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On Your Birthday

from Misadventures in Stereo by Jim Boggia

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I found a photograph.
The only one I have.
Can almost hear you laughing
on your birthday.

'Cause that was you and me,
back in '92 or 3.
Underneath the Marquee
on your birthday.

Seems so long ago,
but I still recall that show
and how you sang
loud as the band.

Someone took our picture.
We had one too many drinks.
Then we were walking back to your house
hand-in-hand.

With flowers in your hair,
I led you up the stairs.
And all your friends were there
on your birthday.

Dandelion wine
under incandescent light.
And everyone's invited
on your birthday.

I waited for a year,
and I wasted some tears,
imagining you'd
come back again.

But one day you wake up
and you're over the breakup.
But I find myself remembering
now and then.

We had elaborate plans
but short attention spans
and too many Black and Tans
back in those days.

Our once and future past -
it ended all too fast.
And nothing seems to last
except for birthdays.

Are you going out
on your birthday?

Will you think about me
on your birthday?

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from Misadventures in Stereo, released August 5, 2008
Who's making that racket?

Flicker wound up playing the three non-tuba brass parts on baritone horn because, really, at the point the french horn player asked "you don't really expect me to play that in time with the guitar, do you?" the reply "well, yes, that is, actually, EXACTLY what the expectation was" wasn't really going to accomplish anything anyway. Mike Frank will deny that he helped me in writing the horn arrangement in any way other than transcribing the notes, but we all know better. Jesse Honig lent me his shoes, because my Chuck Taylors didn't sound right. Dan Nosheny demonstrated why he is known universally as Tuba Dan. He also played tuba. I sang, played an acoustic guitar, a second acoustic guitar (which I played IN TIME with the first one, shattering all expectations) and tapped both feet in alternating fashion while wearing Jesse's shoes.

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