Safest Bet

by Horst

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lyrics

simply being good enough was never the purpose of art
It should be personal, exploring and original from its start
industrialized music has rendered its toll
with simplified concepts devoid of meaning or soul
heartless reproduction of the highest grossing act
has now become the standard guidelines to everyone's craft
profit margins promised by logistics and statistics
now determines who is artistic and gifted

swallow copy and repeat
follow the dollars, we don't want to lead
all it takes to create
is to be able to immitate

stay closely to the path that has been given
if that is the world you want to live in
I am not a gambling man, but I will refuse to fold this hand
all bets down -so ease your mind, play the safest bet
and you'll win every time

now economically viable bands, by the thousands
originally indecisive wondering what the band's sound is
inundate the market with art that lacks profoundness
and wager their integrity for a wealth that seems boundless
bet on your shit cards and I will call your bluff
I know all of your tells, I've observed them long enough
I'd rather be remembered as penniless and timeless
than known around the world as wealthy and mindless

in regard to our art, I in part, want to shudder
when I find it's defined by the lines of a cookie cutter!

stay closely to the path that has been given
if that is the world you want to live in
I am not a gambling man, but I will refuse to fold this hand
all bets down -so ease your mind, play the safest bet
and you'll win every time

credits

released November 12, 2012
all music by Chris Horst; guitar solos by Pat Peeve from EXPAIN & Aaron Teeters respectively
Logo and art by HTF: horst-art.com

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Horst Cincinnati, Ohio

Horst is a studio project with musical influences ranging from thrash, doom, power metal, gothic rock, and industrial, with a lyrical focus on the pains of the modern human condition.