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To Give Up Hope At Twenty Years

from Longing. by Tyler Daniel Bean

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  • Longing LP
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Longing was released on Kat Kat Records in 2012.
    Cover photo taken by Lauren Mazzotta

    1. Flowers At My Feet
    2. I Think It's Time to Go Back to Our Original Smoothie Plan
    3. Heather Lane
    4. Lake Eola
    5. I'm Just Going to Go Home and Not Make Any Progress
    6. Rootbeerlington
    7. To Give Up Hope At Twenty Years
    8. It's Vegan, Not Vagen II
    9. It's Like Living At A Vegan Diner
    10. Sometimes the Details Are Underground

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lyrics

We sat watching the grass embrace the swings
Until their outstretched arms touched the stars
And our hearts never beat in step with our feet
As we traveled their tightly stitched seem

We’ve felt the snow take rest in the cracks in our eyelids
And we’ve listened to our bones speak in whispers,

“We were never entitled to our bodies
They’re just the roots connecting our souls to the earth.”

One day we’ll leave our bodies for the night sky
Where we’ll live forever as silhouettes.

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from Longing., released November 6, 2012

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Tyler Daniel Bean Burlington, Vermont

Over a decade, Tyler Daniel Bean grew from a person and a guitar into a community of twenty or so friends from around the US. Ten releases and 350 odd shows later, they have primarily paused. But the core of the music remains: it is recognizing that functioning in the face of fear is striving to be human; it is finding a way to say "I want to live," even recognizing the relentlessness of it all. ... more

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