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Week 27 - Filling Out Forms (07​-​05​-​18)

from Song A Week, Volume 3 by James Tristan Redding

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Co-written with Thomas Ciganko and Richard Binder.

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This was the last thing that I wanted
There ain’t nothing left to do
Oh babe it hurts like hell to have to do this
But I’m doing it for you

Can’t believe how many pages full of questions
All these details to disclose
But if it gets you moving faster out the door
I’ll tell ‘em what they wanna’ know

Anything to make you happy
Just tell me what it is I have to do
Anything to get your ass to move on out
Because I’m goddamned sick and tired of you

Night after night convicted without a trial
Bare my cross, wear my crown of thorns
So don’t mind me here with my #2 pencil
Sharpened up and filling out these forms

Nothing beats the smell of angst and instant coffee
In the fake fluorescent light
The busted ceiling fan and Marge behind the counter
Fuck me raw what’s not to like

They put your IQ and your shoe size in a folder
And where you were in ‘83
Last time I let somebody bend me this far over
I got a colonoscopy

Anything to make you happy
Just tell me what it is I have to do
Anything to get your ass to move on out
Because I’m goddamned sick and tired of you

Night after night convicted without a trial
Bare my cross, wear my crown of thorns
So don’t mind me here with my #2 pencil
Sharpened up and filling out these forms

Almost chickened out as I handed in the papers
But I’ve come too far to walk away
Behind the counter I saw Marge begin to chuckle
And that’s when she turned to say

Son, I’m gonna’ share a secret
With you before I take my lunch
That chick of yours was in here only yesterday
And that bitch beat you to the punch

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from Song A Week, Volume 3, released February 12, 2019

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James Tristan Redding Nashville, Tennessee

British-American songwriter, singer, audiobook narrator, studio player, Godin Guitars official artist.

Founded global collective www.SongAWeek.org, performance art experience The Under Over: tinyurl.com/uoxuo (song circle underneath a highway) and writing retreat www.TheNashville24.com (annual challenge: write 24 songs in 24 hours).

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