What Then Do You Do?

from Aries by Dean Batten

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What then do you do, when the happy dream is killing you?
Somehow, the wire's in your meat.
And you cannot retreat into the Holy, Total Absolute.
You are still a being, even if there's no such thing.

Take me down again, there must be something I can learn from it.
Take me down again, I will bend until all these words can fit into a wave.
Each a every day a struggle I can't figure out
What's worth it and what's pushing luck I don't have to lose...

What then do you do, when you can't change what created you?
How then do you live?
There's nothing you can give that isn't made from poison fruit.
It's only partial truth you're seeing, the nature of a human being.

Take me down again, I need to find a quiet place to sit.
Take me down again, maybe I should not revisit it;
Because I'm made each and every day by the thoughts that I drink up.
I change them and I change the world I'm in.

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from Aries, track released January 30, 2021
Written, produced and mixed by Dean Batten

Arranged by Dean Batten and Chris Veilleux

Mastered by Michael Mattice III

Sax, acoustic guitar and drum recordings engineered by Trent Berry at
Dream Rack Studios, San Francisco, CA
Electrics, Bass and vocal recordings engineered by Dean Batten at his apartment in Los Angeles

Dean Batten - Guitars, Vocals, Drums
Chris Veilleux - Bass, Saxophone

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Dean Batten Daytona Beach, Florida

Often genre-bending, thought provoking and emotion stoking, Dean Batten's music is most concretely one thing: captivating.

Moving forward from his previous work, Dean has re-embraced the folk, early rock and country sounds of his childhood with 3 new albums: "Optimist Breakfast", an acoustic album; "Pessimist Lunch", a full band version with the same songs; and "Realist Supper", a live album. ... more

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