2025 Competition Entry:

Late Bloomer by John Wlaysewski

Genre

Pop

Website

Co-writer(s)

no

Performer(s)

John Wlaysewski – guitar, vocals
Olive hui – vocals
Eric Zeender – guitar
Ben Weiss – Drums
Matthew Milligan – bass
Brendan B Brown – Guitar Solo

Description

I wrote this song looking at my life, and how long I’ve pursued a career in musics it’s a long road full of awesome successes and crushing failures, but it’s a road worth traveling because life is a journey not a destination.

Bio

John Wlaysewski is a music producer from Brooklyn NY. His band Late Cambrian, has toured the UK opening for Wheatus (2014). John produced Tracy Bonham’s Modern Burdens LP, a record of her debut record that had numerous female artist guests singer that seminal album.

Lyrics

Wait just a minute
Wait just a goddamn minute
You said we were in it
You said we were in it to win it

Huddled up against the cold
Walking down this lonely road
Two souls linked forever
Find a dream we can live together

Age 8 was crazy time
Lighting candles and stealing wine
16 in a trauma pit
Feeling shy and popping zits
28 and I fell apart
31 was a brand new start
Wish I knew you way back when
Wish I knew now what I knew then

I’m a late bloomer
A delicious rumor
Holding up the wall
Can you break me
When I fall
I’m a late bloomer
I’m a vicious rumor
I’m not just what you see
Win a prize if you wait for me

Wait just a minute
Wait just a goddamn minute
You said we were in it
You said we were in it to win it

Huddled up against the cold
Walking down this lonely road
Two souls linked forever
Find a dream we can live together

15 I was breaking rules
Small town spawn a herd of
Fools
I feel like I’m walking dead
When I see too far ahead
29 and the fever broke
Punchline to a cosmic joke
Wish I knew you way back when
Wish I knew now what I knew then.

I’m a late bloomer
A delicious rumor
Holding up the wall
Can you break me
When I fall
I’m a late bloomer
I’m a vicious rumor
I’m not just what you see
Win a prize if you wait for me

I’m a late bloomer
I’m a vicious rumor
Holding up the wall
Can you break me
When I fall
I’m a late bloomer
A delicious rumor
I’m not just what you see
Win a prize if you wait for me

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