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SF is Fine

by UT Kirin

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1.
East Asia 05:00
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What do you do here? And who do you work with? I’m trying to get them to kick me out But it isn’t quite working We got Kashmiri glass And some Nepalese shirts I had a goddamn reservation That’s an Indian joke Are you lost in the stacks? Of the East Asian collection? Did your internship offer? Did you finish your master’s? How’s the rent up in Richmond? You’re your parents disaster Can your tiger hat protect you from the ocean? Walk across the bay bridge tied to who you think you’ll die with They say Outer Sunset's cute Kids on MacBooks in their bedrooms That’s what I want I guess? Eat in cafes - san francisco Take a trip up to Astoria Afraid there’s nothing left here for ya Is this new life worth it to ya Have a beer here kid you've earned it Come on then, let’s off to New Zealand Christchurch would be perfect, is that what you’re thinking I’d bartend, and you’d work in a florist I wish that I could tell you that it’s what I wanted Fuck art history Take your clothes off please Take shots in the kitchen When we heard shots back at UC When will this all end dear Maybe I will die here Newsfeeds would be tragic Isn’t that romantic
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The King of Palo Alto 02:58
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Take a 40 with you on the Pittsburg Line Forty times I told you that we’ll be just fine All this constant barking I abandoned my ears Dad’s a slave to mom, mom’s a slave to wine When I stumble home there will be no cheers If you get in trouble meet me back right here We’re the kings and queens of Palo Alto Don’t you ask again where I’ll be next year I’ve got no complaints I’m a privileged bastard Buy me into Stanford I just gotta ask them Major in CS join an asian frat house I don’t give a shit I just wanna pass out Aren’t these treelined streets what you moved here for? Look like prison bars from the 2nd floor Did you plan your escape out to MIT? Tell me how is life on the other shore If I strain my eyes I can hear the sea Birds are cracking jokes and laughing at me I would crack their necks if it was cool to be violent You steel your nerves and I’ll steal the keys Will you look me up when you've made it out there? If I’m still alive I’ll come find you I swear I might be the King of Palo Alto I hope I never find out
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Chinese American 03:30
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Girl in the yale sweater Why did you come out to contra costa? Was it the warmer than average weather Or cause New Haven's as dry as Sonoma I don't doubt you I'd just like to know about you Was your father a wealthy wall street investor? Takes the train in at quarter to seven Sister's a senior in kappa kappa You weren't about that, preferred marijuana Backpack with frayed straps Headphones on Telegraph What's in your ears? "Trans-era death cab" Sixteen was rough but now you're in sixteen Hours of french literature and art histroy Two anchor steams to go you can show me your glow Speak on the phone to your folks back at home In chinese american The west coast is rich with violins But you had to quit cause you were too violent You were a riot Your great grandfather was payed by the mile Lined Vanderbilt's pockets and lined up to die in the desert So who had it better? Girl in the yale sweater I never saw you in the spring semester I hope that Pascal and pastells weren't too stressful I choose to believe you're abroad a la rive gauche
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Wyoming 02:50
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You say that SF is no place for you Move in by yourself and you’re cosigning to bad news Twin peaks is nice I know that you like the views But when the rent’s due? You say the west coast is no place for you Fall apart out here and you’ll praying with Hindus Tell yourself it’s only two more years, and you’ll make do Then write an album of fuck yous Late on a Friday, I called you, get ready I’ll be there in fifteen you’d better look pretty You hear that? The sound of your youthfulness drowning We’ve got to get out I’ll head northeast til morning You woke up in Wyoming, sky frozen, unmoving Please say you love me, this plan's no undoing Let’s build a cabin and live unassuming We may not be soulmates but better than nothing
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Pledge to Millennials 02:25
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Let’s drive up to Marin where we’ll all go a tasting And forget of the wasteland that we will leave behind Where we lie to our fathers and ignore our mothers How can they never get it, don’t they read their news online? Make me breakfast, make me children, let me Peer at the future let me, stitch up the sutures, I’m a muslim too at heart Make diverse friends, speak your kindness, draw a blind eye to the blindness It’s my overwhelming whiteness that is setting me apart Make me offers, I’m informed now, NPR’s on every morning Will I move on up to Portland? That’s for Pitchfork to decide I’ve get every open door now aren’t you jealous of my background? Japanese girl in the flowers, guess I made it, I’ll be fucked by 29
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Clarendon Heights 01:29
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And we sailed! To the tallest tower To the best Vietnamese in the Castro The bay's a mighty fine blue place to drown Can you see San Rafael? Can you see Oakland? Somewhere in the Mission you found parking And I won't let this wind sweep us away again See Outer Sunset? That's where we're living And that's where we're dying we're dying we're dyinig we're dying
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Straight Shooter 03:04
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Take all of your bad blood and drive down to Monterrey Hands full of mushrooms and something like peyote They say it's raining and I say there's no way No one's gonna fuck me up unless it's me What was the name I told you my name was? Was it the name I use when I buy drugs? Think that you're fine right now wait til 10 of Try walking down Market with your eyes up Streetcars and riders who's your supplier? Lucy's arrived now don't touch me I'm wired Meanwhile I'm thinking of how many miles It takes to get away from a mind that's on fire Take two of these to make sure that it kicks in Wash it all down with this 5 dollar dry gin Did you forget to turn in that assignment? Did you really think you were meant for refinement? Heroin- poison kids, Reagan's war- never won, Fathers' daughters, mothers' sons, Found the gun, found face down, twenty-one
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Fireball 03:41
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And when I crossed into the city for the first time There were clouds of pink like drug trip fodder reflecting sunset into my eyes I wasn’t paralyzed but focused on the address that I had in mind Up on Corona Heights where they were shooting FireBall It all began and you were two ahead my heart was racing What was in that bowl you lit he told me "that’s that west coast shit you’re tasting How’s your life down on the south side? East of Shattuck? Not a bad ride We are now your social life so better get used to the drive What’s that you say? You’ll be engaged soon? Big mistake you’re 22 Meet some UCSF girls and tell me how much that ring means to you You’re going to a club tonight this dj's tight My friend molly’s coming gameplan is to all roll out at nine And if you think you’re going back to Berkeley you’re mistaken Cause SF is where it’s at now stop delaying let’s get wasted" And when I saw the fatal car crash that had left your girlfriend single I thought back to all the times you told me that you’d live forever How you feeling goddamn bastard had to get home by eleven Last text that you sent me said "I really hope that you’re still coming Cause I just fought with Jane again she lyfted to financial district And now I’m stranded here at Kilowatt and there’s talk of scoring crystals Do you think that you’d be down?" Well I think if I’d been around I would be laughing and not staring at you in the ground
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Fifteen 06:02
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Take some time off, go up to Tahoe Have you ever, seen such a fine (white) snow You’ve been acting insane, you know we love you And if she can’t move here, you know we won’t stop you Did you really think, it'd all come so easy? Here’s your paycheck, here’s your degree, go off get married When these castle walls you imagined come toppling down Who do you think will bury your sword in the ground? What are you fighting for? This isn’t war, it’s young adulthood get your shit together You think some how this western world will turn your girl into something wetter (better) What’s the plan, think you can make it, what have you done, and who depends on you? Fly to Syria for the New York Times, come back alive and tell me what’s true If I change my mind, say sure I’ll take it Santa Clara suburbs here I come Will I still be able to raise five kids that I can be proud of? And will they age and say hey SF Isn’t Fine it’s a course on fifteen But fifteen is the year that I met you, and SF’s where we’ll be, you and me
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SF is Fine 02:53
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How can I stare at a traffic light pounded by rain And these grey skies look more dismal every day I remember the blue was unreal as I started Day fifteen was so hot the said take extra water With Is This It delivered to my ears Like a roll call, and no one could tell you What to make of this twenty-one year old Singing a Strokes song and walking alongside The highway how much better could my life have gotten But now when I look at the houses I’ve spotted On hills I wonder have they seen sites That are empty I only see them in memories And I stare at the pavement and I stare at my homework And I try to make myself do a little work But these temptations they make it unbearable To live in this state when I probably peaked last year I went to the Mission stoned and I found there Five asian girls that I had met before And all of the newest Twitter programmers Stripped them of their boyfriends by acting like assholes They say that SF is the place if you’re Smart and liberal and twenty-three of twenty-four But I don’t feel it that way, the way that my friends do It’s probably me but I’d up for the bayou So that I could ditch these fancy drugs And drink myself silly on a porch while I strum And hate myself for leaving and hate you for telling Me that it’s all fine and it’s all fine and I swear that I'm fine

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released January 21, 2016

All music, lyrics and production by Benjamin Huber-Rodriguez, with additional vocals by Benjamin Hirsch on 'Straight Shooter'.

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UT Kirin Austin, Texas

Bedroom indie rock project of one HR Huber-Rodriguez.

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