Let Yourself Off the Hook

from Demos by Luke Hawley

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Yesterday afternoon I realized
All of my favorite friends are gadflys
Buzzing in my ear
Asking why we're here
While half of my head is philosophic
The other side's staunchly catastrophic
Running around town
Shouting the blue skies down

Saying the good old days were never good

I heard a sermon preached on Thomas
Said it wasn't the doubt that kept him honest
He was desperate to believe
In things he couldn't see
I got to thinking I'm a lot like him
An optimist caught in skeptic's skin
Hoping everything is fine
Despite the warning signs

Maybe the good old days were never good
But we saw the world the best we could

You know I love my indignation
Righteous or not, that warm sensation
Spreading across my skin
Boiling to the brim
So you let me spin like a top on fire
Cursing and squealing like an amplifier
Until I bust another fuse
And surrender to the news

That the last few years have been real bad

You wait me out ever patiently
Biding your time to remind me
Of all the things I've got
That I've conveniently forgot
Til you put your hands upon my cheeks
And I almost believe love could calm the seas
You look me in the eyes
And the panic in me dies

Maybe the last few years haven't been so bad
I just lost the line on all I had

And you say
Let yourself off the hook
Let yourself off the hook now darling
I know you want to do it all by the book
But you have to let yourself off the hook sometimes

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from Demos, released January 28, 2021

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