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The Mayor's Daughter

from Shipwrecked! by Johnny Mainstream

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i got a picture in my bedroom drawer
and i take it out just once a year
to prove to you i was alive before
i've got a flask inside my pocket
and i'll drink it if i want to
i don't need a hand to make me feel secure

but it's all right, i'm not asking for no faith
just leave me alone, i'll try and do the same
yeah, it's all right, i just like the way you look at me
and god help me if i can't make that change

i've got this song i've sung like fifty times
but i keep slurring every other line
i say that's what keeps me honest when i write
i've got your number in my mobile phone
i don't call you up, i keep you close
for when i drink too much or sober up

but it's all right, i'm not asking for no faith
just leave me alone, i'll try and do the same
yeah, it's all right, i just like the way you keep me up
and god help me if i can't make that change

your lips are a tragedy
a genocide in a cacophony
of a sound that's not quite pure
played by a sad singer in an old hotel
at the piano bench of the ball room bar
it's the only tune he knows
now he awkwardly tries to hit the key
the scent of stale perfume and cheap whiskey
well the sound begins to blur
into a small mistake, it was a small mistake
just a small mistake, that turned a small mistake
into a large mistake, into a catastrophe

and it's all right, i'm not asking for no faith
just leave me alone, i'll try and do the same
yeah it's all right, i just hate the way you look at me
and sorry kid but that ain't ever gonna change

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from Shipwrecked!, released February 5, 2011

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