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Reel Men
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Reel Men
Crazy kid with a cowboy head
Smoked and drank, fought and bled
Beat his love back with blues and reds
‘Cos this is what reel men did
Stupid kid you believed what they said
And now you only lie in bed
You threw away all you had
By being so good at acting bad
You believed all the lies
About how men never cry
So you slowly died inside
with no sunsets for you to ride
When no woman would be the bride
Of society’s Mister Hyde
Silver screen
Silver times
Silverheels
Rides behind
But no one told you of the danger
Of living like the Lone Ranger
Media kid swallowed it whole
Traded away his very soul
Prayed to the god he was told
Lived forever in a land of gold
Reel men of projected light
Cast their shadows dark as night
Until we all lost sight
That evil can also dress in white
You believed all the lies
About how men never cry
So you slowly died inside
with no sunsets for you to ride
When no woman will be the bride
Of society’s Mister Hyde
Hi Ho Silver
So bewildered
Please deliver
Us from itchy fingers
No one warned us of the danger
Of living like the Lone Ranger
Hi ho and away
die to live another day
Reel men always fade away
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Lach Edinburgh, UK
Lach, founder of the Antifolk movement and star of BBC Radio 4's The Lach
Chronicles.
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