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Go Fish

from Like Fries Love Ketchup by Manko

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Partly inspired by snappy dialogue from old radio serials.

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I'd much rather deserve you than have you
And maybe that's our destiny
And here's where you say some insipid cliche
About "so many fish in the sea"
But if I walked off that pier tonight
Would there be the slightest splash?
Or have I already fallen so far and so fast
Into your bottomless past?

Oh my darling I felt like a starling
Caught in your badminton game
Thrashing about between passion and doubt
'Til I could not recall my own name
But you were perfect and free and so wrong for me
With a hunger I could not resist
So ask me again for what I never had
And again I'll reply: Go Fish.

And when you're forty, will your husband grin
When he stumbles upon all those poems you kept
And wonders who I might've been
And me, I'll have other little fish to fry
And that's not me being sly, it's not even a lie
I trust you must know this is just goodbye

For I'd much rather deserve you than have you
And maybe that's how it should be
And here's where you say some insipid cliche
About "so many fish in the sea" - but I found a fish
Who was perfect and free and so wrong about me
That it pains me to end it like this
So ask me again for what I never had
And again I'll reply: Go Fish.

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from Like Fries Love Ketchup, released October 1, 2002
It's all Manko.

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