Be Like That

from Coming of Age by Kieran Hegarty

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Be Like That (1996) This song is about gaining a renewed sense of direction…coming through admissions: these are the problematic ways I’ve been in the past…and this is how I envisage being. It took blunt honesty, vulnerability & courage to change…allowing great benefits to become possible, including the resilience to withstand the huge setbacks that lay ahead of me. It’s a story of possible transformation…rising above my limitations through an ‘evolutionary leap’.

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Be Like That -words & music: Kieran Hegarty

V1.
There’s a prison that I live in, a ball & chain I’m draggin’ round
A hundred burdens on my shoulders drive this beast into the ground
I lay the traps that keep me captive, take the bait each time for sure
Play ‘the hunter’ & ‘the hunted’…I can’t resist the lure

V2.
I’m a mouse & not a man here, let the sleeping giant lie
Keep the blossom in the dark, don’t let it open to the sky
Feel like I’m going round in circles, & vicious ones at that
Making mountains out of molehills, a rod for my own back

Chorus It’s all…self-inflicted...and it needn’t be like that
self-inflicted...and it needn’t be like that
self-inflicted...and it needn’t be like that

V3.
There’s a life I could be leading, where I’d be standing tall
To face the “slings & arrows”…take the bull in by the horns
Where I could laugh at failure…& take it in my stride
Be an old dog learning new tricks like swallowing my pride

V4.
Oh to have my cake & eat it, not to settle for the crumbs
Trust my imagination, when the chips are down
To partner up with freedom & dance a merry tune
To make ‘walking on the water’ a simple kind of move

Chorus It could be initiated and really be like that
Yeah…initiated and really be like that
Yeah…initiated and really be like that

credits

from Coming of Age, released April 22, 2023
Vicki Fergusson - piano & backing vocals
Tony O'Connor - electric Bass
Tony Burt - dobro resonator guitar
Kieran Hegarty - acoustic rhythm & lead guitar & vocals
Mike Duffy - sound recording & mixing

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Kieran Hegarty Wellington, New Zealand

New Zealander of Irish descent; songwriter & composer; multi-instrumentalist (acoustic guitar, tenor banjo, tin whistle); plays folk-rock, ballads & traditional tunes. Attended School of Creative Musicianship in Auckland and the London Guitar Institute. Member of Nu Kelts, London in early 90s. Song topics are of personal experiences, family history and political perspective as an environmentalist. ... more

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