Collette Savard: Music

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When I started writing this I thought I was writing an overly dramatic song of how I felt about leaving my childhood behind. By the time it was done I realized it was all too accurate. After playing it live for people I realized that it's not just twenty-something's who feel this way. I say we all take a day off to make mud pies in the back yard!

Quarter Life Crisis

I threw my pennies in a wishing well
But all they did was fall
Now I'm stuck here with my hopes
By the fountain at the mall
Everything used to be so easy
When everything was just for now
They say that forty's the new thirty
I don't want to count that far

When he was twenty one he became a star
At the age of seventeen we knew that she would go so far
I missed my chance to break the records
I spoiled my youth now it's all gone
Though I still think I'll live forever
Everyday I'm getting old

I had to take the streamers off my bicycle
The kids in the park they say “hey lady”
And before you know it
They're going to make me have a baby
So I can be just like my mom

Everybody says relax now look how far you've come
All that I can see is everything I have not done

I threw my pennies in a wishing well
But all they did was fall
I look back now to a time when I felt that I could have it all
Now I have to chose my battles
Now I have to work all day
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't
Jealous of the kids at play

I looked into the mirror and saw a wrinkle
I'm sure it's just the way the light did fall
Do you really think they're going to make me have a baby
Cause I can't be just like my mom
just like my mom