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from Me for a day by Mermaid Guitar

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Although this is the opening track to the 'Me for a day' album, it came along quite late in the piece. The chords had been swimming around my mind for a while and, once the idea for the album's concept came in to being, I wrote the words kind of ad-lib, strumming, sitting in the sunshine on a lazy summer morning.

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_LYRICS_

You're talking to me, feels like it is yesterday
As your lips move no sound comes forth
Though it seems I know what you are saying
I'm not really listening - I just drift away

It must be a nice day I dimly comprehend
The redness on the inside of my eyelids
tells me this, as a bellbird's song ends
Cut off by my alarm clock and the shouts of next door's kids

So it all comes rushing in, the things, the thoughts, the din
what I'm doing, where I'm going, today
But I'll put this off some more
That's what the snooze button's for
I want just 5 minutes more

-<( ...is anything as good as this?... )>-

Slowly drifting back
1/2 awake, 1/2 asleep - bliss
The warmth of your breath, your face is so close to mine
As I lean in to kiss

And suddenly your face has changed,
you're the weatherman predicting rain
And the kiss is lost once again
Next door's back door's slamming shut
Across the street a Honda's revving but
I want just 5 minutes more

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from Me for a day, released January 7, 2011
Written, performed, produced by R K A White, 2005(ish)

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Mermaid Guitar New Zealand

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Mermaid Guitar music is not earnest navel-gazing. It's indie rock with humour and hidden depths.

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