At My Age (single)

by Magen Tracy & the Missed Connections

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I wasn’t seventeen
You wouldn’t say I hadn’t lived my life
Or didn’t have the means
Does that make it any less of a hard earned right
To say I want what a have
And I don’t want anymore

How can I picture what she might have said
Knowing her choice was different when she was my age
When she was my age

I tell myself she’d only want for me
Comfort and a mother’s guarantee
It's not selfish to live so free
At my age

We weighed the pros and cons
And by the time you strip the shame away
It was a clear decision
Now I’ve got one less right than I did that day
Because they take what they can
Til they can’t take anymore

I never pictured I’d live to this day
Helpless and burning with impotent rage
Here at my age

Now our stories spill like water on the floor
I’m not a hero, just another one in four
Just a woman who wanted more
Even at my age

She will be seventeen
There’s still a million ways she’ll blow my mind
She’ll make her own decisions
I’ll burn this whole place down to get her back that right
So she can take what she wants
And they can’t take any more

Nothing can keep her from turning each page
When she’s thirteen or nineteen, or even my age
Even at my age

The only thing she’ll ever hear from me
Is comfort and a mother’s guarantee
It’s not selfish to live so free
Even at my age

So spill your stories out like water on the floor
For every hero and for every one in four
Every woman who wanted more
At my age

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released October 20, 2023
Written by Magen Tracy
Produced by Ed Valauskas
Recorded by James Bridges at Q Division Studios and Mike Oram at Boonemusic
Mixed and Mastered by Pat DiCenso
Photography by Jenny Bergman (Secret Bureau of Art and Design)

Magen Tracy, vocals, guitar
Mike Oram, guitars, backing vocals
Stud Green, violin, backing vocals
Sam Spencer, bass
Tamora Gooding, drums
Auggie Valauskas, upright bass
Ed Valauskas, mellotron, chamberlin

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Magen Tracy Boston, Massachusetts

Soulful vocals, poignant songwriting, and piano-driven rock with a strong dash of sleazy swagger and alt-country twang.

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