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lyrics

Well I can’t say what I think
So I’ll say what I know
I’ve broken through all the windows
But here I am I’m still trapped behind my front door
I tried to paint over cobwebs
I tried to sand down the sirens
I thought if I build a house in my head
Then my head might confuse it with silence

But I’m leaving again
And I can’t tell you why
If I don’t know what the problem is friend
Well I can’t say what’s on my mind

All my systems are nervous
and all my actions are worthless
I’m constructing the person I wish I could be in my brain one with meaning and more of a purpose
I fenced out my friends
I put walls up to make sure they’d never get in
I built home in myself so that nobody else could creep in when I wanted to call off the plans that I said I’d attend

And so I’ll kick up the curbs
And I know I deserve
What I get if it’s good or it’s bad
If it’s love if it’s burns or it hurts
But god knows it hurts
god know it hurts
and I can’t find the cause or the catalyst
that really started this I’m only making things worse.

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from The Half​-​Arsed Defeat, released December 30, 2019

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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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