How To Be A Genuine Fake

from Total Rest of the Intellect (demos) by David Safran

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Bitches be blowing up my phone.
They all seemed better whilst on Hydrocodone.
I’m passably handsome. I’m partly awake.
Oh how can I be a genuine fake -

When lover, I'm dead. Lover, I'm dying.
Lover, I'm caterwauling and crying.
Lover, I am faulting my fate.
Lover, I'm bed-bound. Lover, I'm faded.
Lover, I'm sweet when self-medicated.
Lover, I'm too played out to break
Or learn how to be a genuine fake.

My industry failed me - I can’t wait to quit.
But if this is my field, I’ve been buried in it.
I’m angry forever; I throw bread in the lake.
And think: how to be a genuine fake.

Lover, I’m dead. Lover, I’m dying.
Lover, I’m caterwauling and crying.
Lover, I am faulting my fate.
Lover, I’m bed-bound. Lover, I’m faded.
Lover, I'm sweet when self-medicated.
Lover, I'm too played out to break
Or learn how to be a genuine fake.

I wrote a hundred songs for Marianne Faithfull.
Her people were French: I wasn't successful.
I wrote a dozen books. All that came to me
Was a skill to send emails glacially.

Lover, I’m dead. Lover, I’m dying.
Lover, I’m caterwauling and crying.
Lover, I am faulting my fate.
Lover, I’m bed-bound. Lover, I’m faded.
Lover, I'm sweet when self-medicated.
Lover, I'm too played out to break
Or learn how to be a genuine fake.

Anchorhold Music/Girl Ratso ©2014

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from Total Rest of the Intellect (demos), released November 17, 2015

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David Safran Chicago, Illinois

David Safran is a writer, musician, and producer.. A noted figure in Chicago's music scene, Safran has attracted acclaim for his "boundary-breaking tunes" (WNUR) and dark, provocative lyrics "spike[d]...with humor" (The Chicago Reader).

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