Young Professionals

from Young Professionals by Grayson

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We are professionals.
We’re identical,
Lying through our smiles.
We sit in cubicles,
We follow protocol.
We’ve joined the standard rank and file.

Remember this:
To define
Is to own.
We won’t be owned.
Are we sure of ourselves?
Yes and no.
But it’s worth a go.

The prevailing point
Is we are all adults
With suits and ties utilized like shackles.
Let’s circumscribe our lives
As something less
Homogenized; Undefined.

We all said
We’ll find our way.
All the while
Trying to hold
A brave face.

Like blood through arteries
We drive on pot-holed streets
Singing those old hopeful songs.
Although the hope they preach
Has become bittersweet
We still sing along.

We throw our lives
At the walls
To see what sticks
Not to convince
Anyone
Of anything
But for the good it’ll bring.

To avoid reproach
We hide behind
Our suits and ties, but devote
Our free time
To living lives
We’re not embarrassed by.
We’re undefined.

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from Young Professionals, released August 8, 2013

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Grayson Hatfield, Pennsylvania

New EP "Monster" available now!

Grayson is a skate punk-influenced punk rock band from the Philly 'burbs. We started in 2013, broke up for a while, and now we're back.

Grayson is:
Nick Gregorio
Dan Herb
Eric Jaen ... more

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