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A meditation. And very true too...I often wonder why I bother shaving.

Recorded in a bunk in Gt. Barrington MA, after the screaming 6 year olds had left.

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We shared a long and lonely homeward expectation
I’d been aching over baggage that I’d held so long my arms were breakin’.
It didn’t take her long before all I wanted to do was write this song.
I told her how I feel alone, and how I feel a lie,
And how there’s nothing I hate more...
Than being a wonderful guy.

And I told her...
How I’ve been on the verge of tears so long...
Think I’ve forgotten how to cry.

But:
My Someone’ s out there she said, she said:
My someone’s waiting, wanting, watching for me, and,
My someone’s sighing and she’s searching instead.
One day she’ll wake up and then she’s gonna see.

But if it’s all about chemistry,
Then what’s the earthly good in putting any blame on me?
Chalk it all up to pheremones and fantasy.
But then...Why do I bother shaving, why do I bother sighing?
Why do I bother bathing...why do I bother trying?

It’s been solid years since I started a new song.
Nearby conversations where I know I don’t belong
Seem like my only human contact’s been the bridges I helped burn,
And I’m running out of cheeks to turn.

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from Retrospect: '04​-​'10, released December 12, 2010

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