Track 02
Mixing my metaphors
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Mixing my metaphors
A lyric from the Bahrain stopover - another one of those unrequited love things that pops up every so often. I had some sense of the the tune at the time, but the jug-band influence came when I got home.
words and music by Martin Stirrup 2003
Mixing my metaphors
E A E
Mixing my metaphors, riddling my rhymes
A E F#7 B Bb A Ab
Tongue tied, refried, too many times
E F#m C#m B A
Syncopated semaphore when I try to dance
A E B7 E
Two sweet left feet give me no chance
B7 E
I might be trying to fly a kite
A E F# B7
But I still got you in my sights anyway
Jiggling my jelly beans, juggling the juice
Its hot but what have I got to lose
Talking to never-beens, wasting my words
I don’t , I won’t do things by thirds
Ever since you passed and flashed that smile
I’ve known I’ll get you in a little while
A E
But while I’m working on my master plan
F# B7
You simply don’t know who I am