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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

Are you happy
Or just distracted
things stayed same but on the darker days
you say you’re fine but you’ve adapted

You’re content
Or just well practised
Say your lines and always smile on time
Repeat the action you’re just fine

take pill and chew
tell doctors you
won’t act the way you used to do
reflecting on the past I see
that suicide is cowardly
I’m sorry for distress I’ve caused
I won’t need to go back at all
to therapy or hospitals
I’ve got a job so now I’m cured

DRINK TEA
WATCH TV
JUST MAKE SURE THAT YOU’RE ACTING NORMALLY.

Are you happy
or are you acting
Make Mother get some sleep at night whilst you confide in strangers online

You’re okay
you’re interacting
you’re sharing things not bottling
things up you won’t break promises.

get friendship circles
burn your journals
sertraline is universal
lee approved to fix your mood
and stop those silly thoughts intrude
ing on your life it’s set design
to make sure you don’t fall outside
of what’s accepted
you’re depressing
he’s too happy she’s not eating
make some phonecalls
check protocols
increase smalls dose
then diagnose
misery or lack of personality

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from The Half​-​Arsed Defeat, released December 30, 2019
Ft. Bass and Backing Vocals by Gail Something-Else (Muddy Summers & The Dirty Field Whores)

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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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