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

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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

Join the local gym with the obnoxious name
Blasting shit pop hits, no pain no gain
Become strong like an ox and burn off the excess calories
And all the terrible toxins presumably killing me

Join a nearby choir, get to know the community
It lifts your mood a little higher, to share an out of tune harmony
Don't worry that they think you'll probably burn in hell
Sure it doesn't really matter if you sing 'Amazing Grace' this well

Join the meditation class, run by your cousin's hippy friend
Dropped out of business at last, and "now he's totally zen"
Just put your trust in his pan-pipe authority
For 20 euros a week he'll teach you how to breathe properly

Try new hobbies, try be happy
Maybe able to feel more stable

Go the Italo disco, pretend you're in to the deep cuts
Find some brief sense of flow, when you've stopped caring how you look
Talk to people to you used to know, ignore initial dread
Cause they're not all out to judge you or assume you're a dickhead

Do the soup run on Tuesday, put your worries in context
Progress beyond the cliché nest of Netflix and no sex
Cook a fucking avocado and laugh at your neuroses
No more hiding in the shadow of misanthropic tendencies

Try new hobbies
Try be happy
Not so nervous
Not so worthless
With some purpose
Start to surface

credits

from Maybe You're The Punchline, released April 3, 2020
Danny - man voice and guitars, Keith - bass, Josh - drums, Naoise - woman voice, Jonny Fun - keys

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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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