Sleep with a Baseball Bat

from Good Grief by Cosmic Johnny

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Oh honey, what did you think you knew?
Last year you thought you couldn’t do
The things you needed to get by
This year you still can’t swing it
And every time you wake up
Thinking this could be the day
Well something, something just

And when your love is an anxiety attack
Don’t settle for that, don’t settle for that
And when you wake and find the claw marks in your back
Sleep with a baseball bat, sleep with a baseball bat

Siena says you’re getting used
But something’s broken in your head
And you can’t run away when you need to
Hey, space cadet
Are you still floating round the rock
That you spent so much of your life trying to get away from?
And does it at least look different from up there?

And when your love is an anxiety attack
Don’t settle for that, don’t settle for that
And when you wake and find the claw marks in your back
Sleep with a baseball bat, sleep with a baseball bat

It might take a couple tries till you believe it
But love is real, you’ll figure it out, you’ll live to see it
But you still have to take a couple of falls
And you can’t make an omelet without breaking your balls
So batter up
Is your bed made?
Is your helmet on?

And when your love is an anxiety attack
When you’re covered in their footprints and the skid marks from the mat
When you’re writing every song as if it’s gonna be your last
Sleep with a baseball bat, sleep with a baseball bat
And when your love is an anxiety attack
Don’t settle for that, don’t settle for that
And when you wake and find the claw marks in your back
Sleep with a baseball bat, sleep with a baseball bat
Sleep with a baseball bat, sleep with a baseball bat

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from Good Grief, released April 28, 2018

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Cosmic Johnny Boston, Massachusetts

3am existential rock for the kids who vaguely know what spacex is but couldn't, like, Describe it to you.

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