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The Drinking Sad

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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lyrics

Got the drinking sad again
I’ve got the black dog in my head
for just a couple hours works
I’ll afford to face my demons
with a bottle in my pocket
or a smoke into my chest.

Got the drinking sad again
it creeps on me just like an old friend
who’s face I used to trust
but now it just seems cold and distant
like the distance that I make between
myself and those who cared

Well I don’t care, no I don’t care
I don’t care, no I don’t care
or do I care too much and that’s just how I got here.

Had the drinking sad for weeks
and knocks me over from my knees
as they tremble on a staircase I used to climb to see
my friends in their apartment to communally conceive
the best way to destroy ourselves with alcohol and weed

And I see them every now and then
as they waste all of the oxygen
by talking shit the same we did when we had too much time to spend
on polishing our ego’s thinking why should we be made to feel so scared
of everybody’s bad opinions

I don’t wanna be unique anymore
if the only thing that makes me stand out and makes me individual
is the pattern of events that do not make me any different
from all the people that I frown upon
for doing all the shit I’ve always done

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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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