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I'll Tell You What I Am

from Love and Unfortunately Fascism by Tyler Shipley

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on every album i've ever made i wrote a song wherein i complained about someone who didn't treat me right - a questionable decision, in hindsight. oh buddy, you really missed the point, crying into your corduroy. so many people in your life done so much to do you right. i'll tell you what i am: i'm grateful for everything. the birds and the ducks and the cats. every person who's ever held my hand.

writing songs is a privilege cos you can dictate the narrative under the guise of 'this is my art,' no different from a bully in the schoolyard. i did that to people i had loved because i was weak and i was scared of being judged for things i had done - a guilty conscience if ever there was one. i'll tell you what i am: i'm grateful for everything. the birds and the ducks and the cats. every person who's ever held my hand.

oh i'll never fully figure it out, what i'm here for, what i'm about. but i'm here because people took care. i'm on the winning side of life ain't fair. i'll tell you what i am: i'm an impossibly lucky man. i love the birds and the ducks and the cats. and i'll find some way to pay it all back.

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from Love and Unfortunately Fascism, released October 14, 2019

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Tyler Shipley was the founding member of the Consumer Goods (theconsumergoods.bandcamp.com) and now performs as a solo artist.

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