The Director

from Damon Moon by Mango Cat

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This song is about dating a wannabe movie director, and about Ryan Gosling. These things are unrelated, but Sean wanted to squeeze as many references to Ryan Gosling movies in the lyrics as possible. Can you spot them all? The song serves as a centerpiece for the album, separating the first half and the back half. It includes an extended jam section perfect for a long midnight drive, with saxophone by Scott Box of the band Konda.

lyrics

Wake up baby, it’s time to get going
Someone’s calling you out
Harrison, Harrison
I saw the same face in the dream of an only child

Now let me pontificate on a blow up mate
Well isn’t she great
I think she looks a little like you

If she ain’t a real girl
This can’t be the real world
She could be my everything
Baby if you let me I would
Write it all down right
So you can read it when you lose your mind

But here girl
In the real world

Wake up baby, it’s time to get going
Someone’s calling you out
Eva, Maria
Well I saw the same face in the dream of an only child

And now we’re taking a break
We engineer fate
And isn’t it great
We get exactly what we wanted

I’m set in a green room
You are in a screening
Ryan Gosling monologues
Spilling out his feelings

And in spite of who’s in your line of sight
At this time
Well I pop in your mind

But here girl
In the real world
Honey real girls
In the real world
They don’t need no director
(Drive baby drive, the place beyond the pines)

They don’t need no director
They don’t need no director
She can do it better

credits

from Damon Moon, track released August 12, 2020
Sean Bryant - Songwriter, lyrics, vocals, electric guitar
Bailey Crone - Songwriter, guitar, bass, drums, additional percussion
Scott Box - Saxophone
Karli Bryant - Background vocals
Mixed and Mastered by Damon Moon at Standard Electric Recorders Co.

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Mango Cat is Sean and Bailey. We're Space Folk?

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