Don't Telephone

from HOPE!!! and other songs by Commander Clark

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Jasmine Drudge-Willson is playing accordion and singing
Bad Luck Bloomer is playing drums
Frankie Braves is playing the bass guitar and singing backup
Sasha Chornyy is playing guitar and singing backup
Andy Clark is the songwriter

lyrics

Well I've heard you calling, baby
And I'm excited as all hell
But when I finally picked up the phone
You've been looking for someone else
Now I know I seem a bit weird, it's hard to help myself
But I'm just being who I am while you drag me straight through hell

'Cause I can't sleep!
I can't smile!
My clothes are in a pile!
I can't get out of bed
Knowing you need someone else instead

[in this version the second verse is improvised, but this is the INTENDED verse]
Now I seen ya again, baby, after three whole weeks
Maybe four, maybe more, the truth it hurts to seek
But you're looking rather well and you booked a jazzy date
The expression on my face is an expression of my fate

'Cause I can't sleep!
I can't smile!
My clothes are in a pile!
I can't get out of bed
Knowing you need someone else instead

YOU NEED SOMEONE INSTEAD!
I can't smile, my clothes lay in a pile!
YOU NEED SOMEONE INSTEAD!
I can't smile, my clothes lay in a pile!
YOU NEED SOMEONE INSTEAAAADDD!
I can't smile, my clothes are in a pile!
I NEED SOMEONE INSTEAD!

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from HOPE!!! and other songs, track released May 14, 2013
RECORDED BY SOUNDMANN LIVE AT STARLIGHT APRIL 3 2013

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Commander Clark Montreal, Québec

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2009-2017

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