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My Former Life on the Cutting Room Floor

from Moonlight Girls by High on Stress

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about

According to Nick Leet...

This was the very first High on Stress song. My ex-girlfriend wrote the main verse acoustic guitar part and I finished the rest. I met Mark Devaraj through a "Band Wanted" poster I hung at Music Go Round in Uptown, MPLS (RIP). We got together at City Sound on Glenwood and Girard in Minneapolis. My friends from the band "Runlikego" let us use their practice space. We met and ran through this song a number of times. I believe Mark recorded it on a boombox and probably still has it somewhere.

It's about leaving my long time band, "Standard Thompson" (1996-2003)

lyrics

Take a picture and let it go
in the folds of your wallet that let you know
that what you've had has been replaced
all the lives that you have led
some expanded and some are dead
but it feels so good to like yourself again

It's hard enough to break (more than I can take)
it's hard enough to break (more than I can take)
It's hard enough to break
You better give it away

Here it comes again
don't you see it
It's the attitude you take with me
So give me a new address
and get me away from your mess
A pill to make you function
An attitude adjustment
A smile from your replacement
That is all you need

credits

from Moonlight Girls, released July 15, 2005
Nick Leet - vocals, guitar, organ
Mark Devaraj - drums
Jon Tranberry - bass and backing vocals
Ben "Country" Baker - Guitar and backing vocals

Written by Nick Leet / Sarah Wagoner

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