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The Wonder Years – Oldest Daughter
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[Verse 1: Dan Campbell] / You drift in with the wind / And use a library computer to check in / "You can't sleep at the table, ma'am / You're scaring the kids" / And the fall's
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The Wonder Years – Lost It in the Lights
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[Verse 1] / It's newly summer and Tony Bourdain died / I'm laying down in the shower staring up at a broken light / There's something screaming out from in my vent at night / It's
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The Wonder Years – Low Tide
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[Verse 1] / I’m staring at the wall, ‘cause the only news is bad news / I’m waiting to fall—I’m the rain cloud in your living room / I keep making lists of shit to tell my
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The Wonder Years – Cardinals II
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[Verse 1] / I know the feeling in the morning when the sun / Lights the dust that hangs in orbit as you're waking up / And for a moment, you feel weightless, then the panic comes
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The Wonder Years – Songs About Death
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[Verse 1] / Been writing songs about death so long that I wish I could just go numb / And think of funeral processions and the way they fuck the traffic up / Another call in the
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The Wonder Years – Wyatt's Song (Your Name)
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[Verse 1] / I recorded your heartbeat / It's one thirty-three / The tempo's in my blood now / I hum it when I'm lonely / I recorded your heartbeat / I stared at your knees / I
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The Wonder Years – You're the Reason I Don't Want the World to End
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[Verse 1] / It's already June / The light paints you pink / When it breaks through the cherry trees / You shout at the moon / We lay on your swing / I'm right where I'm meant to be
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I need you to know I love you still / I don't like me
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This is likely Dan Campbell speaking to his son and wife.
In the album documentary, Coughing Out Embers, Campbell says to his son, “The depression comes from a place of being afraid of failing you. Not in any absence of joy of your existence”
It is important to Campbell that his son understands that his pain is not because of him even though it happened in tandem with his birth. It is a larger battle that Campbell is still learning how to fight.
He wrote this song as a bit of an apology to his wife, too. Campbell referred to himself as “sensibly useless” in regards to him battling depression and trying to be a new father at the same time. It is important that his wife knows that it isn’t because he doesn’t love and support her, it is because he is facing an exhausting battle that causes him to not like himself.
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The Wonder Years – Summer Clothes
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[Verse 1] / Justin and I have got the windows down / The AC is busted, it's hotter than hell / But I hate myself a little less / When the salt air hits my skin / [Verse 2] / Sat on
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The Wonder Years – Laura & The Beehive
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[Verse 1] / I can barely remember it / Two or three at the time / Watering your tomato plants / I had fallen behind / I stepped on a beehive / You threw your body over mine / [
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Lukas Graham – 7 Years
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In “7 Years”, the Danish group Lukas Graham reflect on their life and wonder about growing older. Nostalgia from ages 7, 11, and 20 are explored before the band goes on to wonder
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The Wonder Years – Old Friends Like Lost Teeth
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[Verse 1: Dan Campbell] / I woke up and caught my breath / The sun had gone down on Berlin / We lost you last week / But you walked into the room again / [Verse 2: Dan Campbell
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You're a block party outside a junkyard fire
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This is a reference to the 2018 Junkyard Fire in the Kensington section of Philadelphia. The blaze was made infamous from a viral video of “Philly Elmo” marching with a drumline at a party that had gathered during the fire.
Dan was living a few short blocks from the junkyard at the time of the fire.
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Honeywater – Wonder
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They live in Wonder / A little town beneath the peak of a mountain / With a fountain made of snow / He took him under / The wishing well and they caught love / In the form of
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Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle (Ft. Jimmy LaValle & Mark Kozelek) – Somehow the Wonder of Life Prevails
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I had a high school friend, he liked to hunt muskrats and rabbits / And he liked to draw and he liked to listen to Ian Gillan with Black Sabbath / But one night outside a Canton
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First Aid Kit – Child of Summer
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[Verse 1] / Always wanted to be a child of summer / Maybe that would change my disposition / I've been running around all these years / Praying for some for some kind of
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9th Wonder (Ft. HALO & Masta Killa) – Loyalty
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This track is a re-make of Masta Killa’s song “Loyalty Is Royalty,” which was also produced by 9th Wonder. Masta Killa’s verses are the same as on the original, while HaLo steps in
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