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Goodbye
04:08
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Goodbye (Dargan)
This could take some time to process
Backwards go the hands of progress now
They gave it to you on a platter
Not that truth would seem to matter now
Things got bad and things got worse
Oh, how to make you say goodbye?
The Mount Ranier of shame and folly
Following your bald Svengali clown
Overreaching arrogance
Coupled with incompetence profound
(All the way down)
Things got bad and things got worse
Still you had no plans to say goodbye
Leaders lie, that’s understood, but you went ‘round the bend
Smashed this country we all love into pieces that won’t mend
Mission accomplished, baby; freedom is on the march
I thought you’d never say goodbye…
(c) 2010 Slightly Charred Music
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Little Miss Sunshine
03:07
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Little Miss Sunshine (Dargan)
Little Miss Sunshine has rust on her wheels
A short in her wires; do you know how she feels?
She's rough in the morning till her coffee is made
But hardly beginning to fade
And if you could have seen her
All those years ago...
Little Miss Sun-Shiiiiiiiiiiiiine
How do you know when you've finally found
The one that you've searched for for years?
What can you show to the rest of the crowd
But the way that she brakes and she steers?
And the lengths to which she will go
Are taller than her gears, oh...
Little Miss Sun-Shiiiiiiiiiiiiine
Nothing lasts forever, but we can choose to stay
And if we're feeling clever we can drive away together
Drive away together, drive away...
(c) 2010 Slightly Charred Music
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Ballad of Alberto Gonzales (Dargan)
You sold me out
True beyond a doubt
I always stood beside you
Firm, legal hand to guide you
(You don’t have to shout)
I don’t recall
Much, if at all
I’d answer all their questions
They’ve got so many questions
I don’t recall
I’m not saying laws were not obeyed
I don’t think the jury would be swayed
I’m just saying that mistakes were made
How could I know
How this would go?
John Ashcroft did the hiring
Kyle Sampson did the firing
(more a brother than a lawyer now)
I shoveled snow
I don’t like the way that I’m portrayed
Stop calling this a grand crusade
I’m just saying that mistakes were made
Things fall apart
Doomed from the start
One speech in the Rose Garden
One pending, blanket pardon
(just another casualty of war)
No bleeding hearts
Suddenly my welcome’s overstayed
Hard not to feel a bit betrayed
I’m just saying that mistakes were made
You sold me out!
(c) 2010 Slightly Charred Music
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Green
02:33
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Green (Dargan)
We were standing in the kitchen
She seemed so kind to me
Then you walked in and took her far away
Left me feeling green...
You were barely there three minutes
I'd been waiting for three hours
I was almost ready to make my move
Is she going home with you?
green, green, I am feeling green
green, green, green
I was always shy at parties
She was never on her own
I kept looking for a chance to say hello
She was always on the phone...
(c) 2010 Slightly Charred Music
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If I Were Smart
03:21
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If I Were Smart (Dargan)
If I were smart I would kiss you on the cheek
Catch myself a Greyhound, ride it for a week
I would love to learn to love some time apart... If only I were smart
If I were smart I would point my car down South
Leave my stuff in storage, learn to shut my mouth
I would make myself make a brand-new start
If only I were smart
Walk right out that door
I won't fight anymore
No more nights like before
and no more broken hearts
If only I were smart
If I were smart I would turn around this moment
Find a worthier opponent, Leave the battle while I can
If I were smart I would shoot for better aim
I would turn around again, till I could craft a better plan
I could see the time has come for us to part
Try to find a way to make the ending start
If only I were smart
If I were smart
I would walk right out that door
(c) 2010 Slightly Charred Music
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Someday I Might Learn
03:35
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Someday I Might Learn (Dargan)
Your late night, overnight visitor's free pass
Begets well shorn, early morning pizza
Just say the word and I will stay, usher in this holiday
You draw the map and I'll pull around to meet ya
One for me, two for you, I don't know just what to do
Hard to start a campfire when the kindling will not burn
Three that you've waited for sits outside your bedroom door
Someday you might tell me, and someday I might learn
I watch you drop your tiny hints as April moonlight gently glints
Off the buckles of the straps that would hold my self-control
You lift your hand to seize the day, find your keys but lose your way
Gasp for one last thing to say, then take off on a roll
This golden opportunity is never to return
You fired a spark but it missed, it's your neck I should have kissed
And your eyes say "stupid boy, what are you waiting for?"
And now my hands are stuck, like my wheels and like my luck
I'm still sleeping in my truck and you are halfway out the door
The game is nearly over, I'm still waiting for my turn
When you Sing like Billie Holiday and look like Laura Dern
(c) 2010 Slightly Charred Music
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I Scare So Easily
02:49
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I Scare So Easily (Dargan)
I scare so easily, you know it's true
I scare so easily, compared to you
My hearing isn't quite as keen
As what it was at seventeen
And sometimes when you walk behind me,
I don't hear you walk behind me
I didn't hear you...
I trip so frequently and I fall hard
I respond to gravity with no regard
My nancy little ankles are
About as strong as caviar
But I'm still playing basketball
Watch me while I trip and fall
Watch me while I...
Tugging cables that entwined me
Oh baby, don't remind me
Ooh, ooh, I'm sure fun at parties!
(c) 2010 Slightly Charred Music
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Margaret
03:51
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Margaret (Dargan)
Margaret is reaching for the glasses on my face
Now she’s got ‘em and I can’t see a thing
Margaret is growing at a truly awesome pace
And she loves her little ladybug on a string
This happy baby is ready for the day
I’m hoping maybe she might let us sleep in a little longer
Wait and see… (then she smiles at me!)
Margaret is waiting for her plane to make the gate
She’s heading down South to try and dodge the snow
Margaret is thinking that the storm might make us late
But she’s feeling fine and she’s chewing on her toes
This tired baby, not interested in sleep
Is hoping maybe we might let her stay up a little longer…
(c) 2010 Slightly Charred Music
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Another Little Flutter (Of Yer Tiny Heart) (Dargan)
I've been looking for you, baby
For what feels like fifty years
And lately thinking, "maybe
There is nothing here for me but tears"
But today's a whole lot brighter
And I'm off to a brand new start
There's some Nick Lowe playing on the radio
And another little flutter of your tiny heart
It was worse than I'd imagined
Lord, it left a nasty mark
So I cross my fingers, close my eyes
And take another long-shot shot in the dark
Now I see that you are in there
And you're ready to play your part
All my doubts are dropping like a domino
With another little flutter of your tiny heart
Another little flutter
A telegram from someone new
I'm peering through the clutter
And trying not to misconstrue
Another little flutter
Like a bolt out of the blue
It's like opening the shudders
Of a brand new house with a lakefront view
The image is kind of hazy
But the likeness absolute
One fresh gerbera daisy
With a ginger ale, in your birthday suit
So I hear you're headed out here
Like I dreamed of from the start
With a soft, warm glow on the video
A mystery show they will never know
It's a subtle smashing of the status quo
With another little flutter of your tiny, little heart
(c) 2010 Slightly Charred Music
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Boomerang
03:33
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Boomerang (Dargan)
You told me goodbye from the wheel of your new, blue Impala
Guess I never could provide the things that you need
You yelled "stand aside" out the window as you threw my plush koala
With screeching tires in a brash display of speed
But what if that flame abated?
Your ride abbreviated?
Your heart decelerated to a halt?
I bet you're...
Coming back (coming back)
Coming back (coming back)
Like a boomerang!
The Bridge On The River Kwai
Was showing down at the cinema drafthouse
I sat in the back with a some soup and an Nut Brown Ale
She had a row of Mai Tais,
Knee-high boots and checkered silk blouse
I got caught in the snare of her ponytail
My soul is resuscitated,
My will inebriated,
My fears expatriated to the floor
I think I'm...
Coming back (coming back)
Coming back (coming back)
Like a boomerang!
So if you show up postdated,
And I seem irritated,
I have circumnavigated you for good...
(c) 2010 Slightly Charred Music
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Hey Joe Biden!
03:02
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Hey Joe Biden! (Dargan)
You should try not to talk so much
You're so much better when you're understated
It's not as if you're out of touch
36 years -- it's clear you're dedicated
You've got the backs of the citizens of Delaware
But you talk too much, and of that fact they're well aware
It's time to take a verbal holiday (ayyyyyyy….)
You saved the world from a Justice Bork (we all agree)
If only you had faired as well with Clarence T.
A civil rights absurdiity, a social justice tragedy
I guess it's time to give the game away (ayyyyyyy….)
Hey Joe Biden, Hey!
(c) 2010 Slightly Charred Music
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Quarter Turn Twist of the Wrist (Dargan)
Friday races were never drearier
Typical victors preordained
Up to the line on your Brough Superior
Goggles fogged in a soft, Sping rain
Roll my Bonneville up to the line
(tickle the carbs to a steady flow)
Top Dead Center and give it a kick
(a fine, full chat and away we go!)
Roll on the throttle (there's no key)
Louder now than an XJE
On the right side....
Let's go for a ride
Down in your valley and up the other side
It's a slow kiss
On a night like this
You get a half a mile further from a quarter turn twist of the wrist
A little more nimble, a little more sleek
(never gonna stop till you get one)
Stomp your Guzzi any day of the week
(never gonna stop till you get one)
Wind-swept Norton (starting to drift)
Pushing the red-line, waiting to shift
On the right side...
Pour my life (from a petrol can)
Half way home to the Isle of Man
(c) 2010 Slightly Charred Music
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13. |
Three States Down
04:20
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Three States Down
A day and a half through the driving snow
A thermos of hope in the morning glow
A nine-hour drive for a meal and a show
Three states down…
Three states down…
Three states down and ten states to go
No antenna means no radio
The window is stuck and it’s four below
On through the night, LaCrosse up to Fargo
Three states down…
Three states down…
Three states down and ten states to go
Back in the van to drive in the dark
Eat where you can, sleep where you park
Your favorite map still clings to life with packing tape
24 hours you’ll never forget
Coffee, a smoke and the daily gazette
In a town you’ve never seen before
Now you’re planning your escape…
(c) 2010 Slightly Charred Music
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Sean Michael Dargan Madison, Wisconsin
Sean Michael Dargan is almost too tall, standing six feet, four inches in his favorite black-and-white saddle shoes. On a good day he writes and plays pop rock in the vein of Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Aimee Mann, and the Gin Blossoms. Guitar and voice are his main instruments, but if you’re not nice he’ll go get out his bagpipes. ... more
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