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Strange Wine

from Like Fries Love Ketchup by Manko

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I wrote this song when I was 19, and had to learn to fingerpick to make it work. I was pestering people at a party for topics to write about, and I got back "vampires," "gazebos," "New Year's Eve" and "hoe agriculture." One of these things didn't make the cut. Harlan Ellison and Anne Rice probably influenced it in some way, but don't blame them.

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Fine, fine holiday time
Ring out the old year with some good friends of mine
Celebrate the birth with revelry divine
Dancing and drinking strange wine
Sing kisses and candles and wine.

Who, who is looking so blue?
Out in the garden, alone in the dew?
Reminds me of a lady from town I once knew
Could she be looking for you?
Sing kisses and candles and wine.

Rare, rare to find a beauty so fair
Standing alone in the chill evening air
When midnight comes I'll be with her out there
To taste how her kisses compare
Sing kisses and candles and wine.

Bliss, bliss, what now is this?
The bell it is tolling, she cannot resist!
She turns with a smile and a sinister hiss
To administer the vampire kiss
Sing kisses and candles and wine.

Free, free, immortal are we
With a thirst for the blood of all humanity
Come, my love, celebrate eternity with me
For the birth and the death in debris
Sing kisses and candles and wine.

No, no it's no one I know
Out in the garden under the gazebo
Looks kinda sad when she hangs her head low
Sing kisses and candles and wine.

Fine, fine holiday time
Ring in the new year with some old friends of mine
Celebrate the death with revelry divine
Dancing and drinking strange wine
Sing kisses and candles and wine.

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

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