Indifferent Skin

from Grand Measures by lesserman

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This song is about the idea that we may be robbing ourselves of many joys in the effort to protect ourselves from pain. Perhaps the better course through this life is not a negative mindset, but one that regains an aspect of our childlike wonder and anticipation despite our painful experiences, a defiant hope.
-Joshua Topliffe

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Detached and unconcerned. Callous and uninvolved. Distant, disinterested, carless and unaffected. Critic, cynic, stoic, analytic, skeptic, static. I wonder if the sad truth is too apparent; that we all are hiding things beneath the veneer of hardness. Thinking nothing can crack our toughened husk. As if by wearing the pessimist we are protected against impending extremes, what the future may hold or loose, downturns in narrative theme. So as if it serves some broader use we hunker down with our doubts. Cynicism is just a front for hope, stoicism, a front for passion or can’t you feel it? Are you the exception believing brightness isn’t a state for us? A lesser man might ask if we are worse off now or when our naive wonder kept our view to the sky and to the moon as a promise of a new day’s dawn that would dazzle our eyes. Science affirms our bias. Optimism is added to the list of man's best friends, instilled in us by our very genes. Our nature to assume and attune to hope that our selfish successes are not just selfish sins. So let’s shed our indifferent skin to lean in. Let the whole world affect you. Lean in with all your attentive weight. Lean in. Uncertainty is part of the process. Lean in. Never abandon your investments. Lean in. Don’t neglect the dissonant truths. Lean in. Let no convention remain unquestioned. Lean in. Don’t apologize for your passion. Lean in. Don't resign yourself to failure. Lean in. Preserve no secret doubts. Lean in.

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from Grand Measures, released April 17, 2014

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