"When I Was A Kid" by Shane Koyczan and The Short Story Long
From the album "Debris" by Shane Koyczan and The Short Story Long
Vote now at www.shanekoyczan.com and decide which song from "Debris" gets made into a video!!
Video submissions email (details below): submissions@shanekoyczan.com
Album Available at: www.shanekoyczan.com/store/debris
Patreon: / shanekoyczan
KZread: goo.gl/hm1qJz
Soundcloud: / debris
When I Was a Kid:
Words by: Shane Koyczan
Music by: The Short Story Long
Shane: voice
Glenna: piano
Corwin: drums
Jesse: bass, glockenspiel
Jordie: cello
Maiya: ukulele, voice, accordion
Daniel Lapp: trumpet, trombone, phono-cello, flumpet
Josie Patterson: tuba
Shane Koyczan and The Short Story Long are:
Shane Koyczan: words and voice
Maiya Robbie: guitar and voice
Jesse Lee: bass and voice
Jordie Robinson: cello and voice
Glenna Garramone: piano and voice
Making a new video and you get to decide which one!!!
Many of you already know that we put out the new album just a short while ago. Thank you all for supporting it... we've gotten some incredible reviews and wonderfully positive feedback. I really love this album. I love it so much that I couldn't decide on which video to make next. See where I'm going with this yet? We opened with a video of "For Many" and are now considering which piece should follow it up. In all likelihood this will be the last video I produce (They're an increasingly expensive commitment with no monetary return... I do them because I love doing them... just can't afford to keep doing them.) So with all of that out in the open I want to invite my fans to make this decision. Your support has meant so much over the years and I'm often asked why I haven't done a video for this piece or that piece... trust me I would do videos for all of them if I could. How it breaks down is this. We're going to release the album on KZread and Soundcloud. Two tracks per week with just a static image of Scott Waters wonderful cover art. When all of the pieces are finally online voting will begin on www.shanekoyczan.com.
There'll be a list of the tracks and each visitor will be allowed to cast their vote for the piece they'd most like to see made into a video. Please keep in mind that we don't have access to grants and are not crowd funding this project. Our budget is a modest 8k which I pay for myself. So please don't expect Michael Jackson's Thriller. Another angle to this little tidbit is that we will be accepting submissions from creators who might be interested in making the video. Animators, graphic designers, filmmakers... Pixar... whoever you are... If this is something that interests you and you believe you can work within the budget... it's all yours. Submit some of your work to submissions@shanekoyczan.com; the band and I will go through and decide which style we'd like to see applied to the chosen track. Something you should consider before making any commitments is that the 8k is in Canadian funds, which is currently laughable outside of Canada, so I hope you're up for a challenge. If you do feel like cushioning the meager budget you can make a pledge on my Patreon page / shanekoyczan . This will likely be the first and last project I release via this site but every penny helps. Okay... I've talked your ear off long enough. Hope you've all been making beautiful steps toward your bliss in this new year. Hope to see you all in it.
Cheers, Shane
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"I get altitude sickness from just standing up for myself" I have been trying to find these words for so long to describe how I felt in school.
"You're only twelve! So i'm impressed."
”When I was a kid, I hid my heart under the bed ‘cause my mother told me if I wasn’t careful someone’s gonna break it. Take it from me, under the bed is not a good hiding spot”
My friends asked me why I listened to Shane Koyczan, I got new friends because if the others think these speeches are weird they are bullies who don't want anyone to stand up to them. Turns out I was right. I had a problem with a dude who wanted to actually copy my assignments so the night he wanted me to give him the answers the next day I listened to this and an evil smile came upon my face.I took the advice from the story and prevailed against the bullies. These speeches help me get through life.I sincerely thank you, Shane Koyczan.
Your grandfather was a cool dude.
"Under the bed is not a good hiding spot" you should've told me earlier
ive never seen a human more beautiful than you shane I swear to god
Depression is like a heaviness that you can’t ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it’s in your bones and your blood.
I need to cry, I need to cry, my heart is weeping but I cannot, everything in locked up and I can't cry to let it out... I grip my heart and beg that I can get a chance for warm tears to stream my face and for me to weep but I just can't...
I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING
"I gave myself a hall pass for every broken promise"
"...And I was like, Fuck you! This is Skeletor!" Best. Line. Ever.
"Smarter than the average bear motherf*ucker"😂😂😂 nice
"I'm still not brave enough to have an orgy/but I rock the slumber party/come nap with me."
"fuck you this is Skeletor" Shane you are a legend
When I was a kid, I hid my heart under the bed because my mother said "If you're not careful, someday, someone's gonna break it."
"Your heart is a doorknock,and everytime it beats,its just that kids way of asking..can you please come out and play?"
I can only hope to grow up as amazing as you.
Slam poetry is my life
When I was little