Name: Shaving
Duration: P00H03M42S
Description: (I don't know if a younger me would recognise me now.)

Shaving

from Shaving by CHEWIE

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(I don't know if a younger me would recognise me now.)

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I’ve been dragging razor blades over my face for about ten years straight, from the week I turned thirteen. Well, yesterday I turned twenty-three. Dad used to joke that he could shave with a knife. I’ve never seen a cut on his face in all of my life. I hope my skin thickens into the kind of man I want to be.

You’re numb? Yeah, sure, I’ve been numb. It’s when you have so many choices, you end up choosing none. And you’re bored, I think I know the sort. As long as you don’t end up there as your first resort.

One time a drunk news presenter from RTE, took the time out of her busy night to explain to me, that boredom is a pretty recent term and forty years ago, no one used the word

And there is so much more than this, some people survive by the skin of their wrist. And I had to let you know.

I saw what was basically a child propped up on stage. He proceeded to say nothing in the loudest way. I lock my jaw so tight, point my eyes at the ground, in a futile effort to repel the sound.

As my mind starts to wander away, it calls back just to ask me was I ever this way?
The chords seem so familiar, although his speech is slurred. I notice we’ve the same shaving lines as he utters the words:

And there is so much more than this, some people survive by the skin of their wrist. And I had to let you know

Things won’t be the same again.

At six a.m., eight years ago, I was lying in the middle of the Old Bawn Road, singing “I don’t care if any cars come, I won’t rise before the sun.”

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from Shaving, track released August 22, 2010

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CHEWIE Dublin, Ireland

DIY Punk from Dublin, Ireland.

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Stafford, UK
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Southampton, UK

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