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They Don't Know About Us

from Literally Main Street by Cataldo

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lyrics

Screaming north in an orange Chevy Nova,
golf ball bouncing in the gas tank, method acting like a grown up.
You're right on my way out past Icicle Grove.
Now that might mean that you’re rich, but it probably means that you’re super poor.
Not that I'd know or care, you met me up on the thoroughfare,
smirking through the window said you told your friends you’re washing your hair.

Cuz they don't know about us.
Yeah, they don't know about us.
Said “I'll totally go, but you're gonna have to pick me up.
Cuz they don't know about us."

Now you’re sitting in my car messing with the radio,
acting like a compliment, and looking for a song you know.
I said “This isn't easy--you can't just say you’re 22.”
You barely roll you eyes and say, "I'm gonna have more luck that you."
Looking for you cousin's friend who hangs around the liquor store.
I think that's probably him--dusty guy chain smoking Newports.

And he don't know about us.
Yeah, he don't know about us.
Give him forty bucks and say, "Cheap gin and Hawaiian Punch."
Cuz he don't know about us.

The air is really getting hot, loudly blowing through the cab.
All the goods safe inside a backpack, going swimming near the dam.
I'm not sure why I'm asking "would you ever want children?”
but you say “It’ll probably happen,” not sounding particularly willing.
Family’s fucked up, got like three creepy uncles.
Your stepdad’s a drunk and your mom is an asshole.

And they don’t know about us.
Yeah, they don’t know about us.
In two more years it's Portland or bust.
Where they won’t know about us.

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from Literally Main Street, released September 27, 2019

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Cataldo has been hailed as “the rare kind of artist who’s able to absorb the chaotic world around him and distill it into crystalline song” by American Songwriter. Keepers has been welcomed as “nostalgic, and effortlessly, poetically profound,” by Nylon and “wistful and hopeful and beautiful, a brightly emotive yet understated slow-build." by Stereogum. ... more

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