Alex Gardner is a God.

I have two equally important parts to this post, and I hope you focus on both. Most apparent is the video directly below. It is of my good friend Alex, playing one of his many incredible songs, at our show last weekend. Easier to miss are the song lyrics found beneath the video. I really encourage you to read the lyrics both with and without the song playing. I am in awe of this man, and I hope you'll join me.

Well the gold plated lyre on which David did play

on a sunny hill where the gods sat and drank their time away

Well I don't really care about the luxuries of the obscenely rich

it was all fair and square so why should I care

And if you're keeping a tally that's the third dream this week

in which I met you on a stage and kissed you on the check

And the crowds that you drew and you appeased them with all of your tears

they had to applaud but now you're a fraud

But still you are that one in my dreams

and no matter how hard we try to believe it was someone else

it's to lie to ourselves

Well the Pharaoh was a brave man he was steadfast and wise

he rounded up all his children and then he gouged out their eyes

And when the invaders came at morning, his children they could not see

him beat to the ground but they heard the sound

But still you are that one in my dreams

and no matter how hard we try to believe it was someone else

it's to lie to ourselves