But The Boy Is Dead! (Acoustic)

from Botify The People (Acoustic) by The Fisherman & The Sea

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When you've made a decision that goes against the mainstream but instead benefits your own mental health significantly, there's usually an army of people trying to talk you out of it – like quitting social media for example. But in the end those efforts are nothing more than like kicking a dead body trying to bring it back to life that way. A bit morbid? Yes. But social media will simply not let sleeping dogs lie.

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I feel so strung out on my own
No pulse, no vital signs to show
All my tax returns I’m ready to burn
Of the universe I’m trying to learn
Just got this inkling in my head

”Oh my word, but the boy is dead!”
”Oh my word, but the boy is dead!”
”Oh my word, but the boy is dead!”

I feel my fuse is about to blow
Got all this love that needs to grow
You look at me weird all because of my beard
Let out a sigh, take out the pruning shears
While I lay naked on my bed

”Oh my word, but the boy is dead!”
Snip-snip-snip, chip away at the life of me
”Oh my word, but the boy is dead!”
Snip-snip-snip, get a line inside of me
”Oh my word, but the boy is dead!”
Snip-snip-snip, get that clickbait into me
”Oh my word, but the boy is dead!”
Snip-snip-snip, suck the life right outta me

”Oh my word, why the boy so dead?”
”Oh my word, why the boy so dead?”
”Oh my word, why the boy so dead?”

I feel so strung out on my own
No pulse, no vital signs to show
Oh my CEO, are you ready to dance?
You flash some bling, I soil my pants
Don’t be a stiff is what you said

”Oh my word, but the boy is dead!”
That sure don’t mean that he won’t dance?
”Oh my word, but the boy is dead!”
That sure don’t mean that he don’t dance?
”Oh my word, but the boy is dead!”
’Cause everybody’s gotta do the dance!
”Oh my word, but the boy is dead!”
Don’t give me attitude, just dance!

”Oh my word, but the boy so dead!”
That sure can’t mean that he won’t dance?
”Oh my word, but the boy so dead!”
That sure can’t mean that he don’t dance?
”Oh my word, but the boy so dead!”
’Cause everybody’s gotta do the dance!
”Oh my word, but the boy so dead!”
Don’t give me attitude, just dance!
”Oh my word, but the boy so dead!”

credits

from Botify The People (Acoustic), released June 4, 2021
Written, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Jon Eden aka The Fisherman – all within the space of October 2020 til April 2021.
The lead bass riff came to Jon earlier though, sometime in the winter months of 2019, whistling atop of a hill.

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The Fisherman & The Sea Helsinki, Finland

From Finland – a country that allegedly holds more metal bands than park rangers are able to rescue from their gothic photoshoots in the hinterlands, and where disoriented polar bears roam downtown shopping centres – hail singer-songwriter Jon Eden and his band. His roots also put him in Hamburg, Germany thus planting him somewhere in the Baltic Sea in compromise – hence the name of the band. ... more

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