Memo To Yourself

from Wheels Fall Off by Tautologic

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Memo To Your Self
Words and Music by Ethan Taylor Sellers

Lighten up!
You carry existential weight
As if it were the will of fate
You're aging at alarming rate
And it's such a waste of youth.
I should know,
I was once too serious, just like you
Wrapped up in my own worldview
And the knots I tied myself into.
It's time to cut you loose.

Write a memo to yourself
That, for your mental health,
Try to give the good life a chance.
You might even find
That I'll still respect your mind,
But I still love to watch you dance.

Won't you come,
When the sun is setting in the west
The daylight has been put to rest?
The trixies in their cocktail dress
Go stumbling down the street.
I don't mind
The common joys I once disdained
The drivers that drove me insane
For reasons that I can't explain,
I like everyone I meet.

Write a memo to yourself
That, for your mental health,
Try to give the good life a chance.
You might even find
That I still respect your mind,
But I still want to watch you dance.

In the end,
All our worldly scales must fall
And the things that drove us up the wall
Well, they won't bother us at all
When the clock says, "Out of time."
We can dance!
It's really quite effectual
I know you're intellectual,
But it's really more than sexual -
As if that were such a crime.

Write a memo to yourself
That, for your mental health,
Try to give the good life a chance.
You might even find
That I'll still respect your mind,
But please, can I get in your pants?

credits

from Wheels Fall Off, released April 2, 2021
Words and Music by Ethan Taylor Sellers
Arrangement by Ethan Taylor Sellers and Tautologic

Emily Albright (violin, vocals)
Pat Buzby (drums)
Nathan Britsch (bass)
Chris Greene (tenor and soprano sax)
Jay Montana (electric guitars)
Ethan Sellers (keyboards, vocals)

Produced by Ethan Taylor Sellers
Recorded by Rick Barnes at Rax Trax Recording and Ethan Taylor Sellers at home
Additional recording by Brian Frost
Mixed and Mastered by Rick Barnes at Rax Trax Recording

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