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Conventions Of Cool

from I Am The Cheese by Danny Carroll

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about

One morning, after realising Alone Again, Naturally by Gilbert O’Sullivan has the most gorgeous chord sequence in popular music, I wrote this tender little song about my teenage years. I guess at the age of 30 I was ready to admit I’ve never been and never will be ‘cool’. Thinking about what that meant as a teenager brought up some interesting feelings for me. At the time I was an individual - so I had long hair and listened to Black Sabbath, like all my other friends who played guitar. This was grounds for having your sexuality questioned on a daily basis. Halcyon days. Carl Eccles does a real nice Twin Peaks thing at the end of this.

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Celtic jersey
Corduroy jacket
Hair down to there
15watt racket
I never learned the conventions of cool

Good old days
being told you’re gay
as if nothing could matter more
Tripped up and pinned to the floor
by conventions of cool

Gotta watch your back
Memorise this fact
Never be sincere
That’s a weakness here

Staying silent
Out of habit
Hiding in headphones
Buried in Black Sabbath, it was
Some escape from
the conventions of cool

Splits on a fifty bag
Smoke it the forest
A little haze helps you
feel like a tourist when you’re
Too familiar with
the conventions of cool

Gotta watch your back
Try to act relaxed
Never show your fear
That won’t help you here

My hands shake when I think about it
Even now, sometimes feel surrounded
I hope they get theirs
Well-earned nightmares

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from I Am The Cheese, released March 1, 2024

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Danny Carroll Dublin, Ireland

embarrassing millennial, still at the music in Dublin, Ireland

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    Berlin, Germany

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