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Avoiding Potholes ( An Ode to Heroin)

from Fall Into Place or Pieces by John Cozz

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This is a song about driving on the worst highway I know, route 21. This is the highway I take to school on a day to day basis, I spend a lot of my time on it at all hours of the day. I have had a variety of emotions and thoughts to the point where I couldn't really pinpoint a specific moment or thought i had while driving on this highway. However, I think one of the most continuous thoughts I have is the ones in which are spoken about during the break down of this song. I often wonder why am I digging myself deeper and deeper into a culture of people ( my college peers) that I can not fit in with. Is spending all this money on going to school to get a high paying job for a family that could very well never exist worth it if I truly do not like it? I don't know, like I said I don't have the answers to these questions so I guess I'll just have to wait to find out.
Along with that the alternative name of the song "An Ode to Heroin" as nothing to do with myself doing heroin. I have never done it and I will never do it. The heroin I am talking about is the Lou Reed song, which was a huge influence for me when writing this song. I wanted to be able to pay homage to him and that song in some way and this was my way of doing that. Lou Reed's music was so influential and I think Heroin is one of the best songs ever written, it just gets the juices flowing in me.

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I'm transparent, I'm transparent.
When I'm driving in my car racing down this highway on my way to Newark and I'm singing I'm singing along to another one of your fucking songs.
I'm speeding past the dealers as they transport all the heroin as they transport all the heroin as they transport all the heroin!!!!

"What am I doing? What's the point of going to school? What's the point of working? What's the point of pleasing people? I don't get it, who am i pleasing? What am I trying to do? Who am I trying to be? Why? Why am I doing this to myself? Why am I putting myself through this endless torture of going to school and I don't even know if I'm going to get a job? What if you don't like the job that you get? I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I WANNA DO WITH MY LIFE! WHY AM I DOING THIS! WHY AM I DOING THIS! WHY AM I DOING THIS! I don't know I don't have the answers, I'll just keep doing this until something else happens. Well maybe something else will happen but what if nothing ever does? What if i just working in a fucking office for the rest of my fucking life and I become a miserable piece of shit like everyone else I know? What if I stay at home forever? What if I never meet anybody? What If I never have a family? What if I fucking do this?

At least I could look out at the river and think about my grandmother and how she used to swim in it and how we fucked it up. Then I question my whole life then I question my whole life.
As I exit off the highway and i travel through the slums I look at all the people and I'm not far from being one of them.
I can't help but think, no i can't help but think. When I'm driving I'm driving I'm driving on 21.

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from Fall Into Place or Pieces, released December 20, 2015

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