From: “Ordinary Days”

Don't Wanna Be Here

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ADAM GWON

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 Don’t Wanna Be Here
from Ordinary Days
Music and Lyrics by
ADAM GWON

Brightly, with spunk ( = 120)

I grew up in, like, the mid - dle of no-where And I swore I would nev-er go back.

My home - town was, like, the sub-urb of a sub-urb I act-ually

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lived on a cul - de - sac. That’s lit-er-al-ly a road that goes no -

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- where. That’s the def - i - ni - tion of dead end. I said, “I

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can’t wait to learn to do a three-point turn, be - cause I don’t wan - na be here.”

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In four long years, I fin-ished up with high school

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Grad-u - a - ted top of my class. (Thank you.) But in col-lege I dis-cov-ered that de -

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vi - sing my own ma - jor was a bu - reau-crat - ic pain in the ass. I

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thought I’d re - con - text - ual - ize Sar - tre, but could on - ly reg - i - ster for first - year

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French Ha! Well, you should-a heard my mom when I dropped le bomb and said, “I

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don’t wan - na be here, no, I don’t wan - na be here!” Now I am not a

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neg - a - tive per-son, it’s just that I’ve al - ways known that I had pla- ces to go

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Dreams to ful - fill and i - deas to dis - cov - er. They’re just nev - er where I am.

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So, an-y-way, Back at school, I

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wait-ed five se-mes-ters ’til I could snag one of their ran-dom de - grees. I

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moved down South ’cause I heard ev-’ry - one was hir - ing, and they were. At the Ap - ple - bee’s.

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They fi - red me, like, three weeks la - ter. My

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sub - let prompt-ly, whoops, fell through. As I checked in to a ho - tel I said, “It’s

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just as well, be - cause I don’t wan - na be here, no I don’t wan - na be here.” And

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I, I was not a neg - a - tive per-son and so I packed up my bags, though I had

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no place to go. I o-pened a map and said, “Show me my fu - ture! ’Cause it

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is - n’t where I am!” I fin- ’lly got a job at some hum -

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- drum of - fice, like ev - ’ry - one right out of school does. I

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sat there at my cu - bi - cle ev - ’ry day send-ing fax - es, and that’s what my life

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was. Oh, I went back home and said to my par - ents, “I

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know what I’ve got to do. And since I am a dork, I

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moved to New York...

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And I start - ed

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grad school. I real - ly don’t wan-na be here.

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