Idle Thoughts

from Chess With HAL by The Donut Heist

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Music by The Donut Heist
Lyrics by Clay Graham

Cover artwork by Alex Dobson & Celia Baker

Recorded at One:twentyseven Studios

Produced by Jordan Puckett

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My words are always caked in waves of ideology.
A phony is the real me.

Sometimes I think that it’d be nice
To write someone else’s songs.
My self-obsession feels just a little wrong.

I’ve been idling idle thoughts in my idle heart.
But occasionally I begin to break.

And they tell me it’s okay,
You work too much anyway.
But they never learned from my mistakes.

I don’t want to be much of anything.
I just want to be free.
I don’t want to be that much of anything.
I just want to be.

I wanna move back to a desert town in west Texas.
Wake up with the sun and cook a homegrown breakfast

Instead of instant oats and television,
My four walls are my little prison.
I’m just made for escape, escape, escape, escape.

I don’t want to be much of anything.
I just want to be free.
I don’t want to be that much of anything.
I just want to be.

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from Chess With HAL, released August 17, 2016
Alex Dobson - guitars, backing vocals
Clay Graham - vocals, guitars, bass
Jordan Puckett - keys, backing vocals
Seth Short - drums

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