Name: Distraction
Duration: 3 min 36 s
Channel: William McGuffey Perry
Description: "Distraction" is a song by Wm Perry.

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Wm Perry

Singer/songwriter, Indie self-recorded: Wm Perry writes & performs tight, well-crafted songs. Honest & not boring, sometimes disturbing, with jangled-y edges. T

"I approach the writing of songs as if it's the only tool I have, with which to do something I don't understand." BIOGRAPHY: Failed. Kept moving. Your typical starving artist story. BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, followed by several years in the Sign Industry. Front man in a multitude of short-lived bands, playing in clubs and warehouses in Chicago and LA's artsy, marginal war-zone neighborhoods. Now solo artist, self-recording. Bought a cheap, old house on Craig's List (without seeing it first!) and moved from Chicago to Cincinnati, an "economic refugee" you could say. Now completing renovations that make four floors of combined living/studio space and working on new music.

Song Info

Genre

Alternative • Indie

Author

William McGuffey Perry

Rights

Wm Perry

Uploaded

March 22, 2011

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.3 MB • 128 kbps • 3:36

Lyrics

Distraction - William McGuffey Perry

It was that very night that I made that promise
That every light in town just burned out
It was on that very morning as I gathered my belongings
That all of my dreams had succumbed to doubt

And you can’t tell me one way or the other
Not that I’d listen, not that you’d bother
It’s just a distraction from the real mistake
And here in that rat’s nest’s the next move I’ll make

It’s not very different the first time around
In a place nowhere special, run into the ground
A broken contraption, a snapped rubber band
Barren of dreams and empty of hand

And you can’t tell me one way or another
Not that I’d listen, not that you’d bother
It’s just a distraction from the real mistake
And there in that rat’s nest’s the next move I’ll make

It was on this very evening as I set my things down
On a bed ten blocks east in the same lightless town
With an Eveready flashlight and a sextant on the sun
It was you or never, it was now or no one

And I can’t tell you one way or another
Not that you’d listen, not that I’d bother
It’s just a distraction from the real mistake
And in that rat’s nest is the next move I’ll make

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