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Nostalgia

from Surreal Talk by Tom Swifty

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This is absolutely one of the most personal songs I've ever written. It started as a poem, which I performed in competition at the National Poetry Slam in Austin, Texas in 2006, with the first ever St. Paul Slam Team (who went on to win two years in a row without me, in 2009 and 2010). I reworked it a bit to make it rhyme better and included some new bars about my good friend Justin Flesher, who tragically left us a few years ago. Not to be too big a downer, though, with this song I tried to capture the bittersweet feeling of looking back at a life that can never exist again. "I got my first lay like everyone else: nervous and awkward."

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from Surreal Talk, released August 1, 2014
Music: Sleep Less Do More. Lyrics and vocals: Tom Swifty.

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Tom Swifty New York, New York

Born in Springfield, Illinois, and raised in the southern Midwest of Missouri, Ezra Stead became Tom Swifty in Minneapolis when he began rapping live and recording quality tracks over ten years ago. Before that, they were... not so quality. Back in Minneapolis after 10 years in NYC, Swifty's latest albums prove that he's never been better. ... more

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