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Real Life

by Grady Philip Drugg

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1.
Real Life 00:41
Life: Surreal, in retrospect, a dream Easy times feel less than serene In the moment, it's hard To count your blessings So we long for days gone past us Grief and strife Buddy, that's real life!
2.
River of Ocean Lead me around the world sometime All we can do now is Floating around in Thought clouds bigger than we once thought Round like circles in our eyes See not to believe On to yon side of Earth You show me certainty River of Ocean Show them how wrong they all are Lord All we can see now is False information Lead us all around in circles All I can do is know best Feel no need to read Anything, tails for show Fiction, slander, and prose This is fine
3.
Donny Sees a Bluebird His feathers matching His size 5 sharkskin He stretches his arms out And pretends to fly So beautiful, little friend Together they bask in the afternoon sunlight Peacefully competing for an infinite bliss "I can fly too... I can fly just like you Someday, I'll fly even higher than you"
4.
Mercy Be 03:58
Fallen leaves too late this year I'm thinking Different life in all respects now People fight party lines and random numbers Leaves you feeling so dejected How about some water? Swim in cash, Mercy Be to everyone else Drowning in their everyday lives Existing just to waste another day One day passing onto nothing Why then even bother? No change in sight Tangled up in otherworldly plight It seems unending Eyes look down at the dirt longingly so Thinking always of their dumb lies All have gold and champagne smiles while we have nothing Distant silence, then say something Wry and condescending
5.
Dark Space 02:37
No one wants to die like this, I promise you So promise me to roll your eyes And fight the ones who say "We'll just live through this" Many of us wont It's a Dark Space we're living in My life is worth much more than a bull market Is this news to you? Where's your decency? I hope every bad thing in the world happens to you It's a Dark Space we're living in
6.
Driving through the mountains Brooks is half asleep Racing out to Heartland Like it's Need for Speed And when we get there It's still daytime A few more moments in the sun I pick up Luke's guitar backstage And we all like the sound We're just Waiting For the Band to Play They'll take us out of here When the show starts The people rejoice in a song From another world, another time, another place We're just Waiting For the Band to Play
7.
How good would it feel to Cry Like a Baby? Uninhibited by shame or embarrassment I'd cry until I couldnt breathe 'Til no more sound came out of me Until I finally gasped for air And let out another wail How I'd love to be completely unconsolable Free of any sense of judgement on me Free to feel the things we hide Deep down and put away To be felt at a later date As we drink ourselves to sleep Today, I am a prisoner of masculinity Taught to hide my feelings and bottle up my tears I only cried twice when my momma died Before I turned to drinking 'Cuz it was easier than crying So I put it all away How good would it feel to Cry Like a Baby? Uninhibited by shame or embarrassment I'd cry until I couldnt breathe 'Til no more sound came out of me Until I finally gasped for air And let out another wail
8.
I'm watching the planes fly south over Sahara Lounge Got so many feelings that I just can't figure out Listening to KUT, burning up my car battery As I'm watching the planes fly south over Sahara Lounge Everything is changing quickly in our little town Overgrown and gentrified but trying to play it down Families on the pavement looking up at new apartments Standing where their old home used to stand in their little town I know that my home is alright But for others, it is hard to sleep at night They say you should just pitch a tent Next to the highway because you can't pay your rent I'm watching the planes fly south over Sahara Lounge Everywhere I look, eyes seem to shoot me down Nervous and unsure, uninterested at worst But I guess I gotta go inside and play my set now People do love visiting Between "i love you so much" and "Hi, How Are You," there's so much to see Buy a t-shirt while you're in So all your friends back home will know where you have been I'm watching the planes fly south over Sahara Lounge Maybe we're in this as long as we'll be around High as I can see, they have no empathy So I'm watching the planes fly south over Sahara Lounge Yeah, I'm watching the planes fly south over Sahara Lounge Yeah, I'm watching the planes fly south
9.
On a hill, but I don't want it Looking from on high, open eyes Everything should be so different Complicity's a choice, relentless ploy Onslaught of nationalistic shit We're not waiting 'til next time we see you To set it ablaze, to give birth to a new day You'll find The great divide gets even greater Which one do I mean? All it seems They take and make it harder to get Everything we need from water to money But we've got too much and them not enough At least that's the way those monsters see things Let's take it all, CEOs backs to the wall They'll find They will find out what's been missing Burn it all down and rebuild it all A world where no one's neighbors are suffering Back to the wind, we will find you
10.
Betty 02:39
Betty, the precious diamond, she's so wonderful Clearly a gift from on Baby, love the way you're kneadin' in my chest in the night And you never need to worry, never wake up in fright Betty, it's okay Freely wandering around a lucid dream Genie, she gets what she wants daily, or so it seems Yeah, she knows just how to get it with the wink of an eye No, she never wastes a second of her life away cryin' Betty, It's okay She gets so bored so easily She's not for me
11.
Everybody loves me I'm the life of their party Sunday night Staying over, never overstay my welcome Get a load of me! Will someone load my drums off stage for me? I don't have one second to spare On picking up my snare or throne Holy water, bubble tea I'm so free I go to church when they ask me To keep the clergy on their toes I don't watch the sermons, I'm simply here to guard the door Bishop left a 12 pack in his office How lucky for me! Backpack it goes Nothing to see, I need ID Let me see yours! Holy water, holy me Can't you see? Way to prosper foolishly Following Only faulter, always free Follow me

credits

released September 1, 2020

GPD - songs, vocals, most instruments

Henry Hank - backing vocals and banjo on Cry Like a Baby

“Casual” Calvin Todd - backing vocals and guitar on Cry Like a Baby, pedal steel on Sahara Lounge

Owen Misterovich - backing vocals on What’s Missin

Ian Dobyns - drums on Mercy Be

Joseph Misterovich - mixing, mastering, backing vocals on What’s Missin’

Nicholas Nutting - album artwork

Very special thanks to: Dreamgirl, McKenna Mobus, Caleb B. Kuntz, Justinian Martinez, Celestina Gravely, Lily Ratisseau, Blake Maples, Abby Johnston, Marco Botello, Ian Keiser, Brooks Burrell, Dakota Jones, Cole Simmons, Sammy Heck, Joe Wilson II, Taylor Ferguson, Ray Hanly, Sharp Woolston, and Ryan Watson.

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Grady Philip Drugg Springfield, Missouri

music is the only thing in life that i like.

originally from canyon lake, tx. now i live in springfield, mo.

photo by henry hank

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