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Hang on to Your

by Ben D Straw

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Intro 00:31
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Seen Perfection 02:16
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When she passes by My skin burns She looks at me My heart yearns The way she laughs drives me out of my mind This girl is one of a kind Perfection's a thing no man has seen But she pulls it off exquisitely Her grace is lacking and her style's poor But she's everything I need and more Her hair is messy every single day Her clothes don't match but I don't complain I would not change one single thing Not even her inability to sing! Perfection's a thing no man has seen But she pulls it off exquisitely Her eyesight's bad but she shines like gold She still managing to conquer my world Perfection's a thing I never thought I'd see But in her I see it perfectly Her love for me makes my heart do a twirl She'll always be my one-of-a-kind girl
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Cross 03:16
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You don’t have to be a jack of all trades When you’re a master of one But what good’s putting in all that work if You never have any fun? If you wanna know what's on other walks Then go find out I say Come on, poet take a ride with me I know you’re tired of sitting under that tree How bad can a day in rock n’ roll be Then you can write about the day When arts crossed Do you really think you’ll look back and say, “I’m glad I stuck to my comfort zone?” Or would you rather have a real good story to tell The next time you get back home? If you’re at all bored with where you are Then don’t wait another day Come on, poet take a ride with me I know you’re tired of sitting under that tree How bad can a day in Rock n’ Roll be Then you can write about the day You might be a stranger to what I do But you know you’ll be safe with me So sit back and let someone you trust Take you on a journey to see Come on, poet take a ride with me I know you’re tired of sitting under that tree How bad can a day in Rock n’ Roll be Then you can write about the day Come on, poet take a ride with me I know you’re tired of sitting under that tree How bad can a day in Rock n’ Roll be Then you can write about the day
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Where 03:46
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Where’ve you been? I’ve waited years to have my best friend by my side Don’t change my mind Where’ve you been? We would share anything at all there was to know Not just for show Where’ve you been? All the things that to be safe you’d turn away Now every day Where’ve you been? Now you won’t give me the time of day or night There was no fight Back in our prime Through all success and failure I relied Your voice and mind But not this time I’ve learned to do it all with you behind And still I’ll shine I knew that some would stay and some would go That some friendships for no reason would sink You might think that you’re ready for their close But sometimes they won’t be the ones you think Where’ve you been? All the plans we had to conquer all the world Lost in this swirl Where’ve you been? All the music and the drama that we shared Nothing compared Where’ve you been? We bonded over choices that were dumb But not this one Where’ve you been? I thought that we would go on sharing trust But that’s a bust
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Hang On 03:22
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The soldiers are marching, spear and shield in hand To a place they don’t even know Fighting for a cause they don’t understand But onward they always go See the whole field’s packed with foes ahead Surely, we all will die But the only thing that matters in the heat of war Is to remember the battle cry Hang on to your willies Give ‘em hell for glory Hang on to your willies And heroes we will be You turn bright red every time she passes you by And I can’t just stand back and wait I might nudge you right into her path And I know it’s gonna go great As long as you Hang on to your willy Just give her a lily Hang on to your willy Don’t let your feet get chilly Generations ago, in my village There was a hero known as William the Defender Or as those closest called him, Willy One night, William fought off a raiding party with naught but his bare hands He became loved by everyone, but still by his family most of all When he passed away, his wife almost couldn’t find the strength to go on Until her best friend reminded her to hang on to your Willy And that’s when she realized That as long as she cherished his memory and held on to the love he gave That he’d never truly be gone Before ya knew it, “hang on to your Willy” became something that everyone said to everyone As a reminder to keep moving forward, and never let go of what’s important So hang on to your willies And sing it with me Hang on to your willies It ain’t nothing silly Hang onto your willy And eat your chili Hang onto your Willy And good fortune he will bring
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Spreading 2020 02:14
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I dig my knife into the vessel Each and every way I twist Then watch as I mangle the vessel Knowing soon it will cease to exist Extract that which is wet and brown And look at the edge of my knife Spread it onto the face of my toast And think, "I have a good life" Peanut butter! Spread it on a bagel every morning I got no time for cream cheese Pretzels, crackers, s'mores all around And some on my Oreos please In my youthful days I would make Peanut butter and cheese sandwiches Or just take it right from the spoon It don't need no companion, bitches Peanut butter goes with everything Peanut butter, joy to food it brings Peanut butter goes with everything Peanut butter, joy to food it brings
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Inspiration 04:35
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Life gave me 7 billion people All to care about And if I can make just one feel better It erases one more doubt Life gave me a dime to spare Plus brain and shoulder strong And I wanna use them all to help out Those that life has wronged It’s my True inspiration Life will find you your true inspiration True inspiration Life will find you your true inspiration Life gave me a warming world And the skills and power to fight And I won’t rest until I know the coast will Stay out in the light Life gave me a threat that my kids Would face darker day But I wanna tell my children How I kept the night away It’s my True Inspiration Life will find you your true inspiration True inspiration Life will find you your true inspiration One day it’ll click to you Even if it hasn’t yet But you’ll find something that doesn’t sit with you And change it Maybe you’ll just wanna get rich Get buff, find love, or cure the sick Maybe you’ll just think the world Needs more music Maybe you’ll wanna feed the poor Save animals, put a stop to war But whatever it is, you’ll only want it More, and more, and more, As long as it’s your True inspiration Life will find you your true inspiration True inspiration Life will find you your true inspiration True inspiration Life will find you your true inspiration True inspiration Life will find you your true inspiration
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Round Trip 05:35
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To the Top 03:57
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I never learned what hunger truly means Just like discrimination and disease Had one good idea which I thought I’d share Had to work hard for it to make me a billionaire You know that makes me a martyr And you just need to work harder Before you can climb up to the top like me I ascended from an armchair to a throne And they tell me I got here all on my own So when people have to break their backs for me They must not deserve to be treated humanely ‘Cause you know that I’m a martyr And that you need to work harder Before you can climb up to the top like me At all costs I’ll preserve my legacy And policies in Washington ain’t free If I donate to retain powers at be They’ll keep their pay high but leave enough for me ‘Cause they know that I’m a martyr And that you need to work harder Before you can climb up to the top like me They ask why I keep so much and they plea And they have the gall to say that I’m greedy They use my product but what they just can’t see Is that providing it is my own charity ‘Cause you know that I’m a martyr And that you need to work harder Before you can climb up to the top like me
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Theme 05:51
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Just a man Give me experiments to do I do my best Give me a sad friend to cheer up I do my best Never said I was a perfect man I never said I wanted perfect friends We don't have to have it all A few kind words and we'll stand tall I do my best and my best ain't so bad Just a man Give me experiments to do I'll do you good Give me a sad friend to cheer up I'll do you good Never said I was a perfect man I never said I wanted perfect friends We don't have to have it all A few kind words and we'll stand tall I do my best and my best ain't so bad Just a man Give me a guitar in need We'll be set for days I'll add in my own brand of weird And so should you Never said I was a perfect man I never said I wanted perfect friends We don't have to have it all A few kind words and we'll stand tall I do my best and my best ain't so bad
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Madness 03:37
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You try to make a friend one day Just so you'll have one or two Next thing you're in a locker With several new names they'll call you They'll shove you in the hallways Just to make you feel all blue But you know the place it's coming from Is that they hate themselves too Stop the madness And come together They think "gay" is the worst insult That you could possibly endure But when they drive people to weapons They'll learn that they're the ones to curse I don't see where the joy comes from In sending people to the nurse If you really wanna be the bigger man Why don't you feed the starving first Stop the madness And help each other The small-timers run the schoolyards But then those more sly Take your mind off children in cages Just so profits stay high But when news and propaganda's Just to get there way Gotta stay ahead of money Just so that we may Stop the assholes And take the world back

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released May 25, 2020

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Ben D Straw Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Just a Bethlehem, PA indie rocker out to have some fun!

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