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I play guitar in front of an audience
Mostly in the minors and the majors
It’s just four chords but they’re played in different orders
And I’m prone to too much self-deprecation
It’s acoustic folk with the emphasis on rhyming
With well-worn and tried and trusted tropes
I’m a cut-price atheist pound-shop Paul Simon
With a rolling cast of awkward misanthropes
Still if you ask me, what kind of thing is it that you do?
I will answer, I just sing these songs for you
But I’m scared of revealing myself to you
Still the truth is probably hiding in the tracks
Anyway you don’t want to hear my story do you?
There’s only so much light between the cracks
And I make records, but I can’t seem to sell them
Can’t describe myself in pithy paragraphs
Right now I’ve got a band here for the album
But live I’m just one bloke and his guitar
Still if you ask me what kind of thing is it that I do?
I will answer, I don’t have a bloody clue
And there are Tory-bash incursions into some social commentary
Stories in third person, yeah but they’re all versions of me
And if I sense a tense atmosphere and you’re all getting bored
I just stick a capo higher up on my guitar fretboard
Maybe I’ll sing something edgier
Higher in my vocal register
It’s like if Billy Bragg had swapped Barking for Bedford
If Jim Croce met John Hegley in the shower
If you cross Pat Sharp with some early Robert Redford
That’s what’s it’s like to sit and watch me for about an hour
And the best way to get some people to listen
Is it hit them right in that funny bone
Yeah but after that’s occurred, I’m on a mission
To make them cry before the night bus home
And well, sometimes there’s a piano
But mostly it’s just me,
And I’m always seeking validation for existing in this place and
You regret asking the question now obviously
Because I clearly sing these songs just for me
credits
from Scrolling Home,
released April 22, 2022
Drums – Shane Dixon
Electric Guitar – Brad Lister
Accordion and Keys – John Hare
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals – Gavin Osborn
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