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Class Dismissed

from fin​(​n) by Smoky Ghosts of Big Trees

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You carry the ability to time travel. Whether you use it is up to you, but steer clear of the doppelgänger generation gap and maybe look at somebody ELSE’S humiliating vignettes instead of fixating on old episodes that aren’t going to change, no matter how many times you revisit them.

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She was hanging on to the past
It was pretty vivid, let me tell ya
Jokes about her pituitary
Living for posterity

All of us there, frozen in time
Name tags, book bags
Single-file lines
You can see their faces,
They still exist
Put away your pencils
Class dismissed.

Gave him a nickname
Never knew why
I feel so bad
He was an ordinary guy
And I tried to let him know
But the damage was done
And I saw the wound in his eyes
Kennedy hair, freckles and a Polish name
I wonder what ever became of him
What ever became, became, became…

All of us there, frozen in time
Name tags, book bags
Single-file lines
You can see their faces,
They still exist
Put away your pencils
Class dismissed

Popular boy with gel in his hair
A future farmer with an earring to wear
Well aware he was making waves
But five years went by, he was in a sty
Dishing out the slop
And he remembers the counselor’s daughter
As he sends another pig off to the slaughter

Junior high crush
Embarrassed himself
Embellished himself for one bad reason
To try and pick fruit that wasn’t in season
And to swallow sugar he couldn’t digest
And he wished she’d hand him a shiny knife
He could gladly thrust in his chest
The wounds stop bleeding over time
But he never shook the cringe from his bed

All of us there, frozen in time
Name tags, book bags
Single-file lines
You can see their faces,
They still exist
Put away your pencils
Class dismissed

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from fin​(​n), released July 7, 2023
Kelley Chambers yells out during this track. We asked him not to.

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The whooping went on, and in about a minute I come a-booming down on a cut bank with SMOKY GHOSTS OF BIG TREES on it, and the current throwed me off to the left and shot by, amongst a lot of snags that fairly roared, the current was tearing by them so swift. - Mark Twain “Huckleberry Finn” ... more

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