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It Ain't Important Now

from Catholic School by Joey Sweeney & The Neon Grease

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IT AIN’T IMPORTANT NOW

Hey rock 'n' roll DJ in the middle of the day
I rolled a spliff during my coffee break and then I got paid
Now I'm cleaning out my desk
By mid-afternoon I'll be painting the town
What was important to me then?
It ain't important now
Well I'm used to it now but it wasn't always this way
I had a wife, I had a home, I was oh-so-steady
But you get older, you know and some things, they tend to break down
What was important to me then?
It ain't important now
It ain't important now
It ain't important now
Man I got other things to worry about
It ain't important now
Tick-tock can't you drown out that beautiful girl
I have vacated the graces of the good people of the world
And I'm afraid if I stop now
They'd find it was just the chemicals keepin' me alive
Oh don't you talk to me about addicted
Everybody's just addicted to getting by
It ain't important now
It ain't important now
Man I got other things to worry about
It ain't important now
Hey rock 'n' roll DJ it's still me here on the line
Don't let nothing get in the way of a pretty good time
I had a mantra once, you see
But now I push this gospel plow
What was important to me then?
It ain't important now.

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from Catholic School, released September 7, 2018
From: JOEY SWEENEY & THE NEON GREASE · CATHOLIC SCHOOL

Produced by Ray Ketchem and Joey Sweeney
at Magic Door Montclair NJ

Joey Sweeney — guitars, vocals
Jared Styles — bass
Alec Meltzer — drums
Kevin Bohannon — saxophone
Alan Carroll — keys
with:
Renée LoBue — vocals

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Joey Sweeney has recorded and performed as a solo artist, with The Barnabys and The Trouble With Sweeney, receiving widespread critical acclaim; of his last record with The Trouble With Sweeney, Pitchfork said “[Sweeney] mixes autobiography and fiction against the group’s 70s-inflected indie pop, resourceful— and unabashed— enough to digress into an E Street interlude or an AM-rock guitar coda.” ... more

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