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This song was inspired by something I saw late one night as I was just channel surfing on the TV. I came across this show "The Real World" on MTV. I had seen the show before, many years ago when I thought MTV was cool (I have since come to my senses.). This particular episode was actually a reunion/ retrospective show looking back on the first 10 years of the show's history.
I think it's strange, almost laughable, the way that the TV networks can put together the most abnormal, outrageous group of people they can find, and then call it "reality." To make matters worse, they will focus on the strangest, most bizarre, most worldly people in the group and treat them like heroes. That's not reality at all.
When I began writing this song, the first verse came to me rather quickly, as it was written with the TV still on and tuned to MTV. The second verse came later as I began to think about how often I find myself trying to compromise what I believe, simply in the name of "getting along."
You'll notice that this song asks a lot of questions about what the "real world" is, but doesn't really provide any answers. That was intentional. My reasoning was that it's really up to us as individuals to find "the real world within this cruel world we're living in." The more you look, the more you'll discover that the things of this world are nothing compared to what is offered in the next one.
lyrics
All the talking heads on the TV shows,
smugly claim that they all know
the answers.
They make heroes out of sinners,
And they make losers into winners
With no shame.
They dance around the truth and fight
Against the things we know are right,
They stumble blindly in the dark,
not looking for the light.
As arrogance becomes the king,
I look for almost anything
That'll prove to me that someone's in control, but…
Chorus: I'm looking for the real world
In this cruel world we're living in.
And I'm looking for some signs of life
In this graveyard we're passing through.
While I sit and bide my time,
Thinking up a clever rhyme
To entertain you,
The wide road gets wider
'cause no one stands up as a fighter
for what's right.
We try our best to just "get along"
With everything we know is wrong.
We tolerate their dancing
As we sing our little songs.
We compromise the truth we know
In exchange for a way to show
The world that we're
Not so different at all, but…
Chorus
But this is not the real world at all.
No, none of this is real.
What will I tell my children when they're asking for the truth?
Will they believe my answers when they can't see any proof?
Will they see this world we're living in and know that it's a lie?
Will they see what I've done and wonder why?
Chorus
But this is not the real world at all.
credits
from The Calling,
released December 6, 2005
Words and Music by Eric Gwin.
All Sounds Vocally or Anatomically Produced.
Copyright (C) 2005 Clockwork Music BMI.
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ERIC GWIN is an A Cappella Songwriter and Multi-Vocalist. He has been writing, recording, producing,
and performing a cappella music for over 30 years.
His music is all human sounds and all original (NO COVERS!).
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