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Hard Times

by Matt Cracked Frye

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1.
Hard Times 02:54
I spilt my coffee on my lap this morning I laughed out loud it was funnier than a god damn joke Cause hard times are the only times I’m having I guess that’s why I’m gonna take another toke Hard time It’s a hard time Hard time Hard times in you head and hard times on the street Hard times in your bed and on the lips of the people you meet It’s hard getting up and it’s even harder coming down We’ve seen hard times all around Hard time It’s a hard time Hard time Well we got hard times all up in this city And down in your town I know it's not pretty Cause hard times make it hard to get along And I got hard times all up in this song Hard time It’s a hard time Hard time
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I got a rotten pumpkin on my front porch I got a picture of a turkey on my back door I got Christmas trees, Easter bunnies and more I got an American flag out in my backyard I keep it up high cause we’re always at war Red, white, and blue I see you soar Red, white and blue could be black, yellow or orange It could be that guy with a crooked arm I’m not here to sound off no alarms Cause I don’t speak Spanish but I wish I could Speak it everyday yeah you know you would I’m not a carpenter but I wish I could work with wood We’re all living this American life it might be different then mine You could be Spanish or Jewish you could be from Palestine That’s fine, that’s fine Just the other day I was eating egg rolls With my chop sticks out of my Chinese’s bowl Trying to switch it up it’s been my latest goal Cause I like my meat bloody with a side of fries An extra large coke don’t ask me why Bacon egg and cheese that’s how I get by We’re all living this American life it might be different than mine You cold be African you could be West Indian or an Asian That’s fine, that’s fine I got a rotten pumpkin on my front porch I got a picture of a turkey on my back door I got Christmas trees, Easter bunnies and more I got an American flag out in my backyard I keep it up high cause we’re always at war Red, white, and blue we see you soar
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One Shoe On 02:12
If I had the chance to get up and go I’d get back to bed smoke a cigarettes instead I’d procrastinate instead One shoe on and one shoe off I’m known as that guy who’s got a smokers cough I’ve got to get up I’ve got to pay my rent I got money in my hands and now it’s all been spent 40 oz. sounds like sunshine in a bag It would be the very best friend that I ever had It don’t treat me too bad One shoe on and one shoe off I’m known as that guy who’s got a smokers cough I’ve got to get up I’ve got to pay my rent I got money in my hands and now it’s all been spent I got to get crooked so that I can see straight I got to get through all those things that I hate And all those things that I break One shoe on and one shoe off I’m known as that guy who’s got a smokers cough I’ve got to get up I’ve got to pay my rent I got money in my hands and now it’s all been spent Things come together when things fall apart Past out on the tiles another false start It’s another start One shoe on and one shoe off I’m known as that guy who’s got a smokers cough I’ve got to get up I’ve got to pay my rent I got money in my hands and now it’s all been spent I paid my rent It came and went I think that I’m spent
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Some people say Matt hey you look out of it You haven’t written a new song in a week that will be too long Well I’ve been working playing and singing Writing and thinking and a whole lot of drinking Songs come and go out the back door you know Try to catch it and don’t let go of it I’ve got a crack in my ceiling a bucket full of water An empty bottle why do I bother I’ve got a fear of falling on my face I’ve got a fear of losing this race And I’ve got a fear of being a drunken disgrace But I still got faith Spoken: Well I get really drunk and I lose thing sometimes. Over here and over there sometimes nowhere. Well I woke up this morning the weather was fair Couldn’t find my cell phone hope I left it over there In my dirty laundry and not at the bar On that train or in the back of that car But I’ll get me a new one won’t be as good as the old one It won’t have a camera it’s not that much fun But it will get the job done and I can still call you Ask you how you’re doing and tell you that I love you I’ve got a fear of falling on my face I’ve got a fear of losing this race And I’ve got a fear of being a drunken disgrace But I still got faith Some people say Matt hey you look out of it You haven’t written a new song in a week that will be too long
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This album was recorded by Jon Hildenstein at the Creamery studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn in the summer of 2010. Each song was recorded in one take using a few condenser mics. It was then mastered at Olive Juice Music by Major Matt Mason in the lower East Side.

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released November 13, 2010

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Matt Frye is a singer songwriter from North Carolina based out of Brooklyn. His influences rang from Woody Guthrie, John Prine and Ol’ Dirty Bastard. The songs themselves have a dirty twang. They rhyme sometimes. And there’s something disarmingly cheerful about them, Frye’s acoustic guitar and smile evoke campfire singalongs, even as the lyrics center on the deteriorating effects of loneliness.

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"The troubadour Matt Frye, who is from North Carolina and who now lives in Brooklyn, can be found playing cafés in far corners of the borough, which has become as great an influence on his music as his home state has been. The collision between Southern ways and big-city life produces gritty, quirky songs, sung with a breezy lilt."

-The New Yorker
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