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pedestal

from fifti by Van Hunt

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"the problem with love is
i don't have anything to go with it
so, it just sits n my closet
with all the other empty promises" - pedestal, the #17 song n the countdown to my fiftieth bday - using my favourite songs I've recorded.

i hav always been wary of praise.
it's so helpful when it's sincere and demoralizing when it's empty. some people use empty praise to push others into living their lives for them - loving, speaking, fighting, living, and dying for them - on screen . on stage . and n their relationships. to me, the most courageous thing n the world is to look n2 the mouth of our fears, crawl inside, and love sum1. there is no reward, except watching the thing u healed thru ur love swim free. that is how it has to be.

"tonight, I've been put on a pedestal.
from the height, i know u c urself n me.
but tonight, ur gonna let me fall.
bcuz u don't believe that we really could hav it all."
in the zeal to find a saviour, heroes can b made out of bullies - and bullies punish their audience for worshipping a shell so self-loathing inside. i was asking what is being placed upon a pedestal worth? is it just a guillotine for former heroes or a bully pulpit from which to punish the people who hav put us there? a person proppd up by the pedestal can only prop up others w the pedestal. and they will let them fall bcuz they feel inadequate; and therefore cannot believe n anything u might try to build w them. imho

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Pedestal

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The problem with love is
I don’t have anything to go with it
So, it just sits in my closet
With all the other empty promises

(chorus)
But, tonight
I’ve been put on a pedestal
From the height
I know you see yourself in me
But, tonight
You’re gonna let me fall
From the height
‘Cause you don’t believe that we really could have it all

Love is sweet
But made of a material that doesn’t breathe
So, it sticks to my body
Like a chic suffocation

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from fifti, released February 8, 2020
mastered by Keith Gretlein

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