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    2. Wanderlust
    3. Bored
    4. Grays Town
    5. State of unfair
    6. Sorry
    7. Wandering the streets
    8. Bugs
    9. The Hipster Song
    10. Day after day
    11. Song for my Mum & Dad
    12. Bigger Balls than you

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lyrics

I sing pretty things
but I never ever say what I mean
If I tell the truth of how I feel
then no-one listens when I sing
so I sing songs about drugs and alcohol
and never wanting to grow old
and all just so the people hold their focus and might listen to me play

but I’m feeling lonely
and no-one really knows me
I’m scared to admit that I might not fit in if I told you what I’m really thinking

and I’ve fucked my job up
and the friends i had don’t want to stay
if misery’s my only friend, then I don’t want company
anymore
I drink to keep the lid screwed on
how I am barely holding on
and I’m sorry
I’m sorry if you think that you know me.

I grin and I bear it
with the smile that I greet people with
but the effort I use and the effort I had
is wearing thin
In the past I would cope
with the problems I made
but the problem this time is
myself and I hate how I feel.

time got the best of me
there’s not that much left of me
that hasn’t felt the toll it’s taken death’s my oldest memory
if happiness is what keeps us alive
then I’ve been dead for several years because I never would have survived.

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from Festival Friends, released April 19, 2018

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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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