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Music is Lonely (Reprise)

from Nobody's in the Room by Joey Small

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I'm not hungry
Metaphorically
But my appetite for food is up

I gained a lot of weight
Your failure makes mine easier to take
But makes my success all the sweeter
I still got it


I wanted to make a band
But I have no friends for which to build something meaningful with
I wanted to make a band
I still want to make a band
You've been a great audience!!

Except there's no audience at all!!!!?!!?!!
I'm alone in the sunroom of the house that I don't pay nearly enough for
A lot of my friends
Not close friends but friends that I've made here
Pay almost twice for something not nearly as good
I'm so lucky to have this room all to myself
Most of the time
It gets pretty cold over the winter but we have space heaters for that, you know?

I'll probably {redacted} songs after I've had time to actually practice them and rehearse them
And not just write them
And don't need to read the lyrics off my phone that's on a fuckin' mic stand right next to me that has a microphone on it
But it's not recording

Wouldn't it be crazy if it was?


That's probably not funny to you if you're not in the room
And nobody's in the room
I wish somebody was in the room that I could play off of
I'll be happy again
I always have been
I can be happy again
But I'm not happy right now
I wouldn't be happy feeling how I feel right now for the rest of my life
No I wouldn't.

I wouldn't feel happy with that
I wouldn't feel happy with that
Life is just a few rounds of brief respite from feeling the way I feel right now
Hope I get another one
Hope there's another one out there for me
Another respite from business as usual
It's like my dad said
"Survival is always positive."

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from Nobody's in the Room, released April 2, 2021

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