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Guide to the Perplexed

from Sympathetic Overdrive by The American Professionals

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Words and music by Cheryl Hendrickson
©℗ 2017 Charlie in the Box Music, ASCAP All rights reserved
Illustration by John Graham
From the album "Sympathetic Overdrive" by The American Professionals
out June 23, 2017

lyrics

Some people mess with academics and lectures
Continue growing
Yet somehow I find myself waiting behind

Is it laziness or fear?
Will you take the time to hear
My dilemma year to year?

The promise and drive
Of an eager young child
With a need to please
Dove straight into challenges
No preconceived notions
Tried anything

Successes more failures
Pubescent barbed fences
Shot through her mind
Found bits or her confidence
Stuck in the wire

Was it laziness or fear?
Did they take the time to hear
Her dilemma closing near?

Walking, reimagining a life that’s not mine
Running from reality until my lungs bleed dry
Say it’s a sickness from which I won’t hide
No doctors no medicines
No cure for this disease

Discovered a sameness
The teen years seemed blameless
Yet disquiet hovered

Inflicted self-pressure
Convinced nothing better
Got BS in four

Took off on her sojourn
Of culture and musings
Direction sought
A world full of options
Came back more confused

Called it laziness not fear
Someone took the time to hear
Her dilemma now was clear

Walking, reimagining a life that’s not mine
Running from reality until my lungs bleed dry
Say it’s a sickness from which I won’t hide
No doctors no medicines
No cure for this disease

Break up all the patterns constricting
Cool wash of symbiosis returns

Put up your dukes and fight
Don’t let it run your life
The struggle between you and you

The science confounding
Tried hawking some clothing
Then imagery
Melodies haunting
But the business seemed daunting
Stayed an underling

A search never ending
Just sitting pretending
A focus found
Chasing nebulous goals
That keep drifting away

Might be laziness or fear
Thanks for taking the time to hear
My dilemma year to year

Walking, reimagining a life that’s not mine
Running from reality until my lungs bleed dry
Say it’s a sickness from which I won’t hide
No doctors no medicines
No doctors no medicines




Words and music by Cheryl Hendrickson
©℗ 2017 Charlie in the Box Music, ASCAP All rights reserved

credits

from Sympathetic Overdrive, released June 23, 2017
Cheryl Hendrickson: bass, lead and backing vocals
Chuck Lindo: guitar, backing vocals
Adam White: drums
Rich Armstrong: trumpet, trombone
Daniel Casares: saxophones

Mixed by Adam White
Mastered by Andy VanDette
Produced by Chuck Lindo

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The American Professionals St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis hook-heavy guitar pop band The American Professionals’ core members Chuck Lindo and Cheryl Hendrickson’s music and personal lives are both intertwined and parallel. This husband/wife team makes that paradox possible on their 2017 release, Sympathetic Overdrive. The record is a genre-hopping display of both unity and individuality, fear and hope, love and scorn. ... more

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