Best Beasts (solo acoustic)

from Solo Acoustic by Matt Harlan

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Acoustic version of "Best Beasts"

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Pick me up and take me for a ride.
Flip me over like a 45.
Drag me tumbling through the riptide.
I need to look the way I feel tonite –
Fucked up and twisting on my axis and
Inhaling lies to find the truth in them.
Strung out on pills that feel like heroin.
Man, I’m no different than you.

Lit up like gods or barely getting by.
Concealing secrets from our darker sides.
Pure demand wrapped up in infinite supply.
Man, I can’t stop it, how bout you?
We are no different.

From West Virginia to the Golden Coast -
Thin-skinned and howling on the radio -
No single one of us immune.
Who’s got you certain of the world you know?
Half stitched together where the seams all show,
No single one of us in tune.

We’re just trying to be the best beasts we can be
And find a way to sleep.
Don’t dig too deep.

Hanging on to ships that sailed away.
Pretending things should always be this way.
The future’s coming for you soon.
We’re all so certain of the world we know -
Half stitched together where the seams all show.
No single one of us in tune.

We’re just trying to be the best beasts we can be
And find a way to sleep.
Don’t dig too deep, you'll see
The best beasts we can be.

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from Solo Acoustic, released March 5, 2021
Written by Matt Harlan (Ghost Moon Music, BMI)

Matt Harlan - vox / guitar

Recorded by Paul Beebe at Beebe Gunn Studio in Houston, TX

Mixed / Mastered by Jeff McDonald in Houston, TX

Photo by Brian T. Atkinson

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Matt Harlan Houston, Texas

Matt Harlan is a troubadour of the first degree, bringing songs of bus-stops, coffee-shops and lives overlooked to stages across his home-state of Texas, the USA and Europe. His expressive vocals recall Chris Smither and Chris Knight, shading his poignant songs with soaring heart and aching grit. ... more

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