I Can Be Sad

from Failure Familiar by SHELTER BOY

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With a dazzling palette of sound—from the stretched-out rock anthems of Oasis, to the languid guitar-pop of Mac DeMarco, and the woozy beat-driven songcraft of King Krule—the debut album by Shelter Boy is a striking introduction to an artist using classic ideas to mine modern life’s pitfalls.

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lyrics

With that confusion What can I do
And all the darkness That I’ve been through

You read my eyes
But not my mind
You’re reading lies
then tell me that I ́m just too blind

And now I just can ́t see what you ́ve been trying
You blamed it all on me before you tried giving me time And girl I think it is the best
to pick the bits you love and let my body rest

Forgot about the darker side
I found when I picked up a fight
I drowned, got paralyzed
Dreaming of another paradise
I see nothing when I close my eyes
Feel something when you’re round my thighs I see nothing when I close my eyes
Feel something when you’re round my thighs

And now I just can ́t see what you ́ve been trying
You blamed it all on me before you tried giving me time And now I just can ́t see what you ́ve been trying
You blamed it all on me before you tried giving me time And girl I think it ́s the best
to pick the bits you love and let my body rest

I can be sad sometimes I have to be

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from Failure Familiar, released September 10, 2021

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SHELTER BOY Leipzig, Germany

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May 24

Sektor Heimat

Saarbrücken, Germany
Oct 10

Atomino

Chemnitz, Germany
Oct 12

Eulexo

Brunswick, Germany
Oct 15

Peter-Weiss-Haus

Rostock, Germany
Oct 16

Molotow

Hamburg, Germany
Oct 17

Drucklufthaus

Oberhausen, Germany
Oct 18

Kulturzentrum Engelsburg

Erfurt, Germany
Oct 19

Ponyhof Club

Frankfurt, Germany
Oct 23

Club Stereo

Nuremberg, Germany
Oct 25

The Great Räng Teng Teng

Freiburg, Germany
Oct 26

Gebäude 9

Cologne, Germany
Oct 30

Kulturladen Kfz

Marburg, Germany
Nov 1

Sudhaus, Peripherie

Tübingen, Germany
Nov 2

Zauberberg

Passau, Germany
Nov 6

Alte Mälzerei

Regensburg, Germany
Nov 7

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Munich, Germany
Nov 8

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Innsbruck, Austria
Nov 9

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Vienna, Austria

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