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    Debut album t-shirt, designed by Ruan Van Vliet, and printed by Damn Fine Print. 100% Cotton.

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    Features cover and CD design by Ruan Van Vliet.
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    Limited Edition Spray-Painted Cassette, limited to 40 copies. Variation cover colours/tape colours available, limited to 10 copies each. Professionally printed insert and high quality real time duplication.

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lyrics

Writers block and common cold
A pointless fear of becoming old
With silver strands and stained piano key teeth
And the niggling presence of adolescent football injuries

Buying crap coffee with our names spelt wrong
It's the invigorating taste of tax evasion on our tongue
Too busy chasing targets, to change the way that we're built
Wearing cheap synthetic fibres with unspoken western guilt

First world problems, first world problems
Aimless and passive we have no patience to ever solve them

Decisions in homeware have undue significance
Still suckered by ads that undermine our intelligence
Afraid of the future with false dreams of the past
It's the invented obstacles we cannot surpass

In conflict with colleagues on teamwork retreats
Emotionally distant from friends we barely meet
Hating our neighbours for the youth in their eyes
And their EDM abandon on Wednesday nights
 
First world problems, first world problems
Aimless and passive we have no patience to ever solve them

Curse the lost lotto tickets, overcharged and underwhelmed
Turn your wants into needs, a bored version of hell
Still wishing with eyelash, lighting church candles
As close to any action as we can handle.

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from ¯​​​\​​​_​​​(​​​ツ​​​)​​​_​​​/​​​¯, released September 29, 2018

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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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