Fear Not Reality

by Joe Ransom

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Freeways... anything but free but do they get you home to me?
Billboards... selling us advice before there’s time to blink and miss, the
Rubbish... filling up the sidewalks and the drainpipes choke on pride
I wonder... with apathy transcending, could we reverse the pecking order please?

So don’t expect love to be served up on a silver platter
It comes with rust, cracks, dents, beauty and fear not
No don’t expect love to be served up on a silver platter
It comes with rust, cracks, dents, beauty and fantasy…

Railways... tracking in my mind as the junkyard takes another mile
Airports... carve our names into the tarmac… oh we’re filling up the skies with
Computer clouds... that interrogate our honesty with knowledge of the saxophone wars and
Jungles... they’re chopping down their family trees, just to burn another song...

So don’t expect love to be served up on a silver platter
It comes with rust, cracks, dents, beauty and fear not
No don’t expect love to be served up on a silver platter
It comes with rust, cracks, dents, beauty and fantasy…

Flick the switch... turn off the fear
Do you believe... in reality?
Flick the switch... turn on the light
Now I believe... everything will be...

Flick the switch... turn off the fear
Do you believe in life... beyond gravity?
Flick the switch... turn on the light
Now you believe in life... everything will be...

credits

released November 3, 2017
Joe Ransom - guitar, vocals, old piano
Jeremy O'Connor - bass
Mark Henman - drums
Quinn McHugh - recording and mixing

Recorded at Tapeworm Studio and Gracenote Studio, Brisbane, 2017
From the forthcoming album Fear Not Fantasy
Foto by Joe, Kyoto, 2008

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Joe Ransom Arequipa, Peru

'Get some more red dust on yer boots!'

'Don't be a chicken, be an eagle!'

'This is goanna country!'

'Ain't no cops on this road to catch you!'

Such wild lyrics as these can be heard on this 9 song alt-punk-country-hip-hop album 'Jakamarra' written by Joe Ransom in the outback NT town of Yuendumu where he was teaching for a year and some. ... more

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