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You're Plucked

by JJ Byars

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Are you stuck in a rut
Are you soft and buttered up
Have you stopped giving a fuck
Have your dreams run amuck

For reals though
It seems, it seems, it seems to be a theme

Can you not sit still
You eat but can't your fill
You twitch and your eyes spill
If your legs were knives they would kill
Your blood's pumped too thin, so thin, so thin, so thin your head's spinning

Before you know it you've grown old
But old ain't old if your heart's still bold
In the end it's life you can't hold
Just pictures floating in a fish bowl

Before you know it you've grown old
But old ain't old if your heart's still bold
In the end it's life you can't hold
Just pictures floating in a fish bowl

Never ending yellow roads
It's there your mind slows
It's there your blood flows
Like the strings from violin bows
You're plucked and you know it, you know it, you know it, you know it and you don't mind

Trust it every once in a while
That gut of yours has got some style
It got you down some dirty miles
It's gotta at least make you smile
At the random chance, the chance, the chance, the chance for some laughs

Before you know it you've grown old
But old ain't old if your heart's still bold
In the end it's life you can't hold
Just pictures floating in a fish bowl

Before you know it you've grown old
But old ain't old if your heart's still bold
In the end it's life you can't hold
Just pictures floating in a fish bowl

Before you know it you've grown old
But old ain't old if your heart's still bold
In the end it's life you can't hold
Just pictures floating in a fish bowl

Before you know it you've grown old
But old ain't old if your heart's still bold
In the end it's life you can't hold
Just pictures floating in a fish bowl

Before you know it you've grown old
But old ain't old if your heart's still bold
In the end it's life you can't hold
Just pictures floating in a fish bowl

Before you know it you've grown old
But old ain't old if your heart's still bold
In the end it's life you can't hold
Just pictures floating in a fish bowl

Before you know it you've grown old
But old ain't old if your heart's still bold
In the end it's life you can't hold
Just pictures floating in a fish bowl

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released July 7, 2023
JJ Byars: guitar, vocals, synths, sax
Jonathan Smith: Drums, Production
Kellen Harrison: Bass

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JJ Byars Brooklyn, New York

"...with 'Toys.' Clocking in at just under five minutes, it’s a rich, explorative, ode to impermanence that pulls from a whole variety of genres, while defying them altogether, with JJ’s lush vocals coming set against a backdrop of country-style chicken pickin’ guitars, before handclaps and other percussive elements enter to carry the song to its dynamic climax."
--We Are The Guard ... more

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