Another old fave from "Like Fries Love Ketchup" - I must've written this in '93. It all happened pretty much exactly as described, and also became the third verse in "Just Friends." I think this one includes some of my most painfully personal lyrics, but also some of my most carefully crafted - this is how bards deal with the things they hate most about their lives: they try to craft them into something beautiful.
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lyrics
Believing the evening held nothing more than came before
I shuffled through the door
Discovered another, adrift and drowning, going down
Two loners, lost, and found.
And I thought I saw seasons in her eyes
And I felt all the roses start to rise
I was well on my way to some new heaven
A familiar feeling: falling alone again.
She noticed the roses, and then again the paper crane
And in the rain, I I I
I stuttered and stammered, so damn enamored of her smile
Falling all the while.
The most beautiful blemish on her cheek
Made me feel just a little less a freak
I was well on my way to some new heaven
Before I started stalling - falling alone again.
Whenever this clever boy is thunderstruck by someone new
He'll think of you, and how
He'll measure his pleasure by its proximity to pain
And I'll blow it all again.
Will I see all the seasons in her eyes?
Will I find myself tempted once more to try?
I'll be well on my way to some new heaven
A familiar feeling: falling alone again.
credits
released August 27, 2012
All words, music, performance by Manko Eponymous.
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