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Words and music by Logan Allison
*This track features some language inspired by 1950s lingo. Implied meanings are as follows:
Clanked: Rejected
Sprout: Reference to 1998 adventure game Grim Fandango. Bullets that plant seeds into bone which bloom into flowers, killing the host.
Jets: Brains or smarts. Common sense
Got bent: Historically used as an insult, "drop dead," it's meant here as "died" or "lost myself."
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You know the first time, it was the city
Caught my attention with a reflection of me
I see a cool cat looking through the glass
And I want to be him, but I'm not
And I couldn't, I couldn't explain
How I felt so cool, and so clanked* the same
But it shot me with a sprout*
And it's growing in my brain, get it out!
Cus all I had to do was sign the dotted line
And every little thing would work out just fine
I guess I really should have read the bottom line
Cus now I need something to call mine!
You know the second time, it was the new start
She patched up my heart, what a dame, what a doll, what a pal
Thoughts runnin' through my cranium had me glowin' like uranium
Boy, she had me on cloud nine, at least most of the time
Rockin' out to Rockabilly music, would'a been a better time to choose it
These days it don't matter none, cus it's all been said and done
The Skybus flew us on, we stood in rows and sang our songs
We did our very best and then we flew right back home again
Cus all I had to do was sign the dotted line
And every little thing would work out just fine
I guess I really should have read the bottom line
Cus now I need something to call mine!
You know the third time, it was the freedom
Lookin' for something that I'll admit's a "someone"
I'm thinkin' that I should'a just cut out, but my jets* had just shut down
And so I got bent* again, oh!
And I sold my soul
Became a third of a face, and wouldn't walk away
Did I think that's cool?
Walkin' off without my head, and actin' like a fool.
Cus all I had to do was sign the dotted line
And every little thing would work out just fine
I guess I really should have read the bottom line
I think I need another try
The last bus to Chicago brought me so much pain
Not just because of what it brought me back to
But how it took me away
I'm going back! (He's going back!)
We're going back some day!
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