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Faith (In a @​$​#​!​% Up World)

by Ben Leinbach

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It seems I'm mostly known for generating ambient world music and hypnotic meditative jams, but I read one too many grim headlines in the news recently and was driven to write a venting song. I didn’t want the song to be incessant complaining, so I added a good dose of sarcasm, dry humor, and hope.

The message is as tangled up as life itself. It’s a blend of cynicism and optimism, full of angst yet playful, a cathartic release and an appeal to default to love.

I drop some profanity on this one, just so you know.

Thanks for listening. Hope you dig it.

lyrics

LYRICS:

VERSE 1

Another day on planet earth and guess what? There’s more grim news

People at each other’s throats for peculiar points of view

If we don’t quite see eye to eye then, @$#!%, someone might get mowed down.

Everybody pick a side, strap up, and prepare for the showdown

PRE CHORUS

Or surrender to all that is
Remembering love is king,
It’s everything, so you might as well have faith

CHORUS

Faith, I have faith
That this @$#!% up world will see a brighter day
I have faith, I might as well have faith
In getting through this @$#!% up world okay
This @$#!% up world

Might as well have faith in a @$#!% up world


VERSE 2

Day in, day out, I grind away, just to earn a piece of the pie

Nothing more than crumbs ‘round here so guess I’ll work ’til the day I die

If the plague don’t get me, something will, maybe drought, war, a wild fire

Gonna lock it down, protect what’s mine, that’s right, and max out my stockpile

PRE CHORUS

Or surrender to all that is
Remembering love is king
It’s everything, so you might as well have

CHORUS

Faith, I have faith
That this @$#!% up world will see a brighter day
I have faith, might as well have faith
In getting through this @$#!% up world okay
This @$#!% up world


PRE CHORUS

You might as well
Surrender to all that is
Dissolve into a love supreme
It’s all a dream, so you might as well have faith

CHORUS

Faith, I have faith
That this @$#!% up world will see a brighter day
Keep the faith, you might as well have faith
In getting through this @$#!% up world okay
This @$#!% up world

Might as well have faith in a @$#!% up world

Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Can you feel it now?

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released August 3, 2020
Gawain Mathews - electric guitar
Ben Leinbach - everything else

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Ben Leinbach San Francisco, California

Ben Leinbach is an award-winning producer, composer, recordist and multi-instrumentalist. In the studio and on the stage he has worked with scores of illustrious artists in a myriad of genres. He primarily produces and composes world music, alternative pop, and records and produces singer-songwriters. He co-produced and co-composed several tracks on Jai Uttal's Grammy-nominated album Mondo Rama. ... more

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