Try to Redeem Myself

from The Real Moments by My Boyfriend

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I used to take everything out on you
A generational abandonment issue
I’ve learned to breathe and count to ten

But then you told me you had moved to Texas
So I asked my mom if I could borrow her Lexus
I had to make things up to you

Watch me try to redeem myself
I should reach out and ask for help
I don’t have any self control
Watch me try to prove I have a soul

I didn’t tell my shrink about my plan
He should know that I’m a man
Who needs to fix the things that he has broke

My guilty conscience always gets me in trouble
Especially when I’m seeing double
I don’t think I’m such a nice guy

I saw your dad right outside the dance
I thought that this might be my chance
To sneak my way right back into your life

He convinced me not to take the trip
“Son, the last thing you want to do is make her sick”
I think that he deserves a prize

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from The Real Moments, released August 30, 2019
Andres Arciniega: drums
Jon Paul Arciniega: lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Jorge Arciniega: trumpet
Vanessa Brown: percussion
John Goux: rhythm guitar, lead guitar
Kenya Hathaway: harmony and backing vocals
Morgan Jones IV: electric piano, alto saxophone
Garrett Smith: trombone
Lara Wilson: harmony and backing vocals
Rami Yanni: bass

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“I love My Boyfriend. They’re normal-core mutants from an imaginary 1960s: in which the Beatles took lots of antidepressants that didn't work or an imaginary ’80s in which Jonathan Richman only ever listened to The 5th Dimension and early Philly Soul records.”

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