recorded in 2011 in a kitchen in boston (except the drums recorded in ky shortly after). you can hear my housemate moving dishes around in the background at the end.
this song is about best friends, different strokes for different folks, trying to be someone you're not, and how good I am at dancing. also, i wanted to make a song with an analogy. it's not a great analogy. sorry guys. sorry SAT.
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I made deals with devils
and the owl took up my case
and i put up walls and then he put me in my place
and he said "i know you want to fuck and run
but im a lion and youre a cat
and we both know you just wasnt built like that"
one year later by the kitchen sink
i told him "you wasn't neither
you been runnin round town like you done caught the fever"
"because it takes two to tango
oh and it takes two to waltz
but threes too many and now we all seen your faults."
its a poor mans kind of alchemy
that keeps me satisfied
cause i read the all papers and they all gone and said you lied.
because if dancing is to making love
as what i am to being in charge,
then fathers hide your daughters cause i'm a ladykiller and i'm armed.
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