One of the highlights of my summer has definitely been doing music. July was the culmination of months of work and it included two live shows, one in Charlottesville on July 5 and one in DC on July 6.  While my bandmate Josh D’Elia was in town for those, we shot a music video with the aide of our good buddy, Jeremi Rimel of Miscreation Toys.




The song is called “Stay Awake My Precious Child” and the video is most certainly inspired by the 80s, the decade that gave me both my love for Depeche Mode and the Cure as well as HIV. Of all of the songs on my band’s new CD, Numb to the Numbers, this is the one I am most proud of. The lyrics are below.

Positively Yours,
Shawn

Stay Awake My Precious Child
(Synthetic Division, 2012)

you won’t find your place
searching with a guilty look
so misplaced is gathered rage
an anger that’s misunderstood
sadness goes around
stays until it’s been replaced

i hold hope, you’ve let yours slide
it’s easy, here is your plan

stay awake
stay awake
stay awake my precious child

some may act their age
some may turn the other page
some may crack another’s book
some will earn another look

i know where you want to hide
just reach out
help is at hand

i hold hope, you let yours slide
it’s easy here is your plan

stay awake
stay awake
stay awake my precious child