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someone else's turn to be me

from see thru songs by The Penguin Party

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From the album See Thru Songs
Available on CD from www.sittingtarget.net

lyrics

the girl with the backpack jumps wide-eyed from the train
like she's learning parachuting in a burning plane
and she runs all the way
from the station to the bar
downs a quick budvar
and picks up a guitar
she days she likes a little panic, says it gives her an edge
makes her little stage feel like a window ledge

she says "it's someone else's turn to be me
cos there are lots of other people who I'd really like to be
and while I'm being someone with a bit more clout
someone else can haul my baggage about
because it's someone else's turn to be me"


the man with the glass eyes looks through windows all day
if you ask him what he does he doesn't know what to say
then he runs to the gym and he runs off the flab
then runs down to the bar and he runs up a tab

and thinks "it's someone else's turn to be me
cos there are lots of other places that i'd really ike to see
and while i'm seeing something that i've never seen
someone else can glare at this miserable screen
because it's someone else's turn to be me"

six months later they meet
in the same london street
on her way to the gym
she runs square into him
as they get up from the floor
he feels he's seen her before
comes and watches her play
and finds he knows what to say
and so they talk about plans
and they leave holding hands
she moves into his flat
and for two decades that's that
he says "i once was a mug
but now i'm a cup
and you are the saucer
that's holding me up"

they're doing just what they did
with an additional kid

who thinks "it's someone else's turn to be me
cos there are lots of other places that i'd really like to be
and while i'm living it up where it's all going down
someone else can fester in this tedious town
because it's someone else's turn to be me"

credits

from see thru songs, track released October 10, 2009
Written by Dave Milligan
All instruments and vocals by Dave Milligan
except
Bass - Gareth Hall
Moog and Hammond - Tudor Davies

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