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The Liquor Talking

from The Overflow by Humphreys & Keen

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Graeme Humphreys here.
This is the only instance where Peter has given a completed set of lyrics and I have had to come up with the music. The very end cuts to mono (try it on headphones and you'll get the picture) as a salute to Craig Mason, the finest drummer in New Zealand (at least) whom we often cite as the best thing since Ringo, so it's for Ringo too. ref:-"Boys" by the Beatles, the one Ringo sang.

lyrics

I'm living with my bags packed, living on borrowed time.
Friends call me a sad sack since you said you weren't mine.

And I've had quite enought of this city.
And the jokes worn out my jacket and I freeze.
And I'm asking you, Sweet Lord, why is the joke on me?

I've got some small change in my pocket,
and a bottle in the car.
Sometimes a man relies on things he knows won't get him far.
But when a friend becomes a stranger then it's plain to all but me,
why you won't reconsider, Lord, why is the joke on me?

And if I said I wasn't hurting,
I'd be lying.
If I came back tomorrow, the end I plainly see.
And I realise that nothing comes in this world without trying.
Well I tried
And now I find
My best
Was not the best it seemed.

Perhaps I phone you up, phone you some way down the line.
But it's the fourth room in a week and I am not sure that it's mine.
By the time this bottles over and before the day is done,
I'm on my knees, I'm praying, Lord, am I the only one?

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from The Overflow, released February 20, 2006
Humphreys/Keen

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Humphreys & Keen Auckland

Graeme Humphreys & Peter Keen were the primary songwriting partnership of the critically acclaimed Able Tasmans, an NZ band in the Flying Nun stable that produced 4 albums & one EP.

Named from the A B Paterson character Clancy of the Overflow, the ideas are drawn from many sources; Australian outback poetry; magic realism; a train between Bologna & Firenze; & our dark little rainy island. ... more

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