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Don't Meet Your Heroes

from Sick Day by My Neighbor Kellan

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Don’t meet your heroes
They can only disappoint you
It’s pretty clear, though
that all signs point to
a shit-brained ploy to
Cast off your good sense
‘I challenge you
To find another person
so worthy so true’

You can’t fault them anything at all

Don’t meet your heroes
Don’t you know that gods were meant to be killed
Knocked back to zero
Doomed to live a life among the unfulfilled
Golden age actor beat his wife
The wall of sound that took a life

Build them up to watch them fall

You can hang on every word they say
Spin like a top
Don’t come to me when eventually
you start to rock
In a back and forth sway
‘cause no matter which way
I will let you drop

Don’t meet your heroes
The surface lies, the beast it hides below
It lives in fear, though
And with prying eyes it only grows
Funny man with a fistful of surprise
The athlete that peddles in dope and lies

Flip the switch and watch the visage fall

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from Sick Day, released October 16, 2020

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My Neighbor Kellan Austin, Texas

Kellan played a driveway show for his neighbor's party. The act was listed as 'My Neighbor Kellan' on the invite. People assumed it was a band name. Now it is. Influenced by the sounds and lyrical stylings of Stephen Malkmus, the riffs and weaving guitars of Built To Spill, and the emotion and vulnerability of Elliott Smith, Kellan makes bedroom music. Often in his underpants. ... more

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