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Little Things Go Wrong

from If Every Day Were Like This One by John Callaghan

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Here's the video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=REybwrvzekI

This was released as a single by Antigen Records in 2017.
antigenrecords.com/releases/little-things-go-wrong/
Cover by Jason Whittaker. Photography by Rachell Smith.

lyrics

You're on a tightrope, direct and dangerous
And you can't cope with distractions and you can't go backward
Your objective is survival after the terms that you have set
The net you make for yourself is a safety net

I have spent a day walking on your wire
But it's not my way and although I tried
Little things kept going wrong

You're in a submarine. it's claustrophic
You're cold and blind to the journey - ah!

The nets that you cast wide have caught you up inside
The things that mattered all along
Are not the little things that will go wrong
As animated clay I have spent a day
Living life your way but little things kept going wrong
Huh - They were important to me at the time, I can tell you

We could have had a paradise of poetry and sodas
Instead of all these hopeful rides and bitter codas
Whoever said no man's an island was an island
In a sea of the air that separates us

Today is a good day to make your dreams a reality

You have exercised your choice, you have used your voice
You don't know where your little boy is and yet you can be strong
But I won't go along
I have stayed at your hotel, I have walked your wire
I have eaten meat but I encountered just defeat
But if it works for you, that's neat
Little things go wrong, little things go wrong
Little things go wrong, little things go wrong
Little things keep going wrong
Oh, but I feel I can be strong
I have spent a day in your closet too
But I couldn't stay. I am not like you
Oh, litle things they will go wrong
As animated clay, I have spent a day
Sucking on your straws but the scheme had flaws
Could you help me lower the television out of the window?
Little things go wrong, little things go wrong,
Little things go wrong, little things go wrong
Little thigs go wrong
Is it pride or am I blind? What did I hope to find?
Every path has room for one and for me things keep going wrong
So they prodded me with a prong
We cast our shadows as we ride, we get caught as our own nets catch us up inside
And yet we can be strong
It must be nearly the end of the song
Little things go wrong, little things go wrong
Little things keep going wrong
Little things they will go wrong
3, 2, 1, wake up
We cast our shadows as we ride, we get caught as our own nets catch us up inside
And yet we can be strong

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from If Every Day Were Like This One, released May 15, 2020

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John Callaghan UK

John Callaghan is an unusual songwriter / performer of thoughtful and spiky electronica from Birmingham (UK).
More of his songs can be found at bleep.com/artist/153 (the stuff on Warp Records, basically, including "I'm Not Comfortable Inside My Mind").
He is 173cm tall, weights 73kg and has a blood pressure of 110/60Hg. ... more

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