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How Come?

from Pop Quiz by The Ocean Floor

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So, it's fitting that the first and the last songs on "Pop Quiz" were the first and last I wrote in this style. This song just poured out a final laundry list of questions I have had over the years. It is the most simply arranged tune on the album, as it should be. This song is here for the lyrics.
Some of the lyrics are less randomly selected than they appear to be. For instance, the "endless schools of dance" line is a reference to how I was made to take tap and jazz lessons for 7 years from age 4 on and I hated it at the time. Now I look back at it all as a vivid and touching memory and how I wish I could hang on to all that invaluable knowledge I once received. "Friday? June? That's when I was born!"

Ok goodbye reader, this has been fun to do.

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How come arms? How come legs? How come chickens inside eggs?
How come muscles always stretching out but bones prefer to break?
How come life? How come dreams? How come nothing in between?
How come things appearing so close to the way that they should seem?
How come sports? How come arts? How come races ever start?
How come people thinking actresses are born to play the part?
How come princes? How come toads? How come endless winding roads?
How come deep breaths causing hearts to keep their cool and not explode?
How come hats? How come gloves? How come push can come to shove?
How come those who are to shy to ask can't know the warmth of love?
How come fault lines? How come shores? How come people slamming doors?
How come anyone's still justifying things they've said before?
How come truth? How come lies? How come things we still deny?
How come lovers can't explain themselves but they always seem to try?
how come fate? how come chance? how come endless schools of dance?
How come memories i used to hate grow towards the sun like plants?
How come friday? How come june? How come rings around the moon?
How come nobody can keep their cool and they fall in love to soon?
How come starts? How come ends? How come lovers look like friends?
How come journeys come with hardships never guessed when they begin?
How come wind? How come rain? How come years and years of pain?
How come everything we wished we'd said but never knew the name?

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from Pop Quiz, released July 13, 2010

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