Name: My Own Life
Duration: P00H02M26S
Description: Yeah, a little unintended Ray Davies loan. Songs like this are fictional representations of where my mind can go. It’s a bookend to “Live Like That” from The Others Yeah Right album. One of the early ones where I used the trusty P-bass.

My Own Life

from 11 String Confessions by Brad Elias

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Yeah, a little unintended Ray Davies loan. Songs like this are fictional representations of where my mind can go. It’s a bookend to “Live Like That” from The Others Yeah Right album. One of the early ones where I used the trusty P-bass.

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I don’t primp. I don’t preen.
I don’t do what is expected of a modern human being.
Shouldn’t drink. Shouldn’t smoke
Should be fast asleep by 10 PM like decent working folk.
But if I stop running, you know I’ll die.
And if I stop laughing I’d probably cry.
‘Cause it’s My Own Life!

Never planned. Never saved.
Never had a thought of what I’d do the far side of the grave.
Living life off the hook.
Living loud & loose & wild & free and never by the book.
‘Cause if I stop running, you know I’d die.
And it looks like falling but feels like flying.
‘Cause it’s My Own Life!

It doesn’t matter if you live forever
If you never get to have your way.
It doesn’t matter if you’re dumb or clever
All accomplishments will fade away
So I’m living for today!

Just enough to survive,
Just enough to prove to someone that I sometimes am alive.
Never stop for a breath.
Never wait until tomorrow to go headlong to my death.
‘Cause if I stop running, I’d surely die.
Gotta do some crackin’ before you fry.
And it’s not like failure if you don’t try.
‘Cause it’s My Own Life!

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from 11 String Confessions, released July 5, 2016
Brad Elias

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