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Visit Your National Parks!

from Just Keep Swimming by Sharks & Minnows

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Visit Your National Parks!

i took this job
hiking the grounds
of national parks
in hopes that
i could land those big-time hollywood roles
calling for a man who learned
to turn into a poster child:
the picture of survival in the wild.

but now i know that on your own,
you can't save any kind of forest
armed with only flint, fire, and
some boy scout ways to
make it through the night.
so i'll go back to a life in denial,
and drain my 401k
seduce the trophy wife
i had no wish to purchase
or be with.

there's a certain sense of regret in
feeling like the atmosphere
is the highest height i'll ever hit,
no matter how far away i go from here;
it'll always feel like i was born
in the wrong time or hemisphere.

so if waiting takes all the fun out of airplanes,
and all the brilliant things minds will ever make,
you never even know what you're missing
until someone can realize its shape.

take me, take me to a new frontier
i've seen the smartest thinkers
spending their time with even smarter men,
'cause you can't hope to rewrite history
if you're the mental giant
amongst your friends.

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from Just Keep Swimming, released July 10, 2011

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