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Went from Switzerland to Germany in the blink of an eye
A war on two fronts, it was hard to comply
Firefight ensues, what’ll I do, gotta make a choice and stick with it through
Pick up my weapon, run into the fray, not afraid, making sure I stay
Calm Cool and Collected
Work and school, started five days apart, now its time for me to start my life

Processin’ Plasma, yeah that’s the stuff
Looks like apple juice, with all them lipids,
Give me that protein, I need a fillin’
Cause all this plasma is on top of me, drowning me
30 minute time limit, seems a lot but it really isn’t, constant problems have arisin
From donors to coworkers, from payin’ to cleanin’, so much is happenin its out of control
Get home, ten pm, 8 hour day, got my money just to give it all away to the school I love to the school I need

Go to bed, wake up just to do it all again in a different place
Extra early, 7 AM, pick up my friends to start the day
Walk around like a zombie, can’t think straight, sometimes forget breakfast and go the entire day ‘without eatin’ a single thang
Get to class, didn’t do the 80 page reading, do my best to (go with the teachin’ but Im a foo’ shouldn’t come to skool)
Rushing to keep up, assignment due in 30 min, buddy hey help me I don’t want a bad grade
Boy ain’t this the life, a college student at UWB, show my pride with a pin on my backpack

Sunday, day of Rest, no rest for me
Church in the mornin’ helps me See
After that see my friends catch up best I can
Tryin’ to be everywhere with everyone
Wish I could clone myself like Obama – rumor
Then wouldn’t have to worry about School, Work, Family, Religion,
I could be in my own little world of fantasy and mischief
Live out my life to the fullest, the extreme, do everything I dreamed with nobody to impede
Like travel the world, learn Russian, Ukrainian, be a better Christian, play guitar that’s what im sayin’
Instead I’m here all alone it makes me sigh, all these things on my shoulder and I comply
No other choice, no other alternatives, I feel like I’m gonna break

In two, out the blue, hits me like a caribou
Gotta man up, stow my pride, make sure I get out alive
Fighting for my life, fighting to survive, no time to get things done but I gotta try
Now if I snap like a twig I don’t know what’ll happen, but I’m not willing to take that chance so this is what I’m askin’

Please, Mr. Nixon, can I have some guidance?
I feel like I’m in vertigo, too high up
You can’t help me with all the problems in my life
But Logic, Proofs, Conditional Conjunctional, you the man
Make me understand, hold my hand
Then send me out, on my way, with a better plan
On what to do with my life

I crave to be respected, to do things no others do
Fight some fires, guard the Nation, save lives as a medical agent
But if I can’t handle all that’s thrown at me now
How can I ever hope to do all that
It discourages me, hurts me, to think like that
I hate to see it happen to myself, I’m not the man I was
I’m as angry as a Marine, looking for blood - metaphor
And my friends get some friendly fire along in the flood

How do I stop this mess
I still don’t know
Maybe I’ll always be searchin for the answer to all this
Maybe I’ll never find it and always be in duress
But that won’t stop me, I’ll continue on
Lets see where this life takes me, I gaze unto the sun

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from The College Overload, released March 11, 2014
Maciej Kostrzewski

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David and the 117's Bothell, Washington

David and the 117's is an amateur group in UW Bothell under the guidance of Professor David Nixon. The Class Album Project goes year by year with new classes adding their individual personas to each album, creating something completely unique every time. ... more

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