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(What If This Is) The Good Part?

from Slight of Hand by The Oven Mitts

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The baby’s crying
And the mortgage is due
I’ve been thinking
What if wishes came true
My wife is locked
In the bathroom again
Crying, crying
She still regrets dropping out of school

We’ve been saving
For a trip to Madrid
Since the wedding
Since we had our third kid
Another summer
In our one story hell
Then another and another
Our boys swim good at the rec center pool

You better change your attitude
And now’s the time you should start
Nobody knows what the future holds
It could fold or blow apart
What if this is the good part

I almost crash
When I’m driving these streets
My body’s burning
Just another dead heat
I ask the heavens
How to break this curse
I’m trying, trying
I may be risk-averse, but aren’t we all

If I could do
Anything that I want
I’d probably open
A Mexican restaurant
I would hire
Everyone that I know
Like my brother and my mother
But the bigger you dream, the harder you fall

You better change your attitude
And now’s the time you should start
Nobody knows what the future holds
It could fold or blow apart
What if this is the good part

Next page, next chapter
Whatever’s after could be small
We’re all ready to be winners
No one’s prepared to lose it all
What if this is the good part

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from Slight of Hand, released April 9, 2021

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The Oven Mitts Los Angeles, California

An eclectic blend of clever power pop (think Fountains of Wayne or They Might Be Giants), 60's-ish pop (think Harry Nilsson or The Monkees), and singer-songwriter songs (think John Prine).

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