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Still Standing — Real Money
A Crypode Anthem
Fahad Founder of Crypode.com4 min read·Just now--
How one Gulf professional turned financial pressure into music — and why it might be the most honest song about money you have ever heard
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that does not show on the outside.
It is the exhaustion of the man who wakes before Fajr, checks his bank balance, watches half his salary disappear into loan repayments before breakfast, and then gets dressed, drives to work, and tells everyone he is fine.
It is the exhaustion of the Gulf professional — the father, the sole provider, the one everyone depends on — who has been carrying an invisible weight for so long that carrying it has simply become who he is.
Still Standing is a song written for that man. And it was written by that man.
The Story Behind the Song
The artist behind Crypode is not a musician by training. He is a Technical Services Supervisor with over twenty years in Gulf aviation. He is a father of six. He is a devout Muslim who prays five times…
