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lyrics

Where are you, Suzy ChapStick?
Don't make me do something drastic
To recoup
My long-lost youth
How’d it get away so fast?
Where is my conversion van
And my stash I kept hid inside a Tab can
It's all just rust
And I'm almost dust
Good times don’t last

On the shag carpet floor
Watching Mary Tyler Moore
Time drags by
Like clouds across the sky

In my apartment I
Stare at the wall and wonder why
Years just slipped away
Without saying all I wanted to say

Where are you, Suzy ChapStick?
Don't make me do something drastic
To recoup
My long-lost youth
How’d it get away so fast?
Where is my conversion van
And my stash I kept hid inside a Tab can
It's all just rust
And I'm almost dust
Good times don’t last

In the back of a dirty van
When the Challenger crashed you held my hand
Days go on and on
And nights never turn to dawn

In my gray corporate cube
Pushing paper as the years accrue
Living for the weekend
When it all becomes so clear

Where are you, Suzy ChapStick?
Don't make me do something drastic
To recoup
My long-lost youth
How’d it get away so fast?
Where is my conversion van
And my stash I kept hid inside a Tab can
It's all just rust
And I'm almost dust
Good times don’t last

Why did I have to wait so long
To figure out where I belong?
Watch the Brady Bunch, procrastinate
Wake up to find it’s just too late

Where are you, Suzy ChapStick?
Don't make me do something drastic
To recoup
My long-lost youth
How’d it get away so fast?
Where is my conversion van
And my stash I kept hid inside a Tab can
It's all just rust
And I'm almost dust
Good times don’t last

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from Girl in the Background, released May 15, 2018

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