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Oh, Marianna!

by The Revenants

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1.
Don't you think I know It doesn't do me any good To hang on to you this way Don't know why I find it so hard To let you go Such an old cliche But before I say my goodbyes Pretty mouth and green my eyes I know seem foolish And, well, downright dumb For thinking there might even be a chance But c'mon I know That there just ain't know way Under no such circumstance We're just too old to fuck around We just got to make the most of it Time to move ourselves right along Time to make toast of it What do I hope to gain What am I thinking The two of us that's not a thing Still I cling by a thin reed To that one slim wish That suddenly we could take wing
2.
How come you gotta complicate matters And make it so hard to get stuff done You set up all sorts of barriers and roadblocks Then wonder why the race can't be run Is it part of the human condition To always procrastinate Wake up early each and every morning So how come you're running late Keep it simple Keep it straight Keep it simple, yeah And you won't be late How come you gotta muck things up Make a mess of a perfect design Don't you know that shortest distance Is a straight and narrow line Do you fear what will happen when its over Do you fear your mortality Do you fear your death and your taxes Sorry but that's reality Come on and keep simple There's no need to fancy it up Come on and keep simple As simple as a paper cup How come you gotta be so self-defeating And never finish what you start Like that novel sitting in the corner You should know it all by heart Why put off till tomorrow and tomorrow What you can do for yourself right now What if there were no tomorrow and tomorrow Are you ready for your final bow
3.
I looked out on the road ahead The longest ride of my life I didn't know if I were alive or dead The longest ride of my life I took my car out on the highway Hadn't driven in years Did not care where I was headed, boy Out beyond the trail of tears I drove out to oblivion The longest ride of my life The sky was as black as obsidian The longest ride of my life Met a stranger on the highway Her lips were full and her hair was blonde I asked her where she was headed to Somewhere 'tween here and the great beyond
4.
WitHow many days do I have left Don't know for sure but it's not a lot I can't be wasting my time With what little time I got I know I'm being foolish I know I'm being dumb Might as curl up in a ball And suck my thumb What I am seeking it can't be found And I am too old, too old to fuck around The clock is a-ticking And time is just flying on by The things that I thought I knew Gone in the blink of an eye Wanna hang on Wanna hold you with all my might But when I open my eyes I see you've taken flight Got get on with it Before I lose yet another day Got to let you go Much to my dismay Once I had all the time in the world At least that's what I thought I fooled around and fell in love A tempest in a teapot I believed had tomorrow But tomorrow has come and gone And all that I got left Is a measly denouement
5.
Long ago and not so far away I met a girl who stole my heart I would do for her any dumb ol’ thing If she’d be Becall to my Bogart I wanted you and you wanted me We thought that we were meant to be Why didn’t make it my Daisy Gaye I wrote it all down and made you this song To show how I got it wrong Why didn’t make it my Daisy Gaye She thought that I was funny And maybe just a little bit nuts That’s ‘cause she drove me out of my mind She told me my approach took more than a little guts I said that’s the way I was designed Some stuff’s best left a fantasy Especially the stuff between you and me We may have wilted like an old bouquet But I still love you my Daisy Gaye My Daisy Gaye, my Daisy Gaye, my sweet Daisy Gaye Long ago and not so far away I met a girl who stole my heart I would do for her any dumb ol’ thing If she’d be Josefine to my Bonaparte
6.
Ideanu Slept 04:40
This is the story of Ideanu Who slept through an atomic bomb Her brother and sister tried to wake her So did her dad and her mom But she was too busy dreaming While the rest of the world wept Ideanu slept Ideanu slept Ideanu dreamt about chocolate mountains And rivers made of classic Coke No one could disturb her Not even with a great big poke The rest of the world suffered losses Losses she could accept Ideanu slept Ideanu slept Ideanu dreamt she was a tiger Running through the jungle wild She attacked everything that moved Even ate a child The waking world had no place for her So away from it she kept Ideanu slept Ideanu slept
7.
When I saw you dancing It made me wanna laugh You bounced around your room Like a rubber-necked giraffe Loved that crazy look on your face And the way you knocked your knees You tromped around in your underwear Moving any which way you please Oh Marianna How I love to watch you dance You seem kind of goofy Even though I don't know you well You make independent movies And I think that they're pretty darn swell You look hip and together You speak in a Scottish brogue You wear your funky sunglasses You could be on the cover of Vogue
8.
Wish that someone would tell me What is normal Don't think I know what normal is no more Normal's not these feelings I have for you My head and my heart In a constant tug of war All I want is a little bit of joy Can't we be just a girl and just a boy Just a girl and just a boy I know we got ourselves A strange dynamic And there ain't no way we can get around it It breaks my heart to know We can't cobble it together No matter how hard we pound it All I want is a little bit of joy Can't we be just a girl and just a boy I will be your Paris and you will be Helen of Troy Just a girl and just a boy I know we don't stand A snowball's chance in hell But I wanna believe that we can beat the odds Not everything's gotta be A tragedy Playing out like some mythical Greek gods
9.
I don't believe you I don't believe you I don't believe you You're a liar Can't believe you don't feel it too
10.
All them colors of the rainbow Are merely shades of gray to me You may think that I'm a downer But it's just the way that I see You can try to cheer me up For all the good that it will do But then you start to get irritated And shout I am through with you Just a little bit of lovin' That's what I need All the fluffy clouds up in the sky They look foreboding to me You see something warm and fuzzy Me I see ugly reality You can try to make me laugh But you won't get very far It's just the way I am built Like some broke down car Just a little bit of lovin' That's my simple creed All the wonders of the world Aren't so wonderful to me They all look rather common They look rather touristy You can get all frustrated And scream, Hey, snap out of it But that will only bring me down When I'm having a bout of it
11.
I don’t wanna I don’t wanna talk about it I don’t wanna talk about these hurtful things Just wanna keep a civil tongue in my mouth, oh yeah Don’t get me Don’t get me started Don’t get me going on all the ways that I’ve been hurt I may blow right up in your face I don’t wanna talk I don’t wanna talk about it Don’t wanna talk about nothing at all Just wanna keep my old mad mouth shut, yeah I don’t wanna talk I don’t wanna talk about it I don’t got nothing I wanna say to you at all No not at all I don’t wanna I don’t wanna hear your lies Don’t wanna hear you twist the truth the sweet way that you do Don’t say I love you Don’t say nothing at all I ain’t gonna I ain’t gonna let you hurt me Ain’t gonna let you hurt me no way no how You don’t get to do that
12.
This is where I belong And where I always will remain This is where I belong I go with the grain I live in a happy place Nothing ever goes wrong, goes wrong My friends are by my side Been here my whole lifelong I never feel too scared I have no reason to be, no reason to be Bad weather passes me by Living under the yum-yum tree And all the sadness of the world Seems so far, far away Like someone else's bad dream It does not hold me in its sway

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Long ago and not so far away
I met a girl who stole my heart
I would do for her any dumb ol’ thing
If she’d be Becall to my Bogart

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released January 27, 2024

Cover: Marianna Palka
www.instagram.com/mariannapalka

Songs written and performed by Eliot Wilder

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