Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Young Jesus - Bully (live in Esmont, VA)
from Moonlight b/w Bully
Order: youngjesus.scfm.me/thefool

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AUDIO CREDITS
John Rossiter: Lead Vocals, Piano

Written by John Rossiter
Produced by Dawood Nadurath
Engineered by Dawood Nadurath
Mixed by Phil Weinrobe
Mastered by Kern Haug

LYRICS
There’s a bully in your bloodstream
There’s goodness too
And goodness you have your mama’s voice
Daddy’s feet
Nana’s eyes and Grandpa’s teeth
There’s an element of evil in
What you were, at age eighteen
You could blame it on the bloodstream, yeah
You could blame it on the bloodstream

Accept the blood, for how it beats
Accept the liar, and the cheat
Accept the violence, and defeat
Accept that you are, what you eat
You eat in secret, you overeat
You starve yourself, and then repeat

If I met John at seventeen
I wouldn’t tell him anything
Cause he is evil, but also sweet
Wearing outfits, incomplete
An emperor without his sleeves
A little boy who loves the beach and
Now a man at 33
Who sometimes hears a voice repeat:
“Yeah you could die, and you’d be clean
You could go leave everything”
But I am an ocean of living things
A lover, friend, and I sing
Just like my mom
Just like my dad
Just like my sister
Just like my past

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