Name: Don't Tell Me
Duration: P00H02M39S
Description: A fun song to play live...with a 'tip of the hat wink' to Nashville twang on guitar. Pat Metzger lays down a nice tongue-in-cheek upright bass, in reply!

Don't Tell Me

from Time to Face the Music - EP by Stephen King

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A fun song to play live...with a 'tip of the hat wink' to Nashville twang on guitar. Pat Metzger lays down a nice tongue-in-cheek upright bass, in reply!

lyrics

Don’t tell me your story
Don’t tell me at all
Don’t tell me your story
By the old liquor store

I won’t say what bothers
I won’t say out of pride
But your bad manners and tall tales
Got you in this scrape, tonight.
Now and then you think things
are just going swell
You had to go and do something
like this

Saw you walking down the street
I saw you …clear as day
You were laughing you were smiling
Doing these things that you never could with me!

Don’t tell me your story
Don’t tell me your lies
Don’t tell me it's over
By the old moonlight

Solo

Bridge
What if we made lots of money?
Wouldn’t we be like those people
We made fun of…

Your public persona
Has taken a dip
Your porch is creaking and
Your ears are ringing
That’s middle age, I guess

Solo

She used to turn over a letter
Now she just touches a screen
With small bird bones and a little retriever
She is looking bittersweet

credits

from Time to Face the Music - EP, released October 1, 2011
Featuring:
Pat Metzger - acoustic bass
Joel Fountain - drums kit
Stephen King - vocals, acoustic guitar

Joel Fountain - recording engineer
Indie Pool - mastering

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Stephen King Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

An award-winning guitarist well versed in folk & jazz combining genres into an amalgam of storytelling with improvisation, best described as indie-antifolk. Driven by experiences which express a personal, romantic and artistic idealism; at times political, while having social and environmental concern. Using craft and wit, the music draws inspiration from a range of traditions including Canadian. ... more

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