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Dear Moderation

from Ringo by Late-Night Delivery

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I swear to god, I never knew that the “Prudence” in the Beatles’ “Dear Prudence” was a person (specifically Prudence Farrow, Mia’s sister). I really thought John Lennon wrote a song to the abstract concept of prudence, like a conversational, direct address to, like, the virtue of being cautious.

I wrote “Dear Mod” when I was 24, not very prudent, not very moderate in my behavior. I was a bit isolated from my friends, especially my childhood friends – the ones with whom I played in bands. They had moved away, started big careers and made new friends, having their own new struggles and victories (“Into the city / poisoned and pretty”), all while I hung out in my mom’s basement, doing nothing much except getting pretty good at Team Fortress 2.

It’s really important to me that Christian sang the line about no one teaching us guitars (though actually he did take lessons, the poser). He’d been my main musical collaborator for more than a decade at that point, and his performance and greater influence shape the whole song, which ultimately I guess is just about when the boys are back in town.

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Dear moderation
It's me
I'm sorry I haven't wrote
When you shoved it down my throat
I got turned off

Dear moderation
Our friends all scattered like the ash
They were drumming on the dash
When they drove away

Into the city
Poisoned and pretty
You cry on the phone
In debt but not alone

You're on the rebound
Ripped from the wet ground
I remember you in 1992

Well it's just something that we dreamed up when we were young

Dear moderation
As children no one ever taught us how to play guitars
We just played

Well we couldn't stay long and I left my phone in the car
Then we drove to the sticks with a case of beer for the party

As the parties faded we hit clubs
And the clubs hit back
I remember in November all the pretty lights
Before they went bLack
And the pain of the morning after
And the slow disaster

And then a couple of you fade from view

Dear moderation
I wonder
If you've got the time
I'm seeing friends of mine
Would you stay away?

Into the city
Poisoned and pretty
You cry on the phone
In debt but not alone

You're on the rebound
Ripped from the wet ground
I remember you in 1992

Well it's just something that we dreamed up when we were young

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from Ringo, released November 4, 2022

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