Story Behind The Song

Performing in high profile venues sometimes means people will introduce themselves to me, inferring we know each other better than we do. It is so others will think more of them, never mind I get to endure the superficial conversation. Rather than go along with it, I often stop it short, and politely. This song isn't so polite perhaps.

Song Description

Many people don't know how to have meaningful conversation with someone. If the someone is a ''celebrity', the conversation they want to have often menas nothing to the 'celebrity.' The song is about not going along with the mundane and stupid.

Lyrics

What?s New How Are You?
(c) 2004, words and music, C. Coadic

what?s new how are you how are things
I sigh inside for all your questions really mean
I?m answering for eyes moving past me
posturing for prospects far more interesting

what?s new how are you still empty
drowning in polluted time
still lost I see
are you doing anything to feed your soul
can anyone anywhere still see your world?s hollow

I will not suspend common sense for you
I will not pretend to wallow with you
I will not defend our friendship as true
just to fill in your silence

so your what?s new how are you means ask me
how I am about the wounds you plainly bleed
you justify every high as nothing
so every low just learns to grow into a shame again

I will not suspend common sense for you
I will not pretend to wallow with you
I will not defend our friendship as true
just to fill in your silence


what?s to judge nothing but love remains
you will stay a hopeful poet?s lost refrain
but I

I will not suspend common sense for you
I will not pretend to wallow with you
I will not defend our friendship as true
just to fill in your silence

I will not suspend common sense for you
I will not pretend to wallow with you
I will not defend our friendship as true
just to fill in your silence