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Real Genuine Fake

from Eyes on the Rise by Cory Seznec

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Inspired by the great philosopher Alan Watts

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Riding the train of thoughts to the end of the line
Wondering why no one else is along for the ride
Trying to open my eyes
But I’m hypnotized
And the train keeps hallucinating my mind

In an artist squat in Strasburg St Denis
Pot smoke homilies and graffiti
The art is the act
To enact is an art
Spray up the world and save all the refugees

Hey hey for heaven’s sake
I’m a real genuine fake

You’ve been paying your own piper and calling the tune
By your own thoughts you’ve been fooled
If you admit it you’d give it all away
But just like me you’re a real bona fide genuine fake

Marcus plays the markets while standing on his head
Hustling bustling muscling his way for his bread
The money’s a myth
A contract with
A bunch of crabs in a bottomless bucket

Ernestine plays it clean never cracking a smile
Earnestly solidly going the extra mile
But in her heart it’ll all come apart
When she takes off her face and sees there’s no one inside

Build your cloud-capped tower up into the sky
Alleluia living in a digital paradise
But if the real’s already fake then the fake fake makes
The true hoax seem like a lie

Hey hey make no mistake
I’m a real genuine fake

You’ve been paying your own piper and calling the tune
By your own thoughts you’ve been fooled
If you admit it you’d give it all away
But just like me you’re a real bona fide genuine fake


Hey hey for heaven’s sake
give me a break
make no mistake
I’m a real genuine fake


You’ve been paying your own piper and calling the tune
By your own thoughts you’ve been fooled
If you admit it you’d give it all away
But just like me you’re a real bona fide genuine fake

Honest-to-goodness
Unadulterated
Undoctrinated
Undisputed
Unadulterated
Authentic
The real McCoy…

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from Eyes on the Rise, released November 11, 2022
Cory - guitar, harmonica, vocals

Daniel Mizrahi - drums, keys, bass

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Cory Seznec Paris, France

Somewhere between musical wanderer and uncertified ethnomusicologist dwells the artist Cory Seznec and his unique world.
A French-American in Paris, Seznec’s fingerstyle guitar-playing is syncopated, polyrhythmic, cross-pollinated, and idiosyncratic. He also sings, plays old-time banjo, and wades in the deep river of American song.
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