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Overheard conversation: ‘I’m a high school drop out and I’m livin’ the dream’. Why I sometimes feel like Mr. Magoo. Or that cartoonist for The Village Voice who would quietly listen in on two talkers and make up a 4 panel cartoon based on it. In someways this is a nasty but also liberating song. Miles Coleman has the face for it. I waited to post the video until October as an ahem ‘wedding present’ too Miles and Dana. Also, it had to be in black n white 'noir'.

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HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT

I’m a high school dropout
and im living the dream
ain’t gonna die in no hospital
im gonna die on the street
I’m a high school dropout
and im living the dream
I’m a high school dropout
i ain’t no beauty queen

in any town in any city
there’s a bar where i belong
there’s a fire in a snowbank
w just enough heart
to keep me warm

I’m a high school dropout
and im living the dream
ain’t gonna die ion no hospital
im gonna die on the street

oh i got plans and i got work
and i got friends i believe in
and just the other day
i threw a cherry bomb
in a pond
ya should o seen it

when the darkness becomes me
that’s when i smile
and all the ladies walking by me
they stop for awhile

I’m a high school dropout
and im living the dream
I’m a high school dropout
i ain’t no beauty queen

high school dropout!

credits

from GREAT BIG HOUSE, released July 4, 2019
The Band:

Robby Manochio (guitars)
Ricky McLean (guitar)
Jane Mangini (keys)
David Goodchild (bass)
Chris Antonovitch (kit, percussion)
Sam Dudley (trombone)
Zach Olson (sax)
Berlin (vocals)

We are psyched to be partnering with
WIREFOREST LLC (WALTER SICKERT AND THE ARMY OF TOYS)
on releasing Maggie
and on our full record GREAT BIG HOUSE when it’s completed.

Studios:

Recording:

Wasabi/Street Noise (for vocals, bass, guitar, horns)
Jane recorded and ‘flew’ her tracks up from the Poconos

Mixing:

Bitch Kitty Studios
TJ Wenzl engineer

Mastering:
Brian Charles
Zippah Studios

Produced by TJ Wenzl with the band

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Rick Berlin (now playing w/ THE NICKEL & DIME BAND) Jamaica Plain

A giant on the Boston music scene. His colorful songwriting + strong stage presence have influenced countless other artists since the early 1970s. He continues to make music w/ intelligence + integrity, building an international reputation around his knotty, singular piano playing, straight-from-the-heart singing and a style of character-based songwriting that's drawn comparisons to Waits + Cohen ... more

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