DIRTY LIAR
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SONG STORY:
“A tree that is unbending is easily broken” - the Tao Te Ching “A person should always be soft like a reed, and he should not be stiff like a cedar" - Talmud “A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall” - Chaucer “Now who ready to get bent?” - Notorious B.I.G.
(But also with other meanings: get bent, as in get mad, but also bent as in drunk or high, delirious, whimsical)
Bluegrass, blues, beats and bytes. Banjo electronic, another OOTS (out of time song). Mostly electronic, it starts of brash but by the end evolves to full-on banjo with a soul vocal expressing regret.
The main character in this track is mentioned by the female character in the dub song Coal Coal Black (“My liar, come back to me…”)
Three edits of this song — the original OOTS, then a minimalistic old school version with the blues chants but no banjo, and a slowed down version with different percussion.
NFT:
Music/visual, and lyric/t NFT Here
LYRICS:
i'm a dirty liar
i'm a dirty liar,
that's the truth
cut it or caress it,
cover it or confess it
everything i ever done wrong
i wish I could bring it back
you get strokes, you get cut
you get love, you get cracks
happened so many times now
hope is like an attack
i don’t get broken, I just get bent
i don’t get bought , I just get spent
only one way to say it:
i'm a dirty liar,
i'm a dirty liar yeah
smoke in the sky,
the roof is on fire!
see this mouth,
hear a dirty liar!
taking it to the bridge
but don't know if i
can bring it back
it’s a party,
people get wired!
stay up late
gonna get tired!
if there’s love,
it’s after desire!
see a church,
inside’s a choir!
to get a job
gotta get hired!
get arrested,
they check your priors!
smoke in the sky,
the roof is on fire!
see this mouth,
hear a dirty liar!
i’m a dirty dirty liar , (yeah )
i'm a dirty liar yeah
never been nothin else but
i’d stop it if i had the guts
it don't matter if I find
a rock in my hand
or a flawless diamond
they both got the same shine
since i've been gone and you're not mine
(singing:)
every damn thing,
i wish I could bring it back
sometimes you gotta caress it
sometimes you gotta cut it
ON ALBUMS:
- Boomhitech Alittlebitwreck
- Various Chimeras
- Kiss the Honey, Honey (other versions)
CREDITS:
Lyrics: Kirby Ian Andersen
Music: Kirby Ian Andersen
Vox: Shaun Skeer
Performed by: Shinjuku Zulu
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