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'For Once' is from the web series Happy Playland, created by The Candle Wasters.

This series was made with the support of NZ On Air and YouTube as part of the Skip Ahead initiative, in collaboration with Tomorrow, Rain.

'For Once' features in EP TEN - DEATH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qmvpgm2dTE&t=57s

You can watch the full series now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ4M4eic7acQUVnSQi8-4mKBQFYFYZo-j

lyrics

BILLIE
For once,
I'm not
In a rush
For once, I'm
Taking my time
Not fighting or hiding or
Trying to find a way out

ZARA
For once
I'm a little lost
For once I'm,
Bm
Doubting the choices I've made,
So I'm glad you're ok
But you're still messing me around

BILLIE
What do you want from me tonight?

ZARA
I just want you to decide!


BILLIE

Ok, ok, so I've been
Thinking, maybe
I'm not quite who I thought I was
Supposed to be
I've been letting
what they're expecting get the
Better of me
Parents and friends and everybody!
But only I know what I need

ZARA
Feel free to tell me


CRIS / BILLIE
For once,
I'm happy
to just be here

BILLIE
But I’m doubting my choices too
And I’m still messing you around

(Dialogue)

BILLIE
I’m sorr- Zara, let me - okay. I had two possible outcomes in my mind.
I didn’t even think about the
fact that Auckland means… not you.

ZARA
(pause) That’s so dumb.

BILLIE
I know. I’m dumb. It’s an avoidance tactic that I seem to have perfected.
So really I’m quite talented. Really I’m a genius.


ZARA
So you’re gonna go?

BILLIE
[She pauses] I don’t know.

ZARA
Argh!


BILLIE
Well, I'm not sure a TV screen is really what I
Need right now

ZARA
But you'd be crazy to turn it down!

BILLIE
And I'm a little sick of this town
The same old
people and places everywhere

ZARA
Plenty of new faces up there...

BILLIE
Yeah,
But I’d still be alone,
Right now I feel at home for once…
And you’re not the only reason I would stay
But I can't deny that you're lying in the way.

ZARA
That’s cute but can you get to the point, please?

BILLIE
For once I think I know what I need


I’m so sick of chasing my dreams
When I can’t even handle my anxieties
I just want to get through every day
And you make everything easier, Zara

(repeat verse with Zara alternating…)

ZARA
[I’m so sick of chasing my dreams]
If you wake up tomorrow and change your mind
[When I can’t even handle my anxieties]
You can move away and I’ll be fine
[I just want to get through every day]
But I’m glad for now you’re choosing to stay
[And you make everything easier, Zara]
You make my life harder but that’s ok...

CRIS / BILLIE / ZARA
For once,
I'm happy to just be here [repeat x3]

credits

from Happy Playland, released August 10, 2017
Written by Dylan Kelly
Performed by The Happy Playband
Produced by Elsie Bollinger, Maxwell Apse, and Chris Winter
Recorded at Mr. Winter

Vocals - Neenah Dekkers-Reihana, Jen Smith, Dani Yourukova
Guitar - Sam Trist
Bass - Dylan Kelly
Drums - Jacob Baxter

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The Candle Wasters are four women (& a token dude) creating fierce, funny, feminist webseries.

Currently: On hiatus ✨

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