I Know I Can't Stay

from Better Luck Next Year by Cal Rifkin

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I think it's time we put this record on the shelf
I think it's time we start listening to something else
Cause your voice in my head is getting way too god damn loud
And I can’t hear any other sounds

If I thought I could change your mind
Then I would spend my whole life trying
But I know it won’t change
So I know I can’t stay

If we could sort it out and make everything right
Then I would keep hanging with you tonight
But I know it won’t change
So I know I can’t stay

I wish that I could put that great gramp record on
But I’d just think of you belting out those emo songs
And the night that we swore we’d be nothing more than friends
But we were three beers deep and we all know how that ends

If I thought I could change your mind
Then I would spend my whole life trying
But I know it won’t change
So I know I can’t stay

If we could sort it out and make everything right
Then I would keep hanging with you tonight
But I know it won’t change
So I know I can’t stay

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from Better Luck Next Year, released May 30, 2023

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Cal Rifkin Washington, D.C.

Cal Rifkin is a garage pop and rock and roll trio from the nations capital.

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Better Luck Next Year

May 2023
Skater Vidz

May 2021
Cal Rifkin

Feb 2020
God damn

Feb 2019
SLEEPER HOLD

Oct 2018

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