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Book: Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
Hymn 07 · Album III
Read the complete lyrics to “Bar Bending” by Josh Chakka from Total Recall, a Hymns for Entrepreneurs album about Arnold Schwarzenegger. Listen to the song.
Part of the songbook
Bar Bending is one chapter in Total Recall, a musical interpretation centered on Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Track 07 / 13

Book: Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
Lyric sheet
Original lyric sheet / Track 07
From the original lyric sheet for Total Recall. Wording may differ slightly from the released recording.
This ain't a gym, it's a confession booth... The sermons are silent, the prayers are in the proof. In this cathedral of chalk where the saints are all stoic The only hymns are heavy breaths, poetically heroic I'm chasin' apparitions, repetitions of a vision Making surgical incisions on a sub-par disposition It's molecular warfare, cellular collision A holy trinity of sinew, static, and submission To the gravity... a fallacy I'm gladly dismantlin' On a solitary mission, a champion they're channelin' Franco's in the corner, a brother in the alchemy He sees the madness manifestin', what's the final outcome be? We turnin' iron into armor, turnin' fables into fact This ain't a hobby, it's a covenant, a suicidal pact If the bar ain't bendin', then you're just pretendin' You're just pretendin', yeah, you're just pretendin' If the bar ain't bendin', then you're just pretendin' Gotta break it all down for a perfect endin' They think it's all bravado, the arrogance of mass They never see the doubt I gotta dominate and then surpass The lonely hours in the dungeon when the psyche's on the rack Wrestlin' with the whisper tellin' you to turn it back But that echo of my father's voice, that ghost inside the gears Is the metronome that's countin' down the failure that he fears So I go deeper in the séance, the ceremony's set A thousand pounds of penance for a past I can't forget If the bar ain't bendin', then you're just pretendin' You're just pretendin', yeah, you're just pretendin' If the bar ain't bendin', then you're just pretendin' Gotta break it all down for a perfect endin' If the bar ain't bendin', then you're just pretendin' You're just pretendin', yeah, you're just pretendin' If the bar ain't bendin', then you're just pretendin' Gotta break it all down
Lyrics © Josh Chakka.