Stayin' Human by B.R. Mount

Stayin’ Human is willingly making a fool of yourself in front of your close friends.
Stayin’ Human is willingly making a fool of yourself in front of strangers.
Stayin’ Human is feeling the pain of hitting your head on the corner of the coffee table.
Stayin’ Human is taking the hour and half bus ride across town to see your partner every week.
Stayin’ Human is losing your temper when you cut down a christmas tree and strap it to the roof of your car so poorly it folds in half on the way home.
Stayin' Human is laughing about it the next day.
Stayin’ Human is picking up your dog’s diarrhea.
Stayin’ Human is taking pride in the work you do, whether it's for a salary or for your own sanity.
Stayin’ Human is learning to grieve the loss of a good friend.
Stayin’ Human is ordering a pizza and the delivery guy shows up as you’re hugging each other and crying around his now cold, still body.
Stayin’ Human is laughing about it together through your tears.
Stayin’ Human is learning as you go and living with the mistakes made along the way.
Stayin’ Human is needing to cancel your plans and stay home and eat fast food in front of the TV instead.
Stayin’ Human is making bad art, until eventually, just maybe, it becomes good art.
Stayin’ Human is watching your favorite team lose...again, but still getting excited to watch their next game.
Stayin’ Human is sharing your story and listening to others share theirs.
Stayin’ Human is feeling stuck but continuing forward.
Stayin' Human is chasing your dreams, even if they're so faint you hardly remember them.
Stayin’ Human is searching through the junk drawer, because you swore you had a D battery that you took out of the package a year or so ago but never used.
Stayin’ Human is loving deeper as you get older.
Stayin’ Human is appreciating where you came from.
Stayin’ Human is being a part of a community.
Stayin’ Human is sticking to your word, even when…No…especially when it’s difficult to do so.
Stayin’ Human is being bored and being okay with it.
Stayin’ Human is letting your mind wander and missing the teacher's instructions.
Stayin’ Human is a shoebox full of notes from your grade school crush.
Stayin’ Human is building garden beds and getting more veggies than you can keep up with that first year.
Stayin’ Human is, by the third year, you’ve let the soil fade so you’ll take what you can get.
Stayin’ Human is not knowing all the answers, not even close.
Stayin’ Human is going to a protest wearing a blow up animal costume.
Stayin’ Human is forming traditions around the changes in seasons.
Stayin’ Human is losing track of time on a task you didn't expect to be doing.
Stayin’ Human is finding yourself in a group text that updates you on where and when different pickup basketball games are happening around the city.
Stayin’ Human is feeling a deep sadness at the cruelty and suffering of your fellow humans.
Stayin’ Human is riding a Shetland pony bareback in a rodeo at the age of nine.
Stayin’ Human is winning a rodeo at the age of nine but never fully understanding why, and never competing in a rodeo again.
Stayin’ Human is wearing cowhide chaps your granny made for you by hand.
Stayin’ Human is not remembering your memories correctly.
Stayin’ Human is enjoying nothing more than having no plans with the person you love.
Stayin’ Human is finally going on that adventure you’ve talked about for years.
Stayin’ Human is listening to the birds converse over the sound of traffic.
Stayin’ Human is learning to let yourself cry again.
Stayin’ Human is trauma bonding with your friends and coworkers.
Stayin' Human is looking in the mirror and accepting every part of yourself, so you can accept the identity of others as well.
Stayin' Human is constantly being disappointed by the news headlines, but holding out hope for better days ahead.
Stayin’ Human is noticing a typo after you’ve proofread your work many times over and hit publish.
Stayin’ Human is not knowing what to do for dinner.
Stayin’ Human is defining for yourself what it means to be human.
What does it mean to you to Stay Human?

If you're looking for music that chases trends or caters to the algorithm, look elsewhere. B.R. Mount creates music that is innately human and as honest as a hard day's work. It might not be for everyone, but it might be for you.