“Be Somebody” by Slimday - A Song Feature

 

     “Be Somebody” reverses the flow of the hypothetical conversation. Instead of envisioning what to tell your younger self, Slimdan considers what your younger self would think of you. The result is not a favorable one. 

     Slimdan said about the single:
  "’Be Somebody’ is a song about me having a conversation with my teenage self. At the time it was written, I was 24 years old living in my parents’ house and musically directing bar mitzvahs. I'm pretty sure I texted my mom to get more cereal before walking into the session to write it, lol. I made this with Ryan Linvill and Noah Conrad and the intro to the song is a clip used from a snoring app that recorded me sleep-talking to my wife."
 
     Slimdan is the moniker of Danny Silberstein in Los Angles, although he is currently studying songwriting at Berklee College of Music
 
     “Be Somebody” by Slimday

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Lyrics of “Be Somebody” By Slimdan
What’s there to worry about
When you’re still at your parents’ house
And you said you’d get off their couch
But now you’re 24 years old
 
You haven’t come too far
You’re playing songs on your guitar
And you’re too scared, so no one cares
I guess it’s what you’re into now
 
And I keep making these
Collect calls
My past life
He wanted to know what become of the prophet, the dreamer
He really thought that I would be somebody
I could hear it in his voice
He was hoping I would be somebody
Never thought I’d turn into no one
 
Take it all in day to day
Sit around and masturbate
Habitually self-medicate
Fall asleep with “The Bachelor” on
 
Now you thought when you were young
The way to freedom’s growing up
You hated feeling 17
Now it’s all you hold onto
 
And I keep making these
Collect calls
My past life
He wanted to know what become of the prophet, the dreamer
He really thought that I would be somebody
I could hear it in his voice
He was hoping I would be somebody
 
I really thought if you say it out loud and it sounds like a plan
Then God would say “Cool, I got you man”
It’ll come, it’ll come if you wait
It’ll come if you wait
 
But now it’s a panic attack every corner I turn
My fears in the backseat driving me further and further away
Further away
 
He really thought that I would be somebody
(Collect calls, my past life)
I could hear it in his voice he was hoping I would be somebody
(The prophet, the dreamer)
Through the static and the noise, he could tell I wasn’t anybody
(Burnout, a drifter)
I could hear it in his voice he was hoping I would be somebody
Never thought I’d turn into no one