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They Will Let You Down

from Out On Our Own by Santa Sprees

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Hero dispenser. Edit to taste.

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See, we started out young and meaning well
Then, a difficult second album we couldn't sell
Led to focus group meetings and divorce
Yeah, we could have written songs full of remorse
But instead we took more drugs and changed our ways
And filed down the edges for radio play
Be seeing you in bigger venues in every town
Don't you hate it when your heroes let you down?

Took a minor role in a major film
Because I've always been an actor within
It's a great little prject about some Ancient Greeks
Yeah, there's Arcadia and me and a golden fleece
It's in development now and will be out in the fall
I am truly excited to be on board
Because nobody can stand still in this town
Don't you hate it when your heroes let you down?

Don't you hate it when artists let you down?
When you have come to rely on them
Then, they will let you down

I'm ashamed of those early records you love
If I had my way, the tapes would be overdubbed
Leaving that band was such a relief
Leaving my miserable wife just to get some peace
And to all my old fans who call me a fraud
I am so excited to be unbored
Because nobody can keep still in this town
Don't you hate it when your heroes let you down?
On and off again
Don't you hate it when your heroes let you down?
And they will again
Don't you hate it when your heroes let you down?

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from Out On Our Own, released September 7, 2023
Written and performed by Anthony & Kazuko Dolphin. Recorded in the Sun Loft, Surugadai, March 2008.

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Santa Sprees

The Anglo-Japanese band Santa Sprees have been advancing the art of unpopular song since 1994. Making questionable progress from the low-skilled, no-fidelity, no wave of their earliest cassettes to the largely futile primitive avant bubblegum of today, releasing ten collections to date on a trail of defunct labels and media. ... more

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