Name: Is This Really How I'm Gunna Die?
Duration: P00H00M59S
Description: I was a lifeguard at a little bayside resort and hotel for a summer.... I'd make up little jingles in my head and record them on my tape record on my drive home...

Is This Really How I'm Gunna Die?

from Grunts and Groans From Reptar's Belly by Walter Etc.

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I was a lifeguard at a little bayside resort and hotel for a summer.... I'd make up little jingles in my head and record them on my tape record on my drive home...

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Vicodin drones and trembling bones
Is this really how I'm gunna die?
Chemical based smile on my face
Is this really how I'm gunna die?

Little girls sipping on pink lemonade
and little boys catching all the crabs in the bay
I'm just sitting here watching from above
my whole body's numb from prescription drugs

i'm getting old a pill at a time
is this really how I'm gunna die?

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from Grunts and Groans From Reptar's Belly, released November 1, 2010

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