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My Apology | The Get Up Kids
After passing out at about 8 last night, I woke up in the middle of the night unable to go to sleep for a couple of hours. I began thinking about a lot of the friendships that I’m fairly resentful of, then I started thinking about the ones that I let fall by the wayside. Then I started thinking about how I’d bonded with a good handful of people over The Get Up Kids, among other bands that were pretty much a big deal a few years back.
This isn’t the place where I get all deep and emotional…but shit y’all, sometimes a dude gets frustrated over things. I can’t believe this is the kind of stuff that keeps me up at night.
This is the first Get Up Kids song I ever heard, on a college tour bus in North Carolina, March 2000. “You’ll be accepting my apology for taking things too seriously. Sometimes I’m old enough to keep routines… sometimes I’m child enough to scream for everything I broke in two. You’re barely missing me, I’m missing you. And everything you do… I really do. My once photographic memories for recollection’s sake is failing me. I can’t remember for the life of me…. Sometimes I can think to recite words that I read and rewrite. My pens paint people that I’ve proven wrong. We move on. Get a job where I tell all of my accounts of someone else. I’m quick enough to judge that they were wrong and that we knew it all along. Sing a long, long-winded song and I would be content to hum along. If I state that my fingers know where to show what everyone should have known, then I’ll let it go. Hopefully you’ll forget any words that I put in print. My luck, you’ll change and have strength enough to walk away.”
As a songwriter, this became one of my favorite anthems about the art of writing what you feel. It’s nice to know sometimes that other people out there think the way you do (or used to, haha.)
