Wayback Machine

Shaun here. I was looking through my closet for something and I found all these old drawings of mine and a notepad from 1994 that I thought was blank but turned out has a bunch of things written in it. On the last page, I found what turned out to be the words to a song — an original song that I wrote.

It’s so devestatingly terrible. Below is the first song I ever wrote. All of the [ ] are corrections I added for clarity. It looks as if I didn’t read this over after I wrote it.

TIME MACHINE BACK TO EARLY 1995

“Life is like a subway”

Heading on the dirt roads
Going past the cross roads
Nearing [all] the back roads
Going up te on ramp
Cruising on the interstate
I hope I’m not to[o] late
just getting [on] the highway that
leads to the subway of life…..

Life is like a subway always trying to derail me
(du, du, du, du du du du)
Life is like a subway always trying to derail me

This, ladies and gentlemen, is proof positive that even in 3rd grade I could write Bright Eyes/Simple Plan/Starting Line/Yellowcard/Insert your favorite punk band here quality lyrics.

-Shaun