Walking DUIs

from DEMO by The Happy Yew

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When you grow up with functioning alcoholics for parents, you get used to driving with walking DUIs. And at times you might even hope they slip up. Because that red convertible would give you no shelter from a collision with a telephone pole or a rival driver. Sometimes you just sit in the back with the wind blowing endlessly through hair and wait for impact. And when your father takes his hands off the wheel to sing along with the deafening pop music emitting from the specialty subwoofers he had installed purely to "wake up the neighbors". You can't help but flinch. Maybe out of fear or more likely out of anticipation. One things for certain though, you intentionally didn't wear a seatbelt.

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from DEMO, released July 2, 2017
Written by E and Brooks

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