Name: Rudderless Day
Duration: P00H03M38S
Description: This was the first song written on this album, and it's basically about what happens to me when I've been crazy busy and finally have a day off. I feel stupid and aimless and guilty. I had a day like this two years ago and it upset me enough to get me off the couch to turn those feelings into a song.

Rudderless Day

from First Days of Summer by Michael Simmons

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This was the first song written on this album, and it's basically about what happens to me when I've been crazy busy and finally have a day off. I feel stupid and aimless and guilty. I had a day like this two years ago and it upset me enough to get me off the couch to turn those feelings into a song.

lyrics

You think I’d be happy, you’d think I’d feel great
With nothing impending, a lift of the weight
I step off the hamster wheel, I Try to exhale
But I can’t stand to sit here and feel somehow I’ve failed

What goes around it comes around, it never truly ends
on the sofa of my lethargy the punishment begins

Rudderless day, I feel it coming on this sickness
I can't run away, it's been so freaking long
since I knew how to play
to sit here feels so wrong, feel like I'm dying
with nothing to say, another rudderless day

I can see the horizon, but where to begin
Feeling so alien in my own skin
Can anybody teach me how to enjoy
A whole day of nothing doing
like when I was a boy

What goes around it comes around
Like monkeys on our backs
And I’ll be begging for a moment, a minute to relax

What goes around it comes around
This moment too shall pass
A whole day off and still I can’t enjoy it while it lasts

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from First Days of Summer, released March 15, 2018
Performed by Michael Simmons

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Michael Simmons Huntington Beach, California

Guitarist/songwriter/vocalist for venerable powerpop band sparkle*jets u.k., frequent voice behind Popdudes, and 1/3 of Yorktown Lads.

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