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Shoot Me in the Head
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Shoot me in the head before you put me in a nursing home, okay?
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Ben Travis is a solo artist who writes all his own songs, as well as plays the piano, sings, produces, and engineers on his newest recordings. My goal, he says
Ben Travis is a solo artist who writes all his own songs, as well as plays the piano, sings, produces, and engineers on his newest recordings. "My goal, " he says, "is to write music that will inspire people to think and ask meaningful questions about the world around them." His style is gentle, yet thoughtful, and his musicianship is high quality. Ben is currently working on an album called "All the Way Home" which he wrote while going through the process of watching his father die of cancer. He is also working on an album of trance music called "Miles Per Second" and a new instrumental album called "Leaving the Chrysalis." Ben has just finished an instrumental album which contains quiet, meditative piano music. These songs were played in moments of inspiration, and can be used for massage therapy, meditation, or just quiet background music. This album is set up to fit a 60-minute massage session perfectly. It is called "Mentored By Life, " and will be available in CD format soon.
Song Info
Genre
Pop Indie Pop
Charts
Peak #169
Peak in subgenre #31
Author
Ben Travis
Rights
2002
Uploaded
July 31, 2011
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.9 MB 128 kbps 3:09
Story behind the song
I wrote this song while sitting in the nursing home with my dad watching his condition deteriorate. He only had to go into the nursing home at the very end, and he was pretty bad by then. He spent a lot of the last days unconscious. I learned more about the night life of nursing homes than I ever wanted to, and it inspired me to write this song.
Lyrics
(verse 1) A woman pushes her husband down the hall Outside the door You won’t see any carpet here They’ve got concrete floors You can hear other people’s televisions And an old man screaming just down the hall And the funeral home made up a calendar And now it’s hanging there on the wall (chorus) We all want to hold on to life And hold our own But shoot me in the head before you Put me in a nursing home (verse 2) Fluorescent lights come on at night And make our faces pale And if it had better locks on the doors You could call it a jail There’s a cord with a button on the end But it might be a while till anyone comes And the man sleeping in the next bed Wakes up in the middle of the night and hums (bridge) Yeah yeah, I can smell the food from here Yeah yeah, we could be here for years
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