Album: A Star Is Born Soundtrack (2018)

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• Tell me something, girl
  Are you happy in this modern world?
  Or do you need more?
  Is there somethin' else you're searching for?
  
  I'm falling
  In all the good times I find myself
  Longin' for change
  And in the bad times I fear myself
  
  Tell me something, boy
  Aren't you tired tryin' to fill that void?
  Or do you need more?
  Ain't it hard keeping it so hardcore?
  
  I'm falling
  In all the good times I find myself
  Longing for a change
  And in the bad times I fear myself
  
  I'm off the deep end, watch as I dive in
  I'll never meet the ground
  Crash through the surface, where they can't hurt us
  We're far from the shallow now
  
  In the sha-ha, sha-hallow
  In the sha-ha, sha-la-la-la-low
  In the sha-ha, sha-hallow
  We're far from the shallow now
  
  I'm off the deep end, watch as I dive in
  I'll never meet the ground
  Crash through the surface, where they can't hurt us
  We're far from the shallow now
  
  In the sha-ha, shallow
  In the sha-ha, sha-la-la-la-low
  In the sha-ha, shallow
  We're far from the shallow now Writer/s: Andrew Wyatt, Anthony Rossomando, Mark D. Ronson, Stefani J. Germanotta
  Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 1

• Left High Kick from Middle Class Usa This is a good song but I don’t listen to it unless I’m high, which I am now.
  My old girlfriend and I used to listen to this on occasion and we saw the movie together.
  
  “...And the good times I find myself longing for change...”
  
  That makes me think. Of my past, of hers and our time together.
  She would tell me that was me. Because I couldn’t be happy in the present. Well not exactly, but she was onto something.
  
  I don’t think she could be entirely happy in the present either so she was talking about herself. At least in part. She was always preoccupied with something. Her kids, the stress of her family, and always obsessing and worrying about the future, and could not be happy in the present moment. At least that’s what I thought. We started fighting more and more about the future. And I told her in the beginning : this is how it’s going to be and this is how I am and what I want. This would come up at least every six months.
  
  And now that it’s over, I find myself looking back. And actually longing for times with her. Because they were in abundance, and they were special to me. I never love that way again, I never feel that way again. But that’s life. I’m learning nothing stays the same forever. It has to move forward or it has to dissolve.
  
  We broke past the shallow end and approach a lot of touchy subjects. And she knows me like no one else.
  
  Son los cosas de vida.
  
  

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