“Don’t Rely on the Sky”
Written by Matt A Olson
featuring Matthew Mule McKinley on upright doghouse bass slappin’ duties


Don't be praying to the angels don't be counting on the saints, cuz if your looking for a miracle then your gonna have to wait, until the cows come home and the chickens come to roost, and when they pull into the station you'll stuck in the caboose

Chorus:
Don't be relying on the sky to be solving all your troubles, there ain't nothing up there that you can see with the Hubble , so if your neck deep in shit man you better grab a shovel, your prayers may just be floating through the air, god ain’t here god ain’t there god ain’t anywhere I hope

You've been rolling like a wheel but now you got a broken spoke, and you've sitting with the sinics now you think it's all a joke, and you pray that some day that we'll all go up in smoke, 
Your looking down on us while your walking a tight rope

Chorus:

There comes a time in yor life when you got to decide if your gonna come out and play or gonna run home and hide, and when your looking at the reaper at least you can say you tried, to have a hell of a ride and to go out and get satisfied

Chorus

Breakdown Chorus:
Don't be relying on the sky to be solving all your troubles, there ain't nothing up there that you can see with the Hubble , so if your neck deep in shit man you better grab a shovel, your prayers may just be floating through the air, god ain’t here god ain’t there, god is god damn everywhere I know
I know
And you know
But I still hope....

Recorded DIY style in my bedroom(s) in RI and VT and obsessed over for far too long trying to get the sound “right” while not being sure what the hell I was doing. The end result (when I finally gave up and decided to listen to everyone in my life begging me to just release the damn album already) is what you hear above. Enjoy!

* bass and banjo recorded at Matt McKinley’s house in Brandywine MD

Don't Rely on the Sky

Your fighting off the riptide of the dark and stormy seas
and some tell you it's a problem and some say it's a disease
and some tell you they can fix you, and some say there is no cure
but once it drags you under it won't matter anymore

Chorus:
now you feel it pulling you down x2
it came and took you in the night and your didn't make a sound
now you feel it pulling you down

Your a poet and a wanderer, your the man who sold his soul
to sing the blues and paint the truths upon hell's wicked door
and you climbed up to the pinnacle of misery and sin, now you thought that you could get this close without it dragging you in

Chorus-

well you climbed back up but the flames have burned a scar upon your soul, and you think that you've become upon immune to the devils burning coals, and the pain it grows inside you and puts a needle in your vein, it snorts the coke, it smokes the speed that rushes to your brain 

Chorus-

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