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Good Egg [Tiny Desk Contest Version]

by Rama Gu

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"Good Egg" as heard in our entry for the 2020 NPR Music Tiny Desk Contest and featured by NPR as part of Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf!:
youtu.be/yT9z_iu5CkI
youtu.be/YXzWPnf6OP0

lyrics

please forgive me, i fucked up again
i didn’t mean to act a fool with your friends
i very nearly pitched a perfect game
but the rain delayed my glory
i almost caught you having fun
but my big, dumb mouth kept on prattling on
giving voice to words that were best
left inside my head

it’s not enough to have good intentions
i gotta work to be the best that i can

a good egg
i just wanna be a good egg
i just wanna be a good egg
i just wanna be

the savage ways we get along
the savage things we have said and done
we savor what’s been salvaged from
the words we left unspoken
there ain’t no way to replace the truth that
you’re a foreign city without a map
i’ve been walking around without a
sense of where i’m goin’

all my dreams are all about you
i don’t ever wanna live without you

a good egg
i just wanna be a good egg
i just wanna be a good egg
i just wanna be

i never claimed to be a perfect human
all i want is to do right by you, yeah

a good egg
i just wanna be a good egg
i just wanna be a good egg
i just wanna be

credits

released August 21, 2020
written by anders kapur

anders kapur - guitar, vocals
charlotte wang - cello, vocals
josh chang - piano
kristen yoonsoo kim - bkgd vocals
natalia rodríguez nuñez - bkgd vocals
izzy kapur - bkgd vocals

recorded by anders in josh's apartment
video shot by george ivanoff with assistance from maria turcotte
papercraft tiny desk constructed by izzy kapur
cover photo by josh chang

thanks to gina chavez and bob boilen for selecting it for npr tiny desk contest top shelf! and to emma munger for lending me her zoom recorder

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