“Unshakable” is the next single from Tom McGuire & the Brassholes, the most audacious cut from the band yet. A song of affirmation, of self belief and positive self-regard amidst a culture that relentlessly encourages self doubt. In a world which encourages us to beat ourselves up and speak to ourselves in the harshest terms, this is a rallying call to shift that voice inside . A chanted mantra, enclosed in an irresistible dance-funk groove, insisting that “you are rad as fuck and you do cool shit” and urging the listener to have “unshakable faith in your own radness”.
When I was the son of a bitch machine
I knew not what giving a fuck means.
I was young and fresh and free and keen,
I was unshakable.
The war against giving a fuck was the hardest i’ve ever one.
I won’t let nobody make it come undone.
No-one, NO-ONE.
I am unshakable.
I am rad as fuck and I do cool shit
I am rad as fuck and I do cool shit
Don’t let them get you.
You are rad as fuck and you do cool shit
You are rad as fuck and you do cool shit
You won’t let them get you, you’ll never let them get you
if you have
Unshakable faith in your own radness
Unshakable faith in your own awesomeness
Unshakable faith in your own radness
I won’t care about apathy.
Shaking loose of these vines on me.
Radness in and of itself it breeds,
so be unshakable, unshakable.
Compare yourself and live in hell.
Everyone is shite compared to someone else.
Consider yourself RAD, you might as well,
and be unshakable, unshakable.
I am rad as fuck and I do cool shit
I am rad as fuck and I do cool shit
Don’t let them get you.
You are rad as fuck and you do cool shit
You are rad as fuck and you do cool shit
You won’t let them get you, you’ll never let them get you
If you have
Unshakable faith in your own radness
Unshakable faith in you own awesomeness
Unshakable faith in your own radness
I’ll never let you shake me down, I will not allow.
No! I don’t give a fuck no more,
No! I don’t give a fuck no more,
No!
The radness will overcome the doubt.
No! I don’t give a fuck no more,
No! I don’t give a fuck no more,
No!
But it can only be unshakable, if you describe it so.
There will be times when this ridiculous and duplicitous world will assail you with a tale of sabotage. When it tries to break your belief and convince you that you are not Rad. When the weight of the inexorable decay of hope threatens to crush down upon you, in those troubled moments, I tell you there is but one action to take, one alone…
You must stand firm, raise your head and pronounce with a furious and unshakable belief in the truth of the words you speak:
“Fuck you, World! I am rad as fuck and I do cool shit!”
Engender the truth of your own blistering radness, NOW, and beat back that foul decay, for both like wildfire self-cultivate. Sow the right seed: the seed of Rad.
In an unstoppable eruption of trust and endlessly flourishing Mojo, the decay: vanquished. Stride forth into the world, bolstered by a new and unshakable faith in your own radness!
Unshakable faith in your own radness
Unshakable faith in your own awesomeness
Unshakable faith in your own radness
I am rad as fuck and I do cool shit
I am rad as fuck and I do cool shit
Don’t let them get you.
You are rad as fuck and you do cool shit
You are rad as fuck and you do cool shit
You won’t let them get you, you’ll never let them get you
You got ta be
Unshakable. Unshakable. Unshakable. Unshakable.
credits
released January 19, 2023
Written by Tom McGuire
Horns arranged by Michael Butcher.
