Better Than Nothing

by The Swashbuckling Doctors

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You’re working days as a data entry clerk in an office park, in lower Paterson
It pays the rent, and it’s better than nothing

Once in a while you go to the city, hit the stage, grab the microphone
Maybe kick someone in the head, well it’s better than nothing

The brakes are shot and the radio plays on the left hand side of your brother’s old Altima,
Don’t laugh, you bought it for a dollar, yeah it’s better than nothing

Sunday dinners back in Morristown with the fam, you still like to see them
And you do your laundry for free, well it’s better than nothing

There has to be something, something more, something brighter and bigger than this
Well look around turn around turn your life, your dreams are in reach

And speaking of something there’s this voice in the back of your head
it sings to you in the dark, and it says, Is this better than nothing?

You went to school you had a dream of acting on the stage,
Or maybe in the movies or even cable TV, well that’s better than most things

There has to be something, something more, something brighter and bigger than this
Well look around turn around turn your life, your dreams are in reach

(Trombone Solo)

There has to be something, something more, something brighter and bigger than this
Well look around turn around turn your life, your dreams are in reach

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released March 17, 2020

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Sail the ska-punk high seas with these Fort Collins-based misfits. Formed in 2010 and still skanking!

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