‘Pretty Life’ is the second single taken from A Million Ways To Die’s forthcoming album ‘What Lies Beneath’. Pre Add now.
A Million Ways To Die is a collaboration between Rob Mc Lennan and Dave De Vetta, originally from legendary South African band No Friends of Harry. Through exploration and via the new tech available, Dave, who lives in Edinburgh and Rob in Johannesburg, managed find a way to create music together again. Through much experimentation, they created, recorded, and produced the songs from their first EP from their respective home studio’s in South Africa and Scotland, usually meeting up over Zoom every Friday evening to assess over a bottle of tequila.
And so the Million Ways To Die journey continues with eight more songs and a new album (‘What Lies Beneath’), with the release of the duo’s second track and video taken from the forthcoming album.
The cinematography for the video is from the talented Luke Johnstone, who has a growing reputation for capturing the undiscovered aspect of Joburg’s creative sub-culture in a fresh and unvarnished way, reflecting the theme of the song and the album to follow.
Vocals and lyrics by Rob Mc Lennan
Music and all instruments by Rob Mc Lennan and Dave De Vetta
Produced, composed and recorded by Rob Mc Lennan and Dave De Vetta
Mastered by Matthew Fink for @atomicstudios_jhbct
You’re on your own
In another messy place in life
They do their thing
you do just the same
The nervous arty tribes are there
They take their drugs and wave their hands
pontificate to anyone
Whose had the same drugs as them
There’s nothing pretty about life
There’s nothing pretty about life
Every time I look away
There’s something else that’s made me pray
For things that shouldn’t be just the same
We want to be treated in the way we’re abused
It’s exhausting to exist in this vacuum
I go alone
To all these different places
They’re all the same
The same as the time before
The nervous arty tribes are there
They take their drugs and wave their hands
pontificate to anyone
Whose had the same drugs as them
There’s nothing pretty about life
There’s nothing pretty about life
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