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    This is my second album - another DIY home grown and home recorded suitcase of songs that I've been carrying around festivals over this past year.

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lyrics

theres man by the door
and there’s bugs on the floor
that climb into my nose and my brain
are they reading my mind
are they biding their time
or am i just going fucking insane
i’ve not been sleeping lately
my colleagues all hate me
they’re surely all plotting to kill
i’ve been researching death
and the best way to do it
and i know that sooner i will
but if I could be arsed

the building out back
that is behind my flat
filled with camera and screens that
the government track
are they watching my move
as I pace round the room
close the curtains
and cover reflections up too
I’ve not been sleeping lately
my colleagues all hate me
they’re trying to conspire and all segregate me
I’ve been googling dying
and my friends keep on trying
to act like I don’t know that they are all lying
out of their arse

but the fact of the matter
is that I do not matter
I’m part of a plan
but where I’m not the master
where I’m just collateral
damage that gets in the way

and I, I don’t want to die
I just need a reason of sorts to make sense why I should stay alive
and I, I don’t want to find
that the friends that I love and the people I deeply admire
were all right
‘cause these are the thoughts that I think all the time
but constantly tell everybody I promise I’m fine

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from The Half​-​Arsed Defeat, released December 30, 2019
Ft. menacing laugh by Jordan Gray (Tall Dark Friend)

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Ren Stedman Southend On Sea, UK

Ren Stedman, he's the acoustic guy who looks metal, has a buzzing vocal, plays from the marrow of his bones and will rip your heart out with his honesty. A fierce, fable wielding force of acoustic punk poetry.

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