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    Shrug Life's second album, their first on wax. Spin this archaic artefact to your hearts content.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Maybe You're The Punchline via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Selected Shrug Life lyrics from across past and future releases. Includes an introductory essay by Danny Carroll on lyric writing. Layout and design by Beibhinn Delaney

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lyrics

Eighteen going on nineteen
lost my mind for a bit
Deemed unfit for school and work and society
The culmination of a weak disposition
too much weed and paranoid visions
of death, disease and The Beatles,
the ghost of John Lennon was evil
and out to get me, naturally

In 2009
You could say it was a tricky time for me.

Eighteen going on nineteen
lost my mind for a spell
It's strange on reflection how cracked you'll get before
people can start to tell.
Days previous I felt like a genius
Sleepless, but safe in my cure for cancer
Awake for six nights working on the answer
Talking to God at Tara Street station of course

In 2009,
No it wasn't an especially excellent time for me
In lecture halls and supermarkets
Panic attacks emerged
and shook me to surrender

The summer that followed was quiet at home
repeat exams and consultations
Swiftly chucked away my phone
No energy left for explanations
In one sense still feeling permanently stoned
numbed out on a substitute, six months medication....

2009
Helped me redefine what I might be
2009
Operating from zero up became a gift to me

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from Maybe You're The Punchline, released April 3, 2020

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Shrug Life is the questionable, protective moniker of Danny, Keith, Josh and Laura. Together they make music and fight first world problems. This is their story...

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