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Life is a Loan Shark

from Life is a Loan Shark by High Heavens

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Music by Jeremy Erwin, Ernest Salaz, Nick Pellicciotto, Jonathan Skaggs, and John Matthew Walker. Words by John Matthew Walker.

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What you got to be sad about?

Your bills are paid
Your teeth are clean
Your bed is made
By hands they aren’t as soft as yours
You open doors by grinning
You skip the line by smiling
You’ve got everything but your stomach is sick

Oh la la la
La de da
Love never gives you a thing that it won't soon reclaim

You found a note to yourself that you left as a child
Should you ever need something to pray on
You hope it might be some kind of map back home
Scribbled in crayon

When I was a barefoot boy walking in the woods
I found a stack of magazines
They’ve been picked apart by vultures
In ball caps and blue jeans
All the naughty parts were gone
Yeah the bones were clean

Oh la la la
La de da
Life never gives you a thing in its totality, you see

Life’s a loan shark, yeah
Everyone’s paying through the teeth
Tell me that ain’t true

You’re not the only one

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from Life is a Loan Shark, track released August 24, 2022
John Matthew Walker: vocals
Juan Ramos: drums
George Lara: bass guitar
Jeremy Erwin: electric piano, synths
Ernest Salaz: guitar, tambourine, backing vocals
Conrad Keely: electric piano
Derek Hatley: shaker
Ehren Lorfing: snare roll

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High Heavens Austin, Texas

“Life is a Loan Shark” is the latest 2022 release from Austin, TX band High Heavens, now a duo with members Ernest Salaz and John Matthew Walker, and features Jeremy Erwin on keyboards, George Lara and Juan Ramos from '90s art-punk band Glorium, and Conrad Keely from ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead. ... more

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