I. That sort of Let's Go Exploring attitude I love so much became our mantra during the summer of 2008. We still have to take a day off to get a late lunch in New England. Maybe when that happens you'll hear a SEQUEL!

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I woke up this morning with the sun trying hard
to peek its head through my tiny basement apartment windows
just to tell me it was beautiful out again;
but when he couldn't deliver,
you texted me instead.

And you told me I should leave work
just as I listened to Boy Meets Girl by Ghost Mice,
and the moment seemed surreal.

But, if I leave work, well, you've gotta leave work
so that we could drive around
to a small New England town
with our windows down,
where we could get a late lunch.

Because it's a shame that these day-to-days
have to get in the way
of such important things like these.

But we've gotta make some money to pay our bills & rent,
and we're trying hard to stay afloat
in this world that we live in.
So I sit here in a cubicle, you work in a coffee shop,
and it'd be great if we cared,
but our jobs are outta luck.

So we spend our workdays imagining adventure we'll go on,
and big or small they're wonderful,
each one worthy of song.
And if I could I'd write an album
about how in your eyes, the mirrored world seems wonderful
and always takes me by surprise.

But if I leave work, well, you've gotta leave work
so that we could run away
for a year, a month, an hour,
or even just a day.

Because it's a shame that these day-to-days
have to get in the way
of such important things like these.

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from Basement Demos, released January 13, 2009
Mike Goldense - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Words by Mike Goldense and Katie Elsis

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Hi, I'm Michael Goldense. I've used the name Our Twilight Pastime since 2004 for the music I write & record at home. Check out my latest EP, Reimagined Static. I also released an album "The Light of What We Are" under my own name in 2017.

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