I Feed on Your Fears

by Babu Menos

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This song was recorded over a few days in 2016 for an album-to-be that later became the EP “If Not Now, Then When?” — without “I Feed on Your Fears”, for whatever reason (I honestly don’t remember).

I had totally forgotten it even existed. When I found it on my hard drive, I did some remastering and designed a cover for it, using a free photo by the brilliant Brazilian photographer Thuanny Gantuss.

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I Feed on Your Fears

Models are too tall for me,
Models never fall for me.
Mommy made a teeny-weeny me.

Watch me tripping,
Hear me clipping,
Clip-clop goes the horse with my name.

Catch me slipping,
Dry me dripping,
I’m the one to feed on your fears.

Toddlers are the size of me,
Toddlers are to grow, not me.
Mommy made a short and sorry me.

Cuddly I will never be,
Cuddly are but bears and bees.
Mommy made a moany bony me.

Watch me tripping,
Hear me clipping,
Clip-clop goes the horse with my name.

Catch me slipping,
Dry me dripping,
I’m the one to feed on your fears.

Dawdler I am, plain too see,
Dawdler I will always be.
Mommy made an idle-tidal me.

Idler I am glad to be,
Idler I will always be.
Mommy never wanted me to be.

credits

released December 12, 2022
All vocals, instruments, composition, and lyrics: Babu Menos

Cover image: Thuanny Gantuss via Pexels, www.pexels.com/photo/11805760

Fonts: Julieta Ulanovsky, github.com/JulietaUla/Montserrat,
Peter Wiegel, peter-wiegel.de

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Babu Menos

Babu Menos is a musician (composer and lyricist, multi-instrumentalist and singer), writer, smart-ass, idler, and former traveller — amidst this climate catastrophe, one cannot travel in good conscience anymore.

Header image:
Lee Soo Hyun via Unsplash (unsplash.com/photos/black-and-grey-drum-set-8-psfJaqbnI) ... more

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