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Wasting <play song>

Met a friend at the polling site yesterday when we were working. She said she wanted to write a song with the idea and title- 'I'm not wasting this song on you'. She came to the right place.

Wasting, not wasting.

Co-writing: I sorta gave it up for a lark. It was usually fraught with boring slowfer process that puts my nerves on edge and excruciating parsing of the indivisible. Attempted parsing of what I felt was or should be indivisible anyway. So a good co-write for me happens too fast to become a burden. Blink and you’ll miss it. It’s a holy ghost happening.

“No thanks” to future or past co-writing pseudo-buddy, I don’t want their one or a hundred e-mails telling me of the latest fad in song-smithering that they have fallen in love with and insist we re-edit the entire song we were already tricking around with for two months already with triple bottom alliterations or whatever the faddy fad is this week. Write the damn song! Then write another much faddier one.

Thanks Angela for making this a good process and easy back and forth with the text changes and for not wasting, wasting a song title, on me. Another thing Angela’s name is spelt WELCH, not the Cavan way, so I gotta remember that.

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I'm not wasting a song on you.

I'm not wasting this song on you
There's so much promise yet you never do
Kill my cat, screw with me too
I'm not wasting, wasting, a whole song on you. 

[CHORUS]
I'm not wasting - this night for you
You give me less - than I deserve too
Say something stupid - then I might stew
I'm not wasting, wasting - this night on you.
Wasting wasting - this song on you. 

It's not hard to figure shit out
While you're around I want to hurl in my mouth
Break my dishes, go crap on my heart
The best place to go is only apart.

I’m tired of long talk, all this telling me to
I give & gave but you've no class an’ no clue
That's over now we’ve done black & done blue 
I’m not wasting, wasting this song on you. 

<Co-write from an idea by Angela Welch in Brooklyn. Yay! Thanks Angela>

© Lyrics by John Munnelly and Angela Welch. 
© Melody and arrangement by John Munnelly
5th November 2024

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