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South Koree

from Lonesome for Handsome by Mike Behrends

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    This is a shrink-wrapped compact disc like the ones you probably used to buy at Sam Goody or On Cue as a kid. The cover photo was taken by me and the rest was layed out by Eric Drommerhausen.

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Behrends—guitar, piano, singing
Smith—singing
Owens—additional piano, synthesizer

lyrics

you can call it a change
call it what you will
just don't call it strange
my elbows on the sill
i sat and looked out
lonesome for handsome still

then i thought about you
till i forgot about you
now i'm thinking of you
and your shiny red shoes
and how you can slide them on
and walk across that ocean blue

because all my time is spent on the west now
and all my time is spent on the west now

i was all strung out
with a map at my feet
i was fixing to make
a big move to South Koree
i bought a motorbike
with a sidecar for my bride-to-be

then i lost half of what i own
in an ugly game of cards
i won half of that back
now a quarter of it's ours
for such a skinny thing
she can sure hold a lot
inside her arms

because all my time is spent on the west now
and all my time is spent on the west now

there's a lonely bird outside the window
he don't sing but he talks to much
and it sounds like weeping
Sarah's not sleeping
and it's probably keeping her up

so we'll shout all night that we're free
and we'll shout it loud, "we are in love!"
because as a friend once sang,
"when you're young and you're free
you can live however you want"

because all my time is spent on the west now
and all my time is spent on the west now
because all my time is spent thinking of weddings now
and all my time is spent on the west now.

credits

from Lonesome for Handsome, released June 22, 2012
("when you're young and you're free, you can live however you want" is a lyric pulled from Fever in the Ox's song "The Immigrant & the Tornado", written by Matt Wulff.)

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folk-country from the north country.

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