OFF THE PAVEMENT!

OFF THE PAVEMENT! is a single by S. Reidy. The beat was created by RM Soundshttps://sreidy.bandcamp.com/track/off-the-pavement. It was first performed live at Skate the Plaza on 09/08/23https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/s-reidy/2023/plaza-district-okc-oklahoma-city-ok-5ba30750.html. It was released to Bandcamp on 10/13/23https://sreidy.bandcamp.com/track/off-the-pavement. On the same day, a music video for the song was released on Youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g48Gm7oU4NQ. This music video was filmed at the final Mt. Reidy showthis was posted on instagram stories but can no longer be referenced. The song was released on other streaming services 10/17/23https://open.spotify.com/album/4J91imQZkpfdZCDcIbzkKS.
== Lyricshttps://genius.com/S-reidy-off-the-pavement-lyrics ==
 Off the pavement, pour my heart into a type beat
 Oklahoma boy, I'm never switching sides
 My name ain't Lincoln Riley
 Compromising isn't something I can comprehend
 My heart is torn apart, that everything I start will come to end
 Bend, break, ultimately just forget it
 There's a lesson here, I reckon that you trash your adolescence
 I said it and I meant it, X's on my hands
 And understand I fit descriptions that are more than just aesthetic
 My mug is warm, my spirit lifted on to higher planes
 My love is long, my soul is trudging on to brighter days
 My heart is safe, the mice in me are men 
 I paint the image of myself so all you bums will never get the chance
 Sometimes I'm scared to be the bearer of the missiles
 Don't think therapy can stop me holding guns to my ambitions
 Even worse, my words could never put you in my mental
 I guess sometimes healing hurts, and pain can really clear your vision
 Grace me with the glimpses, save me from my senses
 If morals fall apart then let me starve from my intention
 Idly, I can be a vessel of retention
 Muster seed situations, moving mountains how I've listened
 Listen, where the hell is quit?
 Cause hell if I know
 Slept three hours on the street to rock a show in Colorado
 The voices that I follow kills the past that I create
 And I meditate to free me of my own selfish ways
 What's the stakes? Cause I refuse to say I can't
 No percentage of me snake cause I'm from Norman, not Durant
 
 Ain't got no time to write a chorus
 I'd still be writing poems if there were no one here to notice
 Ain't got no time to write a chorus
 I'd still be writing poems if there were no one here to notice
 
 Man I feel like DJ Lucas, let me talk my talk
 I represent this city, not the mayor, not the cops
 My nana died, she said she's proud of me
 But honestly, she never saw me blow up
 And that kinda hurts an awful lot
 To be so weary of your whereabouts
 Really makes you narrow all the things you actually care about
 And here and now won't be remembered
 And I can't write a word that's gonna live until forever
 Can you feel it in the moment?
 When you're breathing, can you hold it?
 Ain't got no time to write a chorus
 I'd still be writing poems if there were no one here to notice
 You take the beat away and all you got's a poet
== References ==
* Lincoln Riley was the Oklahoma University football coach from 2017 to 2021. The team had lots of success in his time as coach. Shortly after his departure from Oklahoma, Riley announced he has been hired as head coach at University of Southern California.https://www.dailynews.com/2021/11/30/usc-hires-lincoln-riley-what-it-means-for-the-trojans-and-the-pac-12-hint-its-gargantuan/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Riley
* At concerts, venue workers often mark the hands of underage attendees with X's as a signal to the bartender to not serve them alcohol.https://timeline.com/straight-edge-movement-67544e6f8d88 Straight edge punks began marking their own hands at shows to proclaim their sobriety.https://www.britannica.com/topic/straight-edgehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_edge Shawn is sober and identifies with the straight edge movement.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr5kqHFa9TI [44:55-45:15]
* Of Mice and Men is a famous novel by John Steinbeck.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Mice_and_Men 
* Shawn often tours to Colorado.https://www.instagram.com/p/Cu9fLKFLKuU/?img_index=1
* Durant is a city in southern Oklahoma.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durant,_Oklahoma 
* DJ Lucas is a hip-hop artist from Amherst, Massachusetts.https://djlucas.bandcamp.com/
* Shawn has described himself as an Anarchist.This was said at a show. I don't have any documentation. It's possible that Shawn has posted more about this in the past. Anarchism is critical of the existence of government, including mayors and police.https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anarchism/ 
== Comments by Shawn ==
* "a poem of persistence, power, and presence" - via X, 11/13/23https://twitter.com/sdotreidy/status/1724096034136015017
* “I wrote that song about persistence and the will to continue. Getting yourself up off the ground and the first lines are a reference to an Earl Sweatshirt song where he says ‘Off the pavement/ brush the dirt off my psyche’ and that lyric always spoke to me a lot.” - Norman Transcript, 12/01/23https://www.normantranscript.com/a-e-norman-s-worst-kept-secret/article_d1822b86-8f9d-11ee-8e06-b718249fd39e.html
== Live Performances ==
* 09/08/2023 - Skate the Plaza (Live Debut)https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/s-reidy/2023/plaza-district-okc-oklahoma-city-ok-5ba30750.html
* 09/16/2023 - The Delihttps://www.setlist.fm/setlist/s-reidy/2023/the-deli-norman-ok-73a14ac5.html - Video
* 09/20/2023 - 89th Street Collectivehttps://www.setlist.fm/setlist/s-reidy/2023/89th-street-collective-oklahoma-city-ok-53a30735.html
* 12/21/2023 - Blue Note Lounge
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