From: “Ordinary Days”

Calm
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ADAM GWON

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 Calm
from Ordinary Days
Music and Lyrics by
Adam Gwon

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So: I am on the six train head-ing up-town to my lit pro - fes-sor’s of - fice, it’s, like,

sempre staccato

light years off of cam-pus, don’t ask me why. I’m sand-wiched in bet-ween this guy who’s

lit - er - al - ly drool-ing and some Eur - o - pe - an hip - ster who, well, let’s be hon - est: smells.

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Wood-y Al-len heard Gersh - win in the air when he thought “Man-hat - tan.” Well,

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I’m not so im-pressed; I hear, like, Phil-lip Glass at best I wish I could take a sec-ond to get

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calm... But it’s not work-ing ’cause, like,

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clear-ly I’m a mag-net for a spec-ial breed of psy-cho who thinks be - ing weird’s a val - u - a - ble

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use of time. And my note-book likes to wan-der on its own a - cross the cit - y, tak - ing

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with it my whole the - sis, which I need to write, like, now. I don’t re - mem-ber the Mup -

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- pets get - ting hives when they took Man - hat - tan But

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my own di - ag - no - sis is I’m creep-ing toward psy-cho - sis ’cause I can- not find a place to get

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calm... It’s real-ly hard, you know, I

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tried to take up yo - ga but you’d be sur - prised how man - y folks don’t think de -

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o - dor - ant is “zen.” I e - ven saw a life coach who told me I should

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breathe. “Just breathe.” But ev - ’ry time I took

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in a breath, I vis - ual - ized that life coach - ’s death: She’s

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hav - ing brunch at Ca - fe Pi - erre and she’s chok-ing and chok-ing and

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chok-ing and chok-ing ’til fi - nal-ly she’s calm.

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I’m sor - ry. An - y-way: I get to my pro - fes-sor’s and he

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sits me down and tells me that my the - sis on Vir - gin - ia Woolf feels some - how “false.” I

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tell him what I’m work-ing from is not so much a “the - sis” as the fact that she went cra - zy and that

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seems, well, ap - ro - pos. My pro-fes-sor just toss - es back his head... and a

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dry Man-hat - tan. I’m won-d’ring which will kill him quick-er: the Big Ap-ple or the liq-uor? when

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sud-den-ly I pan-ic and I tell my-self I must get some-place calm. I up and

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run to - ward Penn Sta - tion like I’d swear my head was read - y to blow And I

8va

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hop a train to Jer - sey just as fast as an - y per - son can go. Then

8va

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nine - ty min - utes out I get off at some pro-vin - cial ham - let I’ve ne-ver

dim.

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heard of. There’s a real es-tate of - fice right on the block. I can af -

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ford a two-bed-room, I go in - to shock. I think, “What the heck.” I write a check. ’Cause there’s

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sun-light and clos-ets and laun-dry... But most-ly it’s calm...

slowly, legato expansively, a tempo

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Calm... Calm...

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Calm... Calm.

as before

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Real-ly calm. Strange - ly calm.

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Like, Times Square at five a. m. calm. Like, to - tal - ly freak me out

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calm. Like, I’m gon-na slow-ly go cra-zy and throw my-self off of the bal-co - ny

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accel. e cresc...
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calm. Damn it. So: I

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tear up my de - pos - it and I head back to Penn Sta - tion. Of course, the sub-way’s bro- ken so I

colla voce

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walk four mi - les home. And like four-teen ho - urs lat - er I get back to my a - part - ment with my

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cra - zy spas- tic room-mates and a room, well, of my own. I’ve got this black-and-white post -

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- er on my wall that says, “My Man - hat - tan.”

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And I give it the fin - ger. But I let my gaze lin - ger. And I

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no-tice how the peo-ple look like ti-ny specks of grey, all hap - haz-ard-ly ar-ranged just like they were in that Mo-net. And

slower, colla voce

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sud - den - ly I’m struck by this bi - zar - ro rev - e - la - tion that, like,

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War - ren’s whacked-out the - ory might de - serve some ex - plor - a - tion. I

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sit on my bed and I real-ize I’m fi-nal-ly... Calm.

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rall. a tempo

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