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Not Aloud

from 50 Songs in 50 Weeks by Jake Haws

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This song was first written back in my sophomore year of high school. The lyrics are from the perspective of someone in jail who is longing to be back outside. At the time, I kind of envisioned it sounding like a rock power ballad along the lines of Radiohead’s Fake Plastic Trees but I later on when I recorded it, it came out more along the lines of the band Low.

Podcast Episode: jakehaws.com/ep-71-song-not-aloud-influenced-by-low/

lyrics

Watch out they're coming,
Quickly shoving to the gate,
What am I looking for,
A missing key to the door of my fate.

But I'm not aloud here,
Not aloud here,
Not aloud here today.

Looking through the bars,
I can see speeding cars as they roll on by,
Then I realize that I've been on the inside this whole time,
And it doesn't surprise my why.

But I'm not aloud here,
Not aloud here,
Not aloud here today.

Searching, what can you see,
Seems that I have lost the key and it can't be found,
I'm patiently waiting, slowly anticipating,
But I'm not aloud.

I'm not aloud here,
I'm not aloud here,
I'm not aloud here today.

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from 50 Songs in 50 Weeks, released December 31, 2012
Jake Haws - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums

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