Name: Don't Try
Duration: 3 min 52 s
Channel: Eric Kalenze
Description: "Don't Try" is a song by gawker slowdown.

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gawker slowdown

songs from a twin cities basement

I'm Eric Kalenze, and Gawker Slowdown is the name I've given my little musical hobby. While I'm currently in a state of semi-retirement from music, I still write and play out occasionally. All songs on this site were written, performed, and recorded by me in my Twin Cities basement.

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Folk Rock

Charts

Peak #76

Peak in subgenre #13

Author

Eric Kalenze

Rights

2009, Eric Kalenze

Uploaded

December 05, 2009

Track Files

MP3

MP3 8.9 MB • 320 kbps • 3:52

Lyrics

Magnificent, miraculous
The accident that begat us 
To crawl from the slime
Not satisfied with just survivin'
Wanna know the hows and whys and
Argue design
Sometimes I'd rather be a fish in the sea
Where existential questions wouldn't bother me
The curse of evolution
This riddle with no solution,
I don't try

That's not to say I haven't looked
The toll that findin' answers took
Added up real fast
So many broken hearts later
Had to get all Darth Vader 
To make up for my past
Now I know the only ones I need to guide my way
Are those I sit down to dinner with each day
Keep laughin', keep learnin'
And on our unintended journey,
We don't try

It means something to me
All I can ask for, ultimately
It don't have to fit into some big scheme
For me want to grab it and wring it dry
For me to wonder at the miracle of you and I
For me to wish we could have clean, clear skies
Or peace in our lives

Keep laughin', keep learnin'
And on this unintended journey,
Don't try

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