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Hope

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Comedy

Hope was released on June 26, 2020 by 800 Pound Gorilla Records as a part of the album Until Now

Song Details

Release DateJune 26, 2020

Label800 Pound Gorilla Records

LanguageEnglish

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM103

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LYRICS

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Alex Edelman

Performer

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Alex Edelman

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Alex Edelman

Producer

Anthony Leo

Producer

Tyler Whitlatch

Tyler Whitlatch

Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

But I think about it a lot and a few years ago I got an email asking

If I wanted to be part of this, uh, test to see how millennial I

Was. And I take tests online for free all day and so I was like

"I'll take a test." Like, you know what I mean? I take like those

Online tests like, "What Sex and the City character are you?" Like

"What flavor of cupcake are you? How much existential loneliness

Do you feel?" And it's like, by the way, Miranda, chocolate, lots

And so I went down, I took this test and they ranked me on four

Categories: politics, education, workplace, and personal. My

Politics are pretty much like every other millennial's in that I

Didn't care about politics and then Barack Obama and then I really

Cared about politics. I loved Barack Obama. I was too into Barack

Obama. I volunteered for Barack Obama. I stood on a street corner

And I held a clipboard and I wore a t-shirt and I was like, "

My favorite color is hope! My favorite ice cream flavor is change!"

And it's because he was young. And my parents were like, "You just

Like him 'cause he's black." I'm like, "No, I like him for a dumber

Reason. I like him 'cause he's young. That is a dumber reason. We

All get a chance to be young. We don't all get a chance to be black."

And he was running against the oldest dude who had ever lived

John McCain. When I turned eighteen, he was running against

John, the old, the photo negative of Barack Obama. John McCain's

The oldest man who's ever existed. It's John McCain, the

Emperor from Star Wars, nobody. John McCain is in the Bible

I swear to God. If you open up to the second page of the Bible

There's McCain killing his brother McCain Abel. He's so old

And I volunteered for Barack Obama in a very racist part of Boston

Called Boston. And I had to drive people to vote and I had this woman

Who lived upstairs from me named Miss Larry and she was ninety-three

Years old in 2008. And like, Miss Larry, like, could never tell me

And my brothers apart. She always called us by the same name, Jew

I remember driving her to the polls and I was like, 'cause when

You're ninety-something years old, you need to

Be driven places. You can't just like propel

Yourself forward with hate. It doesn't work that way

And so I'm driving her and I said, "Miss Larry, you know about

John McCain?" Figuring she'd be like, "Yeah, I went to high school

With him." And she goes, "No." And I was like, "No?" And she went

"No." And I'm like, "Wow." And like, I'm waiting outside the

Voting booth for her to finish up 'cause that's how we vote in

Massachusetts. There's a booth with a curtain, you go in, you pull

The lever for the candidate you want and you leave. It's not like

That in all states. In Florida, the way you vote is you write

The name you want on a napkin and you throw it in the air and you

Make a wish and then you run. So hence all the difficulty, right?

But I'm waiting outside this voting booth enjoying this moment

Of post-racial America where like an old racist white lady who's

Probably not even psyched that like Barack Obama can drink out

Of the same water fountain as her is voting for him. And I'm

Enjoying this moment and Miss Larry sticks her head out from

Behind the curtain, she goes, "Hey, Jew! I left my glasses in

The car. Which lever do I pull for the colored fella?" And I was

Like, "I was enjoying a moment! Do you have to ruin the moment?"

Written by: Alex Edelman

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