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High Voltage Line

from Knack for Negligence by Eric Dahl

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High Voltage Line

© 1995 by Eric Dahl

If my boss calls could you get his name?
Who's in charge of my boss?
What kinda business has no one to blame
when the profit just adds to the loss?

The life she lives keeps pounding
as the life she envisions plays along
like a pickup band sounding
ready to blow you away
if they ever learn to play
her best song.

Her hand's on the door
but she's not sure
what's on the other side.
She walks through
with eyes that refuse to hide
from a greedy ponce
without an ounce of class
or someone righteous who’s wrong
or some fool trying for a piece of ass,
such geniuses they can't get along.

The life she lives keeps pounding
as the life she envisions plays along
like a pickup band sounding
ready to blow you away
if they ever learn to play
her best song.

Dreaming bout hotels
on a foreign coastline
doesn't help with the rent check at all.
Do you remember that time?
Do you remember the balcony?
Oh wait, I gotta take this call.

A list of the good times
we never got back to
would fill an appointment book.
Sometimes she looks at me
like I'm just another phone,
ringing off the hook.

I can take the strain
of any hurricane
in this tropic of fever and shove,
hold her ice cold or warm,
carry her through the storm,
I can even hold back my love.

Now I wanna play you a song,
keep you dancing all night long,
I know you been waiting
and I heard what you said,
could we start off quiet
with my hands on your head?

One sip of the long-awaited wine
goes straight to my head
like a high voltage line,
straight to her head
like a high voltage line,
head to toe turn me around,
gotta find some way
to get my feet back on the ground.

The days are long and crazy.
The nights are short and strange.
I can make it a week
or to the end of the year,
but somethings gotta change,
somethings gotta change.

Another sip of the long-awaited wine
goes straight to my head
like a high voltage line,
straight to her head
like a high voltage line.

The song gets easy,
we can do no wrong,
singing hold me, hold me,
all night long,
hold me, hold me,
all night long.

The life she lives keeps pounding
as the life she envisions plays along,
like a pickup band sounding
ready to blow you away
if they ever learn to play
her best song,
her best song.

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from Knack for Negligence, released July 1, 1995

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Eric Dahl Seattle, Washington

His music ranges from acoustic neo-rockabilly to thoughtful and reflective with a voice somewhere between Johnny Cash and Lou Reed.

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