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Artist: The Hold Steady
Canonical path: /the-hold-steady/stay-positive
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Stay Positive
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Stay Positive
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I got a lot of old friends
that are getting back in touch
And it's a pretty good feeling,
yeah, it feels pretty good
I get a lot of double takes
when I'm coming round the corners
And it's mostly pretty nice, yeah,
it's mostly pretty all right.
'Cause most kids give me credit
for being down with it
When it was back in the day,
back when things
were way different
When the Youth of Today
and the early 7 Seconds
Taught me some of life's
most valuable lessons.
There's gonna come a time
when the scene
will seem less sunny
And they'll probably
get too druggy
and the kids
will seem too skinny
There's gonna come a time
when she's gonna have to go
With whoever's
gonna get her the highest
There's gonna come a time
when the true scene leaders
Forget where they differ
and get big picture.
'Cause the kids at the shows,
they'll have kids of their own
Their sing-along songs
will be our scriptures.
We gotta stay positive x4
When the chaperone crowned us
the king and the queen
I knew that we'd arrived
at a unified scene
And all those little lambs
from my dreams,
Well they were there too.
'Cause it's one thing
to start it
with a positive jam
And it's another thing
to see 'em through.
And we couldn't even done
this if it wasn't for you.
We gotta stay postiive x3
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