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SPITTING IN MY OWN FACE

from Those October Feelings by Bill White

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Risking such a vulgar hyperbole for a title phrase because I thought it neccessary to drive the point home, although it is not something that i would in fact do to myself. The song has me questioning my decision to work in relative isolation, cutting myself off from any potential audience. Is this a selfish decision or a selfless one? I do admire those who go into the world and lay their goods on the line, but also feel that such merchandising of ones soul can destroy or at least diminish their work. Yet what good is the work if it is kept hidden? I know that many of us here working in song have neither desire nor intention for public acclaim, yet sometimes such demeaning of oneself is nessessary in order to make visible the work. It is a dilemma and the one who chooses to go it alone may well wind up looking into the mirror and spitting in their own face.

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every time i get choked up
telling about somebody who did a heroic thing
my wife tells me not to cry
its got nothing to do with me

im not crying for that other guy
someone from another time and place
im crying for myself
because while he stood up
and showed the world who he was
i stayed home spitting in my own face

why do i cry when celebrities die
they are not friends i never even knew them
but they stood up and showed the world who they were
sometimes they won, sometimes they lost the race
while i sat home spitting in my own face

i was given these songs to share them
not to edify myself
in a one man relay race
standing in front of the mirror
worshipping the work of my hands
i was spitting in my own faceSPITTING IN MY OWN FACE
i was worshiping the work of my hands
spitting in my own face

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from Those October Feelings, released July 13, 2023
WRITTEN PERFORMED AND PRODUCED BY BILL WHITE

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