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Demo: Boring Life

Demo of a song I just finished about graduating.  Thanks to Alec Leverette for the guitar solo.  Someday I'll actually learn how to play that damn instrument myself...

http://soundcloud.com/felix-lin/boring-life

Lyrics:

[Verse 1]
Camel lights on your breath and mine
Talking ‘bout spring break this time
Memories made in dim lit bars
Troubles lost in speeding cars

Hearken back to halcyon days
When we had time to go astray
Heady times for dashing thoughts
‘Fore our souls could all be bought

[Chorus]
Oh I long for the time when life could be boring
Now we’re all being blown from our moorings
Adrift for now

Setting out searching for El Dorado
’94 Camry, no wheel, no throttle
No wonder there’s doubt

[Verse 2]
The doomsday clock is counting down
Striking fear without a sound
Three more months till that day when
From childhood we must wake

The caps and gowns they’ll come in June
Childhood gone away too soon
Cheers in hope of what is to come
But tears for what has gone

[Chorus]

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus]

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