Name: Lonesome Fashion
Duration: P00H06M04S
Description: Lonesome Fashion: I challenged a friend of mine to write a song using the words “pernicious,” “alimony,” and “library card.” Almost immediately after issuing the challenge, I got the idea for this song. Sadly, I must admit defeat at my inability to work the library card into the fabric of the song.

Lonesome Fashion

from Making Things Up by Thomas Johanson

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Lonesome Fashion: I challenged a friend of mine to write a song using the words “pernicious,” “alimony,” and “library card.” Almost immediately after issuing the challenge, I got the idea for this song. Sadly, I must admit defeat at my inability to work the library card into the fabric of the song.

lyrics

You called me last night from the county jail / Saying 'honey, could you please come post my bail?'
And I know in 6 months time, without fail / You'll call again
I saw you driving in your new corvette / Though I ain't received your alimony check just yet
And I'm guessin' it's a pretty safe bet / That I won't

Your pernicious deeds, like vicious weeds / Have choked the flowers of compassion
And as a victim of your own self-contempt, you stand there, clothed in lonesome fashion

Rusty's birthday was just the other day / We threw a party, with some money I squirrelled away
And the grandfolks came down from Federal Way / A good time was had by all
Still, Rusty wishes that you was here / Instead of passed out in the drunk tank from last night's good cheer
I guess we'll just have to wait / For next year

The phone rings in the dead of the night / You're calling for one last chance to make everything all right
And you know I'm too tired to fight / But I just hang up.

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from Making Things Up, released July 19, 2011
Guitars, bass, accordion, drum machine, vocals: Thomas Johanson

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Thomas Johanson Minnesota

Unsatisfied with the notion of sticking with any particular genre, I choose to explore them all.

Here you will find a partial account of my journey.

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