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That's the Way Things Seem to Go

from One Step Ahead of Your Past by Benyaro

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words & music by Ben Musser
written all across the country

lyrics

That's the Way Things Seem to Go

Slidin’ round from town to town
searching for the roads
That will deliver me from the doorstep of this house
Back to where I belong.
But along the way are flats, falls, slips and cracks
Some friends who really knew you pass on
So when we spend time out in the cold
Keep yourself steady standing up for your own
Hear yourself breathe

That’s the way things seem to go
Every other day, you just don’t know
It comes around the corner at the speed of sound
you’re flat on your back
you’ve lost your crown
That’s the way things seem to go

You’ve climbed beyond 30, gained your view
and changed a lot of clothes
But stayed true to how you must spend your time
to the gallery been exposed.
They’ll tell you hard work at what you should
will equal double in your mind what you could
So when those folks blow that insecure cold
keep yourself steady knowing right serves the bold
Feel yourself breathe

That’s the way things seem to go
Every other day you just don’t know
It comes around the corner at the speed of sound
You’re flat on your back
you’ve lost your crown
That’s the way things seem to go

Thanks to free will, you plot your next move
Stand yourself up the seat’s reserved for the fools
(don’t be a fool)
Staring at your feet
(don’t be a fool)
Though the wrong ones put you down
there’re some good people you need to meet
You gotta keep things close together
Like a driver go on and get in your car
A rockstar’s who you are!

Don’t need no one’s permission
To head your own club
Don’t wait for no one’s blessing
to chase the things you love

That’s the way things seem to go
Back when there’s a time when you just didn’t know
Now you come around the corner like the speed of sound
Kindly attack, spread your good all around
That’s the way things seem to go

Wake up, pick up what’s left
Will yourself to roll
Back to the grand coliseum that is life
to fight to save your soul.

words & music by Ben Musser © 2014 Mohinga Music / ASCAP

credits

from One Step Ahead of Your Past, released September 8, 2017
Ben Musser: lead & harmony vocals,
nylon & steel string guitars, tambourine
Leif Routman: upright bass
Brian Geltner: drum kit
Meg Chamberlin: harmony vocals
Camille Obering: harmony vocals

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Benyaro Jackson, Wyoming

From the dank depths of the Brooklyn subways to the spiritually orgasmic heights of Jackson Hole WY, Ben Musser's indie roots project BENYARO carves a unique path w 1 rule: make great art. Honest, vulnerable shit. Neil Jenny once told Ben "In order to create something truly unique 1 must shut out the influence of others". If anything, here's a killer contemporary artists' advice applied to music. ... more

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