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Free Food is the first single from the album Here Comes The Actual Band, due out in May 2024.
This is a song about free food, except it’s not just about that. This is what happens when I try to write a song about wanting to live in a socialist utopia: it still comes out as a song about romantic longing.
This version is the #work of the Actual Band, which currently comprises:
Mar K - bass
Lily Rae - drums
Charley Stone - vocals and guitars
Gang backing vocals: Mar K, Nick Kiddle, Lily Rae, Charley Stone
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jon Clayton at OneCat Recording Studio, who went far above and beyond and is recommended for all #artists and actual bands.
lyrics
The rain is pouring down
So wear your teacup crown
Pour it into your soup
You won't believe what you save when you do it all this way
The cobwebs in the trees
Are floating in the breeze
The spiders hide away
And the flies will be by when it's time to be their prey, yeah
Because the spiders, you see
They don't have to work for the man
They don't have to work to get money to buy food from the man
No - the spiders, they are the man
They just take what they want
But you know
We could be like that too when we're
Walking along a parkland walk with a
Punnet in our hands collecting blackberries to
Take home to make some jam
Oh yeah
Let's make some jam
Picking all the blackberries
Digging up the roots
I'm a born again freegan
With a sack full of loot
Free food
Free food
Free food
Free food
This is a song about free food
But being a song
It's not just about food
No, because this song
Like many songs
Employs the use of metaphor
And in this song
Perhaps food becomes a metaphor
For love
Because we all need love, right
We need food but we also need love
We need free food
And free love
One day when love comes round
She'll rub my shoulders down
And soak my aching feet
What a steal when you feel
Someone you wanna be felt by
Yeah
Oh yeah
Let's make some jam
One of these days
I'll have it all on my plate
When everything's free
Life will be so great
Free food
Free food
Free food
Free food
Free food
Free food
Free food
Free food
Free food
credits
released November 3, 2023
Recorded in one take (well, the best of three) with the Actual Band. Acoustic guitar and "gang" vocals overdubbed but otherwise it's the sound of the three of us playing/singing live in the same room. In case anyone's wondering.
Before every vacation, I face the challenge of finding fresh music that is dynamic but not too hard, and that is so emotional and catchy that it doesn't get on my nerves after just two days of touring. During that search I discovered OBEY ROBOTS and it took me only a few moments to put "One in a thousand" on the playlist. The album rocks, combines strong "Therapy?"-like guitars with Laura's soulful, distinctive vocals to quite a few hits, just check "One of these days" or "Next Summer"! H.L.
The renditions of these songs are so beautiful and raw. While I love the originals, these stripped down versions show so much feeling from Laura and it just pierces your soul. Love love love. Thanks! supashoppa
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