Name: (What's Past Is) Prologue
Duration: P00H01M18S
Description: "Today's a new opportunity, tomorrow brings another one still," I sang in "Sad Songs" on Tubular Socks. This song is more or less the same theme as that one - sometimes we get sad. Let's stop that. The song includes a reference to the song "Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba nestled neatly in a reference to the song "Jocko Homo" by Devo, in case my influences weren't already clear enough.

(What's Past Is) Prologue

from Optimist by Kevin Calaway

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"Today's a new opportunity, tomorrow brings another one still," I sang in "Sad Songs" on Tubular Socks. This song is more or less the same theme as that one - sometimes we get sad. Let's stop that. The song includes a reference to the song "Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba nestled neatly in a reference to the song "Jocko Homo" by Devo, in case my influences weren't already clear enough.

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A new beginning, the ending's old
A sadder story than I've been told
Another cycle? Well, here we go
Whatever glimmers might just be gold

What kind of people are we to just give up when times are tough?
Are we not men? We are Chumbawamba on this blessed day.
I've spent enough of my life lying flat on my back to know just how easy it is to get back up.
This is not the end for us.

A new beginning, the ending's old
A sadder story than I've been told
Another cycle? Well, here we go
Whatever glimmers might just be gold
What's past is prologue.

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from Optimist, released June 5, 2018

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Kevin Calaway Seattle, Washington

I could while away the hours conferring with the flowers, consulting with the rain - but who has time for that? I regulate my mood with musical catharsis and publish my diary on the internet for the whole world to hear, wearing my heart and my influences on my sleeve like a man who really needs to do laundry. ... more

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