AJR

Released: March 26, 2021

Songwriter: Adam Met Jack Met Ryan Met

Producer: Ryan Met

[Intro]
Come on guy
I promise everything’ll be alright
Be okay
Your eyes are tired
But keep em open
Cause you wouldn’t want to miss a thing

[Verse 1]
It’s kinda funny how I paid for college
When YouTube
Was an option
But then I would have had to spend
My best years
Skipping ads
And reading comments
And when the hell did advertisements
Get so good
They’re like narcotics
So now I’m spending every penny I own
I should have allotted
To finishing college

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 2]
It’s kinda funny how I keep debating
If someone’s shy
Or if they hate me
I feel like everyone I know right now
Is hooking up
And getting wasted
(Without me)
And maybe sex is overrated
But we’re too shy
To ever say it
So we pretend we’re all amazing
It’s 3am
I should be sleeping

[Chorus]
Would you go running
If you saw the real me
Maybe you’d love em
Yeah maybe you’d feel me
But I’ll never ask you
No that’s super scary
Sorry to bail
It’s already three o’ clock
It’s too hard to tell
If anything’s real or not

[Verse 3]
It’s kinda funny how you vote for someone
To vote for someone
To vote for someone
And you might end up with someone evil
But you say
That he means well
If I keep on talking politics
My friends’ll dip
They’re over it
If I keep on talking politics
I’m Hamilton, without the hits

[Chorus]
Would you go running
If you saw the real me
Maybe you’d love em
Yeah maybe you’d feel me
But I’ll never ask you
No that’s super scary
Sorry to bail
It’s already three o’ clock
It’s too hard to tell
If anything’s real or not

[Post Chorus]
Come on guy
I promise everything’ll be alright
Be okay
Your eyes are tired
But keep em open
Cause you wouldn’t want to miss a thing

[Bridge]
Isn’t this obvious
Am I insane
Let’s blame our parents
Cause they taught us their ways
Stay out of politics
Stay on the fence
Stay out of all of it
To keep half your fans
Isn’t this obvious
Am I insane
There might be two sides to everything
That you say
It’s all a bit cloudy
But there’s one thing I know
That if you’re fucking racist
Then don’t come to my show

The indie-pop band AJR—three brothers born and raised in New York City—achieved a startlingly quick level of success with 2013 track “I’m Ready", a buoyant electro-pop smash that was featured in the trailer for Amy Schumer’s Trainwreck and became certified US Platinum in 2015.

Adam Met (bass/vocals), is the oldest brother, a Columbia University graduate. Ryan Met (ukulele/piano/vocals), a bespectacled ‘94 kid is the band’s main songwriter, also having co-written Andy Grammer hits “Back Home” and the certified gold “Good To Be Alive”. Jack Met (vocals/guitar), is the lead vocalist who splits time between the band and attending Columbia.

AJR began in 2005, busking on the streets and in the parks of New York. Raised on vinyls from the 50s and 60s, AJR was initially inspired by the likes of The Beach Boys and Frankie Valli, but the original sound they’ve now created resembles a modern mix of those classic sounds, with flavors of Imagine Dragons, fun., and hip-hop production elements pointing towards Kanye West.

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