#pressure #skirmish #acousticrock #groove #acoustic With a skirmish on pressure, I decided to take on the title track for my FAWM album Outside Distractions. The result surprised me, with a bluesy groove and a musical middle ground between two of my 1970s influences, the Bee Gees and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, that I never knew existed. The lyrics are all angst and spiritual crisis.

Plenty of times I’ve wondered when The reckoning comes Every day and city again Beating the drums

It’s like when the president says out of nowhere We’re going to war When everyone knows there’s nothing out there Worth fighting for

Outside distractions And you don’t know the half Outside distractions Inside collapse

You already know with the headlines and moral malaise Something’s gone wrong with the timeline’s Morality plays

I don’t go from crisis to doom to gloom Without a reason Something’s happened under the Moon The time and the season

Outside distractions And you don’t know the half Outside distractions Inside collapse

Outside inside Outside inside Outside inside Outside inside Turn the camera around Hold the buttons down

Outside distractions And you don’t know the half Outside distractions Inside collapse

Outside distractions And you don’t know the half Outside distractions Inside collapse