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Make Your Mind Up

from The Half​-​Arsed Defeat by Ren Stedman

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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.

    Some songs you'll have heard me playing live a lot in fields and around campfires and some songs are ones that I've sat on for a year and let them grow into new versions of themselves.

    Either way, I hope you like what you hear and that some of the songs can can give you the same comfort they did to me when I wanted to hide in my wardrobe when everything else felt too difficult.

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Are you gonna make your mind up?
or are you going to sit down?
are you gonna let these pigs in their seats have your say how to live on this land?
I’m not relying on my neighbours
to follow through they will not save us
I’m not about to let my voice go unheard
about the state of the world
I want justice for those who get kicked to the curb

So they wait
in their office space
in their three piece suits sewn with fingers of childhood slaves
and they’ll say
that they’ve worked they way up when their daddy is the company’s face.

Are you gonna make your mind up?
or are you going to assume
that the monsters who lead and sell lies on the tv are really investing in you?
I won’t shed tears for the mindset
that someone else is gonna fix this
I don’t believe in the power to change if we repeat yesterday
Just over and over and over again

So we wait
for the world to change
when we sit on our arses and all the time just do the same
as we did yesterday
why be bold and change history you can just procrastinate?

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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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