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Tell Me What​’​s Real

from When The World Opens Up Again by Lord Baldwin

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Tell Me What’s Real

With everything perfect;
There’s never been a need for you to have to give
any room for pause.
When it’s not perfect;
you point in all other directions
to divert from your failings and flaws.

You want respect, you want to be loved,
even in light of your big mistake
but in the end, how can you give back
if all you know now is, how to take?

You’re not perfect;
but none of us are, and for all of us, it’s never been a big deal.
So, don’t tell me what you think it is that I want to hear;
tell me what’s real.

Coming from privilege;
you can spin a lie, keeping it going as long as
it makes you look good.
Coming from privilege;
you exaggerate everything; hoping no one is
looking under the hood.

With values stilted and warped,
you want everyone to buy in and agree
but how come you expect or even think
you could ever relate to me?

Coming from privilege;
there’s no way that someone like you
could ever know how I feel,
so don’t blatantly lie to my face,
tell me what’s real.

You know you’re better;
better than others; it’s how you’ve coped with
the world thus far.
You feel you’re better;
and you over inflate yourself to look much bigger
than you really are.

And when they finally call you out
you call them liars, you call them fools
and if they persist because they’re right
you stop playing by the rules.

You think you’re better;
from that vantage point
there’s no way you could ever know how I feel,
so don’t tell me what it is that you think
I want to hear,
tell me what’s real.
Yeah, tell me what's real

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from When The World Opens Up Again, released July 4, 2020

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Lord Baldwin Olympia, Washington

Lord Baldwin has created 44 ALBUMS
between 1991 and 2001

Between 2011 and 2023, created, 23 ALBUMS

Published a 4-book series called, “Stepping Between The Ants”

A 4-book series called, “From The Lost Letters Sent” chronicling the first 44 albums' songs created between 1968 to 2001

As playwright, wrote a musical play (book) called;
““RESILIENT the Musical” A Web-Based Episodic Play & Story” ... more

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