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Clean your act and get yourself employed boy
Don’t you let those bastards get you down
While everyone here just dreams of New York City
Everyone there just dreams of skipping town
I’m starting to find it’s hard to go on living
In the same routine and just shouting all the same lines
I’m tossing up rocks; screaming at your window
“Babe, I’m locked! Can you please throw me down your keys?”

I’ll come up and promise you tomorrow
Promises never last through the night
Hearts were never meant to carry such sorrow
So I keep screaming, “come and take it!”
‘Cause I think that I’m ready to die

And if you want to chase those dreams
Keep around bad company
We’ve got all the right tools boy to keep you down
I’m mad at you; you’re mad at me
There’s nothing left for us to be
And I found I liked it better just sleeping around
So I'm stabbing ice and rambling on about my dreams
It’s like throwing pennies down wishing wells
And its getting to the point where I don’t understand anything
But I’m damn sure that I’m going straight to hell

I watched the skyline fall as I left the city
Wondered about all those friends I left behind
Found myself in the arms of a stranger
So I can be around something pretty when I die

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from Something Pretty: In The Arms of a Stranger (Part 1), released August 7, 2020
Music and lyrics by James Moritz

Vocals, Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitars, and Bass by James Moritz
Electric guitar by Brian Broussard
Upright Piano by Sammy Powell
Drums by Patrick Herzfeld

Recorded, Engineered, Mixed, and Mastered by Patrick Herzfeld at Signal Hill Recording in Dripping Springs, TX 2020

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James Moritz has made a name for himself in the Austin, TX music scene as a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician, and vocalist. He’s been a regular performer with bands such as Mayeux & Broussard, Garrett T. Capps, and Kathryn Legendre. ... more

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