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Young And Stupid

by Gauze Children

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New song from the upcoming Gauze Children EP/compilation Flex Your Regret, out next month.

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I have a history of girlfriends’ fathers hating me
Sometimes it’s deserving but often unjustifiably
Used to have a hairdo that had yuppie cunts in bunches
And an attitude unmatched by bullies stealing cripples’ lunches
Young and stupid children will do young and stupid things
Just to prove a point that nobody is questioning
Driving late at night until the first ray of the sun hits
I’ve spent my share of 3ams inside of Golden Nuggets
Picking up the best in local powerviolence patches
Don’t know how to sew so stapled them to denim jackets
Working shitty retail just to fund a life of music
And getting a degree but unsure if I’ll ever use it
Art school not as glamorous as some had made it seem
But education’s second to the people that you meet
Shouting at the devil in the center of the Crüe pit
Everyone is always young at heart but mostly stupid

Kids, yutes, youngins, ignorant by the dozen
Something’s gotta give when they’re always getting nothing
Babes, tots, toddlers, innocent sons and daughters
Heightened crippling strictness from their mothers and their fathers
Punks, runts, rugrats, hanging out under streetlamps
Walking late at night around the places they grew up at
Lambs, lads, lasses, underdogs to the masses
Rightly apathetic to their instituted classes
Teens, mites, minors, felons or fiction writers
Craft is all subjective to the crotchety outsiders
Cubs, tykes, tadpoles, little and big rascals
Gathering up as one to watch the daily schoolyard battles

I have a history of sparking up frustrations
And sometimes disappointment in my grade school teachers’ faces
Used to drop assignments that I knew were never worth it
That’s why my essay papers on the dead were never turned in
Young and stupid children will say young and stupid words
That out of touch adults will simply write off as absurd
They’ll never understand our secret code or hidden language
Their patience with us slowly over time completely vanquished
Going to the best of local living rooms and basements
The best kind of musicians are the opposite of famous
Working on your timing when it comes to asking girls out
But never fully landing it and doomed to keep a dry mouth
Life is never glamorous for anyone who’s young
You sit and wait while jittering and twiddling your thumbs
A life of opportunities will one day come and face you
Remember to be nice and always say your please and thank yous

Squirts, seeds, students, characterized a nuisance
Proudly showing off their battle scars and lasting bruises
Tads, pups, pupils, no doubts or scruples
The planet’s largest fountain couldn’t recreate the youthful
Brats, kins, crawlers, ungentlemanly scholars
Purely dedicated to a life of love and squalor
Chaps, imps, infants, honest but never snitches
Causeless county hellions and rebellion is their business
Bairns, ankle biters, professors or prizefighters
A moral compass shared and recognized by the insiders
Twits, adolescents, committed to certain lessons
Counting down the days in between counting up their blessings

I have a history of shitty ever after
And being told I'd see success by being the biggest alpha
Used to have a confidence that got me through my weeks
Now it sort of goes on back and forward while I sleep
Young and stupid children will hear young and stupid claims
That their thoughts' importance never mattered anyway
It only takes a single individual to speak up
And only takes a single worried parent to say "Please, stop"
Used to never turn a head to other kids' perceptions
Now it's all I think about when my beliefs are questioned
Working on a stronger sense of my social surroundings
Responses to my absolute existence are astounding
Nothing is as glamorous as when you are a child
Reaching for the stars then later settling for a mile
Screaming at the skies when in the middle of a moot fit
Nothing's wrong with being fucking young and fucking stupid

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released October 27, 2015
Written and produced by L. Mounts.

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Singer of songs. Abstainer of substances. Bringer of plagues.

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