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Bakugou starts banging on the drums to the tune of one of my less known songs, but the crowd cheers nonetheless. It’s more of a rock-type song, heavy on drums and guitars.
“What you want with me this time
You tailing me all night
I know you want to see me patrolled
You hi-jacking my joy ride
I'm living a good life
Why can't you leave me alone”
Kaminari comes over to me and stands back to back as I gear up for the next verse - the chorus of the song.
“You don't know me, no
I'm not a pushover
I'm not a pushover
You don't know me, no
I'm not a pushover
I'm not a push
You don't know me, no
I'm not a pushover
I'm not a pushover
You can't fill these shoes
You can't make me move
I'm not a pushover
I'm not a pushover”
I’d been pissed one night, a couple of fans catching Bakugou and I at our favorite gym. It wasn’t the fact they’d spotted us - they were sweet and happy, wanting pictures with the both of us - but what one of the girls had said.
She was gushing about watching our YouTube channel and how crazy things got sometimes, but then she called me a pushover. It wasn’t the first time I’d been called that either.
Most of the people that watch our channel’s more wild videos and then come meet us ask why I let them talk me into things so easily, why I don’t put up a fight about things I know won’t end well. Why I do those things anyways because the others think they’ll be fun.
“You thought you’d catch you a wild one
Thinking I got some
Someone's getting fired tonight
You profile to arrest me
Or looking to test me
Sorry but you're out of time”
Immediately after we got back to the flat we own as a band, I stormed off to my room and poured everything onto the pages. I wasn’t trying to write a song necessarily, just venting my thoughts when that’s the way it turned out. Next was the chords of the song, those came out in an experimental run of the song.
“You don't know me, no
I'm not a pushover
I'm not a pushover
You don't know me, no
I'm not a pushover
I'm not a push
You don't know me, no
I'm not a pushover
I'm not a pushover
You can't fill these shoes
You can't make me move
I'm not a pushover
I'm not a pushover”
Bakugou was the first I showed, knowing full well he wouldn’t sugar coat anything and would help me make progress. He surprised me by hardly making any corrections or changes and just helping to finalize the instrumentals.
“I
Won't
Play
Your
Games
Just let me be”
I shout out with the crowd, jumping and following the beat with my feet. Lights spread out from the stage and get ready for the last verse of the song after the bridge. No matter how many people actually know this song and its lyrics, it’s one of my favorites to play on nights like these.
“You don't know me, no
I'm not a pushover
I'm not a pushover
You don't know me, no
I'm not a pushover
I'm not a push
You don't know me, no
I'm not a pushover
I'm not a pushover
You can't fill these shoes
You can't make me move
I'm not a pushover
I'm not a pushover”
Thankfully, nobody has said anything since this song came out. Let’s just hope it stays that way.