Don’t Just Stand There

from Logical Path by Sam Arnold

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lyrics

Don’t just stand there
Standing is insufficient
You can stand there but
you ought to do other things too

I can be convinced that your stance is acceptable
The shadow that you cast has a charismatic character
You are a creature of substance and opacity
If allowed I’d insist on additional activity
Waht’s your name? If you stand there and answer
Will I have enough information to make a good decision?
Until I know more I’ll call you standing entity and I will try to be polite and suggest that you don’t just stand

Do you stand to eradicate the evil in your heart
Do you stand to instantiate the truest highest art?
Such questions you cannot stand to hear me ask
And where’d you get the idea that standing is your only task?
Just standing there might feel alright at certain times
But I’ve made the case for present uncertainty with my rhymes
I stand with her and him I stand with them I stand fir it
Who cares? It only matters if there’s measurable benefit

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from Logical Path, released February 1, 2024
composed, produced, and mixed by Sam Arnold, Suave Entropy Music (ASCAP)

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Sam Arnold Austin, Texas

(photo by Matt Silaski) Metal, Jazz, Art-pop Americana singer-songwriter, electronic and experimental composer/instrumentalist Sam Arnold is a musician living in Austin TX. Sam generally collaborates to varying degrees with some of the best creative musicians and engineers in the Austin progressive art-music scene, including from his bands Opposite Day and Stop Motion Orchwstra. ... more

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