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Death in Greenpoint

from When We Were Animals by Mishka Shubaly

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Nothing feels quite so good as feeling bad for yourself. Like ‘Don’t Cut Yr Hair,’ this song was a throwaway. It’s one of the last songs I wrote before I quit drinking and I didn’t think it was good enough to include on 'Coward’s Path.' Of course, it’s become one of my most-requested songs at shows and the video for it is approaching 100k views. Just goes to show I’m a terrible judge of the merits of my own work, don’t trust me about anything. Thanks to one of the weird miracles of the Internet, this song has a devoted following with folks in Spain/ Mexico/ Brazil. It makes me laugh to think about people listening to a song that gives a nod to Europa in Greenpoint, the old Polish dance club. What else? Oh, I die at the end.

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Coke birds sing songs of distant car alarms
Distant car alarms sound like birds
The moon hangs so low, it looks like a streetlight
Over three old men with three tall boys of Coors Light
You’re screaming underneath my window
My roommate’s blacked out on the toilet again
I’m checking into the emergency room
Under a fake name at four AM

Break, heart, break
Fail, liver, fail
But if you can hear me complaining,
I’m neither dead or in jail
I can’t remember where I parked my car
And I’m afraid of what the future holds
I don’t want to die in Greenpoint

Where the sewage treatment plant smells suspiciously like Chinese food
I don’t even want to think about what that means
We’re straining our eyes, looking for those big city lights
But it’s not even Jersey, it’s Queens
If that’s my mother calling on the phone,
Dude, I am totally not home
I’m exercising my right to surrender to the poison of my choice
I am the master of my own worst case scenarios

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I feel like I’m going to die in Greenpoint
I think I’m going to die in Greenpoint
I know I’m going to go with a head full of blow
in a Polish disco
in Greenpoint

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from When We Were Animals, released May 1, 2018

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Mishka Shubaly Phoenix, Arizona

Shipwreck survivor, Jeopardy clue, bestselling writer, road dog on house arrest.

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