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Quite Contrary

by Old Man Mike

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Armageddon_Speaking visceral vox and acoustic guitar combine to create one of my favourite album experiences of the past six months - old man mike's quite contrary regularly sees me singing along badly to myself both with and without the music playing.
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1.
I'll Be Around 07:40
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I don't know when I'm coming round again I don't know when I'm coming round again But I tell you, girl You'll be the first one on my list. Yeah I, I don't know when I'll be around again But, girl, you'll be the first one on my list I'll be calling you I don't know when I'll be around again But girl, you'll be on my list You'll be on my list You'll be on my list Girl. Girl. Girl. I got to tell you, really I hope you don't It ain't my fault but, girl I don't know when I'll be around again Girl Girl, I don't know when I'll be around again Around again Girl, I'm telling you Girl I don't know when I'm going to be around again Oh, darling. Girl, I don't know when I'll be around again Oh, oh Don't know when I'll be around again Don't know when I'll be around again I don't know when I'll be around again Oh girl, I don't know when I'll be around again Don't know when I'll be around again Don't know when I'll be around again
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Feel It (Can You) 03:44
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The drink, that's never full It's empty and lonely That's okay We're safe inside Left alone in an empty place (Just a feeling) (Just a feeling) Left alone in an empty place Just a box of chocolates Whole time thinking about this place Left alone in an empty place Just a paintbrush (box of chocolates) And a day alright to be friendly and sadly la, la, la, la That was all I think (Left alone in an empty place) (Just a feeling) Left alone in an empty place Something feeling I've been waiting all night and day Can't you feel it?
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Maybe I'm Late 04:10
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I've never been lost like myself was on that day That day you took me out with all those places to see You showed me where the whizz was and I did not believe in me I did not believe in me Did not really believe You took me out that day, I was a terrible mess, babe I didn't what to see them things was written inside of my face Would I ever want of what I could not even say? Maybe I'm just wrong from the getting day Maybe I'm just wrong from original me No one ever told me that I would stray Maybe I'm just wrong Maybe I'm late Maybe I'm late Maybe I'm late I'm late Maybe I'm not wrong, maybe I'm just late Maybe sad day songs was never too late
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Ask You 04:26
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From yeah, oh, oh, oh yeah Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh baby can I see? Oh baby can I see? Oh baby, are you here with me? I don't know What more can I say? Did you feel it? Feel it's time Could I ask you did you feel it? Feel it's time I maybe ask you did you feel it? This time
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The Chord 02:52
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I wish I would play something natural So my eyes could get around it And I wouldn't be so lost and confused And I'd have something to say about it Except for all of these empty times Waiting for the ends coming up and about But it never seems to come because I'm waiting around now. But the chord never comes in Didn't know the way But you still, I'm still, waiting here singing this same old silly song out. Said I'm waiting for the chord now Think, I think I'm coming in now I don't know what I would have said now I would, hey, I said what you think now? Now here's a chord now You'd like the chord now Well play it on down Every night, every day every last sound Heres the chord again You like the chord now I want to play it now Did you hear it now? Well there the chord now I hope you're lying down Well there they goes now what I haven't didn't even know what you was caring about There's the chord now Yeah There's the chord now There he is, that chord now In goes it down, down
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This Way 02:34
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Where did you see The light coming in, again? Did you see? I see I didn't know Where did you see The light coming in? I didn't know I didn't see
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(Doctor) Nothing Too Serious 02:39
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I'm sorted Brush my teeth Stare into the mirror While I'm talking to myself And I'm telling me I look like a doctor And I'm thinking fables And I said well, I'm afraid it's cancer, laugh and say: Nah, too serious, oh: I'm afraid it's chickenpox I'm too young: I'm afraid it's twisted ankle It's nothing too serious Would you like to come to bar with me? Yes? Good Would you like to come to the bar with me? Man, you're so beautiful And I think I'm talking to myself and I say God! Fuck! You are beautiful, you are beautiful Well, well, well! Then I walk to bed Master fate Over pictures Of great importance But soon I get tired again and a fever till I'm almost of heart Yeah, yeah, yeah I've stoned souls And I wash my teeth and I stare into the mirror While I'm talking to myself And I'm telling me I should be a doctor But I think I forget I'm afraid they said it was What it was when it was I couldn't tell when it was But I knew what it was I knew what it was I knew what it
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Stable 06:14
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When I was living in a house Was very nice Was something else, round my side You were something else You were something else Living in a house Keys on the table Never wanted nothing Except for a stable But it's something else now And I don't know what it is Living in a house now Don't know where it is Could be round the corner Could be on the street Don't know where it is now But I really like that place People come around now Talk to my face Looking for a stable Somewhere to go Something nice and dry now Out of the snow and Somewhere to rely on Somewhere to call my own But I keep bouncing Back into this zone Looking for a stable Haven't found it yet What I'm going to get now Thinking about something else Listen to you all now Don't know what you mean But you mean something This is the stable We live inside Never wanted nothing Except for a life to live And if we live it Can we also die it? But inside this stable There is no room for doubt Welcome to the stable Hope you enjoy Stay for a while now Sit inside There's room for plenty Especially for you If you don't want to You don't have to do
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Sunglasses 03:32
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Sunglasses on a very very dark street Sunglasses on a very very dark street Sunglasses on a very very dark street Sunglasses on a very very dark street Sunglasses on a very very dark street Sunglasses on a very very dark street Sunglasses on a very very dark street Sunglasses on a very very dark street I didn't know your name but I knew the way you looked, oh Your silver eyes are shining Just like thunder Sunglasses on a very very dark day Sunglasses on a very very dark day Sunglasses on a very very dark day Sunglasses on a very very dark day Could it have been the ether in the air Could there be something? I didn't recognize it much before, but I'm feeling Sunglasses on a very very dark day Sunglasses on a very very dark day Sunglasses on a very very dark day On a very dark day Your shadows like a mystery to me I cannot figure it out All the impressions that you left for me Are left here in my mouth I wear sunglasses on a very very dark day Sunglasses on a very very dark day Sunglasses on a very very dark day On a very dark day

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Guitar and vocals by Old Man Mike.

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released February 21, 2020

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Old Man Mike San Juan, Puerto Rico

Music for just after the after party

Hi, I'm Mike, I've been making music as "Old Man Mike" since 2009 after a friend jokingly called me that when I was listening to some nice morose (in the best possible way) Nick Cave music. I thought it was funny in my 20's, because everyone else was tiny and lil and baby. And those will get old quick. But Old Man Mike is ready made history: timeless ... more

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