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Strummer
03:45
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You call me
and I’m lying in bed.
It’s Christmas eve
and you’re telling me Joe Strummer’s dead.
I don’t know if I have what it takes,
to get through this holiday break,
I’m eating too much chocolate and I’m feeling down,
and it doesn’t help, that you’re not around.
I’m not trying to be a grouch,
I like this time of year, but I don’t like finding out,
bad news – like Joe’s death,
when you call me, you ought to be a little more adept.
I don’t know if I have what it takes,
to get through this holiday break,
I’m eating too much chocolate and I’m feeling down,
and it doesn’t help, that you’re not around.
It’s early and I’m putting up the tree.
It’s early and I’m putting up the tree.
It’s early and I’m putting up the tree.
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2. |
Yeah, Yah, Ya
02:19
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3. |
Dear Abbey
03:03
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4. |
Three Hot Potatoes
03:57
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Well, it’s a bit laughable,
but not so laudable,
that what scares me,
is my own temerity.
I am a grown man,
but I sure don’t understand,
what goes on between the sheets,
makes my knees go weak.
Do you think of yerself,
in a sure hell,
by saying what you say,
even with your sobriquet.
Chorus
Three hot potatoes
are getting cold
three hot potatoes
are getting so old.
Three hot potatoes
make it hard to give
Three hot potatoes
make it hard to give.
Tongue wrapped,
so I can’t speak.
Tongue wrapped
around my teeth.
You make that exodus,
like a magnet to your fist.
Feet move with clumsy tread,
and you won’t say
what’s in your head.
I thought you’d learned by now,
that you’re too old to kowtow.
Snake shaking in his skin,
not shaking, but shedding in,
could you shed some light,
before we fight.
Chorus
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5. |
Slipping into Debt
03:50
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8. |
Pawnshop
03:27
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9. |
Glum
03:51
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10. |
All You Can Do
03:19
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11. |
One-horse Town
05:41
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Why did we ever pull into this one-horse town?
We’ve had nothing but bad luck ever since our car broke down.
Then our it was broken into and we were robbed,
They left a bunch of cigarette butts and took every last thread of cloth.
We stopped in and we told the cops,
They just sat back and started to laugh.
So we stole their bicycles and then
Got thrown off them by the Inland staff.
With bruises on our foreheads,
They started talking about a special tax treaty,
They said we owed them three thousand,
They threatened that our wages would be docked electronically.
So, I ask,
Why did we ever pull into this one-horse town?
Life is getting more expensive
we told the town mayor.
He told us that we better work on the Cobol
To program the county fair.
We said Fortran and Cobol are long lost
They’re already bound up in dusty novels on your bookshelf,
A customs guard didn’t like what we were saying,
Told us you can’t get away with such language when you’re down south.
An insurance salesman visited us and
And said that term would be the best due to our predicament,
He threw in a George Foreman grill,
Even said that he had boxed himself for a very short stint.
So I ask,
Why did we ever pull into this one-horse town?
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12. |
Ambivalent Negotiator
02:53
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And you know what I said.
It is not what you need.
I forgot what I said.
Take away what you want.
Chorus
And you got one on me,
that’s what I’m for.
It leads me to believe
that I am an ambivalent negotiator.
And you know what you said.
It is not what you got.
I don’t what you need.
I don’t know what you want.
Chorus
And you got one on me,
that’s what I’m for.
It leads me to believe
that I am an ambivalent negotiator.
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