Bitter Realities

By Paul Murphy

BITTER REALITIES - - -
The collected lyrics to Paul Murphy's 1997 album, Bitter Realities, this stunning work contains the 17 searing protest/social commentary songs that made up that album, plus 2 new pieces written especially for this anthology, showing that neither his fire, nor his ire, against corruption, inequality, and social injustice has dimmed.

Harrowing works all, they tackle subject matter such as, drug addiction; exploited teenage runaways; domestic and familial abuse; moral and financial corruption; and, leaping into the very week of publication, an arraigning new work, 'And This Is Another Today', which covers matters unknown at the time of the composition of the original songs, such as Fake News, Global Warming, and online harassment.

Brought into a new era to a new audience following the internet profiling of the excoriating title track, it is a sobering thought that these lyrics are - sadly - as appropriate and relevant today, as they were when they were created.

In addition to the lyrics, Paul has written an exclusive new essay - Where It Rained Tears - to accompany them, detailing the background to the songs, the societal situation that birthed them, and his own troubled childhood and homeless years, where he witnessed first-hand many of the events he would chronicle in these works.

"A masterclass in music and poetry" - GuitarGuy

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BM42FBKL
• ISBN13: 9798362019396
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"