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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    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

Swimming in lemsip
What's another year?
Nothing grows in November
besides the fear
Am I earning enough to remain in the city?
Rent's going up next month, no surprise

So I keep the timetable
packed Tetris tight
No room to manoeuvre
no space for off nights
Too worked up to wind down I run without rest
As custard coloured slugs come up off my chest

Weighing in
At an incredible
One hundred and forty seven pounds
A colossus in Age Action jumpers
A poster for modern fatigue
A hero in dead-men's trousers
Face for millennial unease
These briefcases beneath my eyes mean business
Arabica beans beat my brain until Christmas

Hoovering strepsils
hoping for change
Y'just smother the sickness
If it means getting paid
Am I working enough to contain the old worry?
Can't let the cracks show on the job

Wrestling with,
My monthly list of
mounting bills, old debts and dumb decisions
A goliath in pressure zone housing
Titan of the middle-class squeeze
Scraping by on false notions
Of freelance purity
Where you'll never afford to ignore a hint of business
Arabica beans beat my brain until Christmas

So get to work
In wrinkled shirt, with
Button loose and
Sweaty collar
Sprits frayed
but getting through
Nothing new, it's only you
It's only winter

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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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