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Came Out Swinging

Song · 2011 · The Wonder Years. Album: Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing

for anyone ready to fight their way out of a rut 🥊

Who it's for

The Wonder Years open their album with a twenty-something wrestling with suburban malaise and figuring out who he is.

Frustrated, adrift→Fired up

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What it is

"Came Out Swinging" is the opening track of The Wonder Years' 2011 album Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing, released on Hopeless Records. It opens with a sample of Allen Ginsberg reading his poem "America," which the liner notes name as the album's main inspiration.

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I'm not a bit changed—not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out.L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Chapter XXXIV. A Queen’s Girl

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