Sad Bastard

from Satan Explains by Red Mill

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You're only good at music if you really can't play
You've got the right t-shirt, but nothin' to say
And in fifteen years, you'll be workin' late
Hopin' Daddy covers all of your due dates

Another boy genius, lost to the scene
A prophet of convictions and reality
The diluted came in droves to his dreams of fame
And then back-peddled over to the penny arcade.

You sad bastard.
What are you gonna do?
Just keep singing
Like it's the only thing you know how to do.

Convoluted logic and a Spotify account
Looking for communion in hymnals of doubt
Make your killings under cover of the dark, dark night
And then flick through your corpses by red morning light

A scrawl of innervisions on your conduit
Little ego facing backwards, it's expertly lit
Banal and withholding are your claims to fame
And if you ask him politely, he'll gladly exclaim:

"I'm a sad bastard.
But what am I gonna do?"
Just keeping singin'
Like it's the thing you know how to do

- Keegan Farara, 2017

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from Satan Explains, released November 9, 2018

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