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Why Even Bother? (feat The Verve Pipe)

by NEWSKI, The Verve Pipe, Brian Vander Ark

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FLOOD MAGAZINE: “Why Even Bother?,” the brand new single from Newski which features harmonies from Van Der Ark, sounds dutifully reverential for the ’90s alt-rock scene that’s lent Dirt From the Road so many of its guests, while the lyrics take on a religious hypocrisy that feels a little more timeless.

‘I don’t believe in church, but I do believe in God’—a very drunk nightclub owner said this to me on a sidewalk in Lisbon, Portugal at 8 a.m.,” Newski recalls. “I think religion can be a wonderful thing. However, when it is used in super-abundance, individuals can exploit it to pawn off all self-responsibility to a higher power. Regardless of what we believe in, we gotta take responsibility for our own actions before we harm others.”

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You’re sitting out in the yard
In a blown out car
Drinking swirl from a Koozie
and you chew on the can
Is this the end of you man?
You said you’re glad it’s the end
Jesus is making a comeback
So you’re calling it quits

Saying things that mean nothing
Like “it is what it is”
Or ”having said that”
Because why even bother?
When he’s walking on water
But how can we be sure?
It’s hard to see way out here from the shore

I don’t know, but I don’t think so

You’re talking real cheap smack
that you can’t take back
and runnin on plastic, because trust is elastic
So we poison the air
And we poison the culture
And we get all the police to go undercover
Responsibility, oh no
Oh what a liability
Because it’s too much to take
And the data’s erased
Is this really the end?
Are we too late?

I don’t know, but I don’t think so

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released July 29, 2022
Written by NEWSKI
Backing vox by Brian Vander Ark
Drums/bass by Spatola
Engineered by Spatola in MKE
Mastering by Justin Perkins

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NEWSKI Milwaukee, Wisconsin

FESTIVAL APPEARANCES: Rolling Stone Festival, Iceland Airwaves, Reeperbahn Germany, SXSW official

BRETT NEWSKI supports and tours: 
Courtney Barnett, Pixies, Violent Femmes, Manchester Orchestra, New Pornographers, Chuck Ragan, Rocky Votolato, Ezra Furman, Better than Ezra ... more

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