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Do What I Can
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Cheesy electronic pop-waltz with T.S.Eliot-inspired lyrics delievered in a rather queer voice.
piano ben collins michael
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Piano pop with hormones. Edgy. Creative. Melodic. Experimental. Singular.
A piano, a boy, a computer. 88 keys, vocal chords, electricity and a kaleidoscope mind. Enough of that . . . self-promotion makes me queasy. If you're willing to explore it, the key to my subconscious is available. A Skeleton Key. It will unlock all the doors, although you have to struggle with some of the bolts. A slow journey into madness all in a 30 minute album-ette! (so-called because too big for an EP but too small for a proper album). I used to record as Michael Collins. That is what my parents called me. It's already been claimed twenty times over so I decided to take up this one. Songs I wrote as Michael Collins are relics. A collection of some of those songs (called 'Relic'; purely coincidence I assure you) is available. Once upon a time I put out a disc called Fixate. Fixate was OK I guess but some bits of it pissed me off and I had a bad attack of low self-esteem and leprosy (mostly low self-esteem) so I don't talk about Fixate anymore OK?
Song Info
Genre
Alternative Indie
Charts
Peak #330
Peak in subgenre #55
Author
Ben Collins
Rights
Michael Collins 2001-200X
Uploaded
August 18, 2005
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MP3 2.2 MB 128 kbps 0:00
Story behind the song
I was dog-sitting for my aunt one stormy February night.The poor little animal (her name was Magic) would NOT settle down, so I went to the piano and made up this insane little peppy song to try and cheer her up.
Lyrics
I don't believe in your filthy machine a shot for each thought and you'll see what I mean bind them together with sticky red tape a coconut rose for your next hot blind date hide underneath the big dirty flower that expands at the rate of ten hundred miles an hour and if these things you can't understand don't blame me honey, I do what I can I do what I can, I do what I can don't blame me honey, I do what I can walk in the park for a good long half hour suck on my thumb until it turns sour marzipan lake and alcohol tree rusted old lock and forgotten oldkey big puffy cloud and sunshiney ray take an account of the next rainy day take your next hint from the garbage-can man but don't blame us, honey, we do what what we can
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