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Lonelyville
03:17
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LONELYVILLE
Nobody's glad to see you,
Nobody wonders where you've been,
And at the Hotel Lonely Arms nobody checks you in.
Nobody's there to greet you,
Nobody shakes your hand,
And for your first night on the town no one has something planned.
Welcome to Lonelyville
Your stay has just begun,
Welcome to Lonelyville
Population--one.
Nobody does your laundry,
Nobody bakes your bread,
And when you think you've made a date no one shows up instead.
Nobody listens to you, nobody cares whats on your mind.
So try a game of solitare, high hand's one-of-a-kind.
Welcome to Lonelyville
Your stay has just begun,
Welcome to Lonelyville
Population--one.
It takes one to tango
And nobody's there to teach you.
You need no phone,
You're all alone
And no one's desperate to reach you.
It's another black night on the red-eye special to Lonelyville.
You pretend you're in the pink, but deep inside you're blue.
As you sit alone in your crummy hotel room
Drinking your single malt Scotch,
Eating your soggy cup-o-noodles soup,
You think yo yourself, "Hell.
This ain't so bad. At least I have a place to hang my hat...or myself."
Welcome to Lonelyville
Your stay has just begun
Welcome to Lonelyville
Population--one.
You can cry your eyes out, no one stares,
'Cause no one really cares.
Your only friend is the time you kill.
Welcome to Lonelyville
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Spring Is a Bringdown
04:05
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Spring is a Bringdown
Some people say it’s a season of song
Of romance and roses in bloom
I say the people who say that are wrong
I know ‘cause I spend it alone in my room
Wind on the street gusts wet cold
The same thing each year just gets old
Spring
Is just a bringdown to me
And every tree I see in bloom
Whispers gloom to me
The season fills me with misery
Hey
Spring
Is just a bringdown I find
That I am not inclined to dig
A groovy Springtime gig
It Wigs me, Igs me, and Blows my Mind
Those lovers hand in hand;
I don't understand why they're all a buzz
What is it Spring does,
To the birds and the bees?
Makes them weak in the knees, tell me please,
Cause it just makes me sneeze.
Lilacs and love-
Are a drag,
Jasmine and joy-
Not my bag
I forgot each forget me not
Because I got a lot of what should be forgot
Pollen is pain ala carte
Crushing my brain and my heart
I should blow where it’s always snow,
Johnny's Helsinki bound,
Cause Spring is one big fat bringdown
It’s bringin’ me down
Each time it comes around
I go to Bummertown
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Wet Blanket
04:21
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WET BLANKET
When I walk into a room
Everybody turns their head
I’m like a coroner’s perfume
The conversation stops dead
The women cross their legs
The men avert their eyes
There’s something in the air that begs
You cannot help but hear
Though it’s unsaid, unsaid
I’m a wet blanket
I’m a we-e-e-e-t blanket
I’m a wet blanket
Take me to bed
My neediness is loud
You can cut with a knife
But no sharp object is allowed
For reasons that should be obvious to anyone if you’ve ever been around anyone who was clinically depressed
If you wanna feel good
Then baby, I’m your man
Good from doin’ what you should
Then I’m the Marshall Plan
I’m lousy company tonight
A hopeless case, a fool, a blight
If I was only outasite, as well as out of out of mind
But I’m banking on your guilt
TO get me through the night
So, roll over, turn the other cheek
I’ll only stay, I’ll only stay a week
Or look at me and tortured be
For weeks, and weeks, and weeks, and weeks and weeks instead, instead
Cuz I’m a wet blanket
I’m a we-e-e-e-t blanket
I’m a wet blanket
Take me to bed
I’ll even lie in the wet spot
Hell, I am the wet spot
I’m a wet, I’m a wet, I’m a wet,
Blanket baby, yeah, yeah
So wet, so what, so what so wet
So wet, so what, so what so wet
So wet, so what, so what so wet, so what
Wrap yourself up in me
And let’s get, let’s get soggy
Uh-huh, I wanna get soggy
I’m so wet
Wet blanket
Snuggle up baby, with me.
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4. |
Chain of Heartbreak
04:51
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CHAIN OF HEARTBREAK
Healing from
reeling from
love unreturned
what have I learned from my mistakes?
I've learned there's a chain of heartbreaks
You hurt me
and left me lost and blue
I turn around and hurt somebody new
Don't nobody give
a damn about the love they take
if it makes you feel better
helps you to forget her
Healing from
reeling from
love unreturned
what have I learned from my mistakes?
I've learned there's a chain of heartbreaks
Forgive me for not forgiving you
Til I move on theres nothing I can do
I'm sorry to make you
The wreckage drowning in my wake
That I use to feel better
Helped me to forget her
Go on try a running
It’ll hold you
Hold you tight within its iron arms
If you’d only asked me
I’d have told you
That you just can’t escape from its charms
Healing from
reeling from
love unreturned
what have I learned from my mistakes?
I've learned there's a chain of heartbreaks
It’s easy to go from link to link
You build your chain
You never stop and think
Just wear your chain and share your chain
And lie there cryin’ bitter tears
But your heart won’t recover
Till you break your next lover
Healing from
reeling from
love unreturned
what have I learned from my mistakes?
I've learned there's a chain of heartbreak
A chain, a chain of heartbreak. Heartbreak
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Big Black Hole
03:18
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Big Black Hole
Your heart's a big black hole
It sucked me in when I wasn't lookin'
Your heart's a big black hole
I took a step and I was took in
I should have left you and well enough alone
When you told me you had a gravity of your own
You're heart's a Big Black Hole
It's a vacuum; Mother Nature abhors it
You're heart's a Big Black Hole
And that's from one-who adores it
Your gravitational pull left me full
Of longing for self-control
But that inertia can hurt cha when you heart
Becomes part of a Big...Black Hole
My heart is filled with fear
Everytime you and I come near
Because from what I hear
When I'm with you--I disappear, dear
But I am under your spell
Knowing full well that you have captured my soul
And to retrieve it I must break free
Free of this tractor beam that you beam at me
Break free, blast off, get outa here
Out of your layers of atmosphere
Out into space, out of your face
And this Big (big, biggity, big)
It’s so big – it’s big, it’s infinitely big
Big, Black, Black Hole. Yeah
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6. |
Match Made in Hell
03:46
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MATCH MADE IN HELL
When the smoke gets in your eyes
That’s when I realize
I’m still carrying a torch for you
My eyes sting with irritation
My throat hurts from inhalation
And the cause of this sensation must be you
Now you’re back again
My body’s filled with lust
Just like when they voted us couple
Most likely to spontaneously combust
Hot and heavy, that’s how we burned
Like flesh on an open flame
Now the fire’s gone
But the coals glow on
The temperature is still the same
We were a match made in Hell
We went together like fire and ice
We were a match made in Hell
I don’t wanna see a match burn twice
I don’t wanna see a match burn twice
Blue tip, torrid torment
Seared me night after night after night, my dear
Now I know what that sign about your door meant
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here
Some say old love never dies
That the feeling always returns
But God, it’s hard
When your heart is scarred
All over with third degree burns
We were a match made in Hell
We went together like fire and ice
We were a match made in Hell
I don’t wanna see a match burn twice
I don’t wanna see a match burn twice
No, no, no, no, no no
I don’t wanna see
You and me
Burn twice, you see
No! No
Match. Burn. You and me
Twice, no, no, no
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7. |
How Far Down
05:29
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HOW FAR DOWN
Thought I hit the bottom
When you jilted me,
But the more I suffered
The more I came to see
The bottom I’d been feeling
Much to my regret
Was in fact the ceiling
Of someplace lower yet
And I thought how far down can I go
That’s one thing that I just don’t know
How far down can I go
That’s one thing that I just don’t know.
Is how far down how far down I can go
Tore up your love letters
Took your pictures down
Saved them in my desk drawer
Just in case you came around
Called up my old lovers
Asked them out on dates
Being extra charming
To the ones I know you hate
And I thought how far down can I go
That’s one thing that I just don’t know
How far down can I go
That’s one thing that I just don’t know
Is how far down how far down I can go
Sold all my possessions
Moved out on the street
Stewing in depression
Cardboard on my feet
But every shot of rotgut
Every needle too
Brought no happy thought but
How I’d proved my love to you
Face down in the gutter
Breathing my last breath
My heart began to flutter
As it did the dance of death
But oh, the joy that filled me
The blessing in my curse
Cause even though it killed me
You would feel worse
When you saw how far down I could go
That’s one thing that you just didn’t know
How far down I could go
That’s one thing that you just didn’t know, no, no, no
Was how far down, how far down I could go
How far down, down, down, I could go
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THE GIRL WHO WASN’T THERE
I married a girl who wasn't there
she disappeared into thin air
how long she'd been gone no one could tell
her body remained a compelling she-shell
but the girl long since checked out
a kiss on the lips would leave no doubt
her within was without
she wasn't there
Where did she go
I don't know
Where did she go
I don't know, don't know
I married a girl in a disguise
she vanished right before my eyes
when I asked her why she went away
she held out her hand and said
"What did you say?"
You might assume she just didn't hear
but close in my arms she was nowhere near
It was painfully clear
She wasn't there.
you marry your dream
Your dream has a dream
Tells you you're waking
to keep you asleep
To burnish your hours
with pillows and shadows
comfortable shallows
passing for deep
I married a girl made out of dreams
Her brilliant smiles bound the seams
Was there any way to carry on
But pretend I never knew she was gone
And she never came back though she sat in her chair
and stroked my neck and played with my hair
I could see in the eyes with the cyclones of care
I married a girl who wasn't there
Where did she go
I don't know
Where did she go
I don't know
I don’t know
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9. |
Love of My Mind
07:40
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LOVE OF MY MIND
Once again, I’m by myself out walking the streets at night
Holding your memory tight
It’s all I have
And though it may seem like I’m living a dream life
I really do believe life
Without my pretending you love me, would be empty gloom
Through the fog, I’m strolling with the ghost of a love long gone
How else can I carry on
So much of my life I’ve spent thinking about you
That living without you
Would leave me so lonely
The only way for me, is fantasize love thrives
My make-believe love affair
Makes foggy evenings bright
If those were only real lips that I kiss goodnight
‘Till that day, I’ll find my love in shadows that haunt the dawn
Ignoring the fact that you’re gone
Love of my mind
Oh, how I pray that you’ll stop disappearing
My ears keep on hearing
You say that you love me
And never will leave me alone anymore
Like you did before
Dreams became real
And make-believe love was all I could feel
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I LOVE YOU (AT A DISTANCE)
When you're near I start to worry
When you're gone, I feel so blue
So, when I call you and say, “hurry,”
I hope you’ll understand when I confess these words to you
I love you, at a distance
Which, I'm certain, creates a strain
But your presence precedes a pain
That is only matched
When we're unattached
I feel so close, at a distance
Instead of joining at the hip
Let's make sure that you've your own "zip"
So, we can rendezvous
After a mile or two
I long to be with you, without you
Together but mostly apart
When you're gone, I'm crazy about you
But when you're near
There's a guard at my heart
Please let me hold you, at a distance
and keep you there to stay
Can't you see that it’s better that way?
Oh, so much better
If we just unfetter
And make love in a letter
I can read on a plane, which takes me away to that distance
With a comfortable zone of resistance
Where I can open my heart
Closer – but further apart
I’m so glad you’re here
Could you just back up, maybe six feet?
Just, there, that's perfect
Maybe move in, a little,
Yeah, yeah, just a little
Uh, maybe go back
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11. |
Don't Feel Sorry For Me
02:46
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DON’T FEEL SORRY FOR ME
I feel so bad, do you feel bad?
I feel so bad, do you feel bad?
I feel so bad, do you feel bad?
Don’t feel sorry for me
Don’t give me your sympathy
Do I look like I hurt?
Do I feel worse than dirt?
Then don’t feel sorry for me
Don’t tell me how much you care
Don’t mention my savoire faire
Do I look like I’m worse
With each and every verse?
Then don’t tell me how much you care
(Don’t) Don’t grab my chest and beg
(Please, Don’t. Stop)
(Don’t) Don’t wrap yourself around my leg
(Please Don’t Stop)
Don’t swear that you can bear to share my pain
(Don’t. Stop. Please, Oh No, Oh, No, Oh,)
Don’t tell me all your plans
Don’t put yourself in my hands
Ne jette pas dans legue ver la bas again (again, again)
Don’t piss your future away
Don’t say everything is okay
Do I deserve your trust?
Don’t you know that you must, must, must
Forget all the bad that you see (Boo-hoo-hoo)
And don’t feel sorry
Don’t feel sorry
(Don’t you feel bad for me?)
Don’t feel sorry for me
I feel so bad, I feel, feel feel so bad
Feel bad, bad, bad
Do you feel bad?
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Brian Lohmann Pleasant Hill, California
Brian Lohmann is a singer/songwriter and improv comedian originally from San Francisco. He's hosted TV shows and toured with John Wesley Harding's "Love Hall Tryst." He appeared Off Broadway in "Two's a Crowd," and Lifegame. Brian wrote songs for, and acted in, the indie film, "Thanks," starring Rita Rudner and Edi Patterson. He has an alter-ego: tortured torch singer, Johnny Lonely ... more
