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"We're Here Now" is whimsical look back at the trials of youth. “Is this the real world? When did I grow up?” Aron asks. The song begins with a rousing organ solo from David Gorospe before settling into a laid-back groove. Nostalgia is mixed with self-consciousness, and the song celebrates the present and all its complications.

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Sometimes I get nostalgic
When I’m wasting time.
I think of how we’d hang out
With nothing on our minds
‘cept what if, why, and how
things got so messed up.
No need to make decisions,
But now…

Remembering a sunset
A smile upon your face
Lit up my emotions
While the darkness took place.
I wonder what it’d be like
If we went back in time.
Could we make it right?
Or would we fuck it up again?

But now there’s no time for contemplation.
I’m sick of all this anticipation.

Is this the real world?
When did I grow up?
I still have questions.
Things weren’t what they used to be,
But we’re here now.

Dropping quarters at the arcade
Listening to a new CD
That’s how we used to kill time,
Now time is killing me.
I got the latest cell phone
It answers itself.
But it asks so many questions
I leave it on the shelf.

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Solo

These memories serve a purpose.
We learn to recognize
when something is a costume
and when it's a disguise.
How can you tell the difference?

Get the latest update.
Gotta make the papers.
What is the deadline?
Someone get a crash cart...
I'm about to flatline.

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from Still Life- EP, released November 6, 2011

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Aron Van Alstine Ojai, California

Bull fighter. Ballerina. Game show host. Ex-teenager. Future dinosaur. Commander of cats. Faker of resumes. Delusional bassoonist.

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