This is a song that was written quickly in 2013 or 2014 while drunkenly looking up at the stars one night. It was written so quickly that I just "tossed it" in the done pile and then moved on to the next song. Late in 2021 I came across the simple acoustic demo that I made for it and for the first time I heard more potential in it than when it was originally written.. Off and on over the next few months I played around with it and eventually brought it into it's current incarnation. I enjoyed getting to experiment with different sounds. I went for "damaged" sci-fi.
I hope you enjoy it.

Someone Else's Sky

My first FAWM entry

The Drippy Hippie (Sweats with Positivity)

Busted for Possession
They’ll never get my confession
I fight the system that just can’t handle my truth.
They got me in this holding cell
Tryin’ to prove “intent to sell”
Gotta stay positive & see it through.

These snitches need some transcendental meditation
But socially speaking they lack the lubrication

The drippy hippie sweats with positivity
You can’t deny the depths of my clarity
Livin the dream to deny all reality
The drippy hippie sweats with positivity

Got released and moved up to Whitefish 
But had to pass through Browning.
The Blackfoot Nation sure as shit ain’t forgot.
Got me a girl with new tattoos
She’s doing well in real estate
We post inspirational selfies by the lake

I think it’s cute she tries to get me sober
My little pumpkin spiced yoga poseur

The drippy hippie sweats with positivity - I got that drip
You can’t deny the depths of my clarity - I got that drip
Livin the dream to deny all reality - I got that drip
The drippy hippie sweats with positivity - I got that drip

1st time at the drum circle?
Let’s see what you got.
Do you bongo?????
Do you Didgeridoo?

Uh…. does that phone get a signal?
Might want to download a metronome app son
You sound like bullshit

Until then the software shall quantities
I got the visine for all 3 eyes

The drippy hippie sweats with positivity - I got that drip
You can’t deny the depths of my clarity - I got that drip
Livin the dream to deny all reality - I got that drip
The drippy hippie sweats with positivity - I got that drip

FAWM

The Drippy Hippie (Sweats with Positivity)

Anhedonia

A Case of the Somedays

I can barely bring myself to make the bed
You’ll find me staring off instead.
The ticking of the clock just gets lost inside the noise
Of routine’s I probably should destroy

Oh I don’t know
Maybe I’ll just go
“If it’s meant to be”
Just a conceit

But the chores are piling up
& time is off the rails
& that bucket list is starting to smell stale

I keep waiting for someday
Not a single plan’s been made But I guess someday soon we’ll see
Inoculated from too late
To catch a case of the todays
Seems to be just the thing that we need.

It’s a bit unlikely and a bit unlike me
To abandon all that needs getting done
With this heart for the road and these boots for the trail
& I know someone somewhere is setting sail

Well I suppose
Just follow my nose
Is there a shot for this?
Leave me anonymous 

Between ambition and doubt 
This undertow just keeps me down 
It’s a current I will never understand
Need to make a plan

I really hope that someday
I pick the lock on my own chain 
To feel the freedom in that click of release
Inoculated from too late
Caught a case of the todays
Seems to be just the thing that we need.

A Case Of The Somedays

Music by Bruce Butkovich
Lyrics by Alias Patrick Kelly

Participation Award
Do you think I’m on the high road
Just to take the long way around?
Only the patient one can get us there.
 
Charts n graphs n Chaperones
Hold my hand inside the store
Another quarter in the swear jar 
That always takes a little more
 
CHORUS
Please, don’t feed any animals
Keep your hands and feet at all times here onboard
I put too much in to this for oh so little
An easy win becomes just another participation award.
 
If I have to say “I told you so”
Then it’s not a win
Another Xmas gift – I’ll be re-gifting
 
Hold my beer I’m coming through
To fall upon your sword for you
Is that a rattle beneath the stone that I’m lifting - For you.
 
CHORUS
Please, don’t feed any animals
Keep your hands and feet at all times here onboard
I put too much in to this for oh so little
An easy win becomes just another participation award.
 
BRIDGE
It’s a victory I guess,
It barely made the charts
The small ones don’t impress
Aw, bless your heart
 
It’s a victory I guess,
Got cast in a bit part
The truth can be finessed
Aw, bless your heart

Participation Award

Ferocious rocker with heartfelt and sincere lyrics about plowing ahead and not giving up

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