Why you should give up on your dreams

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Ok ok ok ... so the subject matter of this song is quite dear to my heart. The whole "follow your dreams" thing is, IMO, a load of bollocks, and for me at least has led to the waste of a huge amount of time and effort trying to manifest a story I had made up in my head. Instead of, like, actually enjoying my life as it's happening

Me and John actually spent a couple of years working on a kind of anti-self-help book about this but, naturally, nobody was interested in publishing it, so the book got distilled into this song, plus a 5-minute talk that you can find here www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4ZnfCmTJMY

lyrics

God loves a trier
And the rest of us admire
And underdog pursuing his heart's desire.
And we all know
It's okay
To live from day to day
But being a go-getter
Is better
If you're not following a personal dream
You're probably feeling guilty about not carpe-ing the diem
But oh god all this striving is such a bore
And I don't want to do it anymore

I'm tired of trying to get things done
Just wanna do stuff that is fun
To do just purely for itself
Not as a means to something else.
The end can't justify the means
Cos nothing really ends.
I have been playing a game I cannot win
Throwing my to-do list in the bin.

The drawback of an overactive imagination
Is reality can be a source of frustration
And actually not everybody can
Get to be Marie Curie or Spiderman.
So come on come on come on come on
Take it easy on yourself.
Put those ambitions up on the shelf.
There's freedom in not having any dreams at all.
What's wrong with living big and dreaming small?

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released April 30, 2021
Recorded bit by bit in our homes while Ireland was locked down for the COVID-19 pandemic, and painstakingly pieced together by me (Cormac Parle)
... and then mixed by Chris O'Brien and Graham Murphy in The Production Suite, Dublin
... and then mastered by Richard Dowling in Wav Mastering, Limerick

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