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Doug Davis - Sirens

from Round 1, Week 4 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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When given the assignment for the week, Sophie asked me to write a song about mermaids. I can't wait to play her this cheerful tune about about an aging, narcissistic barfly and the men who love her.

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She said "I'm half on land and all at sea
There's not a damn thing left of me
You just go on and do your thing
And try not to treat me like a child."

I watched her sign the paperwork
Cash the checks and tip the clerk
She said, "well he always promised
He was gonna buy me something nice"

and we'll go dancing down the shore
those boys she loved don't dance no more

no more tears, a trace of salt
and when she says it's all her fault
well I don't know I could tell her true
that it ain't entirely so

he was a sucker and a gentle guy
never saw her look him in the eye
he was just the last in a long sad line
he drowned himself in drink

we'll go dancing down the shore
I wonder how she's keeping score

All my people drowning alone
Close your eyes and sink like a stone
You can't silence
Sirens on the telephone

all my life, I've steered a course
plotted charts by will and force
by the time of my third divorce
you could say I'm easy prey

you oughta seen her when she was young
an angel's face, a devil's tongue
and no man stood a chance among
the ones who danced too close

and we'll go dancing down the shore
down by the boarded-up liquor store

All my people drowning alone
Close your eyes and sink like a stone
You can't silence
Sirens on the telephone

I was worried she would lose her boys
She called her sisters just to her their voice
They had a band they called the Dealer's Choice
They used to play down at the shore

She disappeared for a week or two
I found myself without a clue
Why I cared so much for one who
Regarded me as a mark

and we'll go dancing down the shore
god help me, I've been accounted for

All my people drowning alone
Close your eyes and sink like a stone
You can't silence
Sirens on the telephone

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from Round 1, Week 4, released January 27, 2014

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