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matrimonal enemy (Lyric) by hendrimike you just keep on pushing me backwards and forwards thru time
and i can't keep on livin' with anger for what is not mine
turning me around again and again to come home
and i can't keep from crying and slamming down the phone
i just keep on pushing you backwards and forwards thru time
and you couldn't keep livin' with anger for what's not yours
turning me around again and again to come home
and you hold the reciever and break down again on the phone
put a nickel in the machine my girl
spin the wheel to see what you win
it's a lifetime with me
your matrimonal enemy
the burning smell of smoke in the bar
the kids are gone sleeping off the day
and i came here to drink it away
she calls the bar for me to say
can't you come home?
won't you come home?
put a nickel in the machine my girl
spin the wheel to see what you win
it's a lifetime with me
your matrimonal enemy
and in the night, when it finally ends
stumble home to the mess that i'm in
you're waiting there with the kids in your hands
you are leaving me in our beat up minivan
off into darkness you drove away
and i sat in the kitchen and waited for day
you never came home or called again
this was our life and this is how it ends
put a nickel in the machine my girl
spin the wheel to see what you win
it's a lifetime with me
your matrimonal enemy
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Posted: June 7, 2005 7:28 PM PDT; Last modified: August 30, 2005 6:45 PM PDTWeighted score: 5.1490035 Overall Rank: 5260 Comments:
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lil_evil_boi @ 70.68.76.244
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7-Jun-05/8:08 PM
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Hi. Just curious, where did you get the lyrics from? What song? I find the lyrics touching. Somehow. <7>
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hendrimike @ 70.106.122.122
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7-Jun-05/8:12 PM
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i guess i picked the wrong category...i wrote it.
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lil_evil_boi @ 70.68.76.244
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7-Jun-05/8:23 PM
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Really? Amazing. You could be a songwriter when you grow up. Unless you already are. It's probably so good that it sounds like a song. I dont think you've posted it under the wrong category. It's good. I wonder if others think it's a song too.
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hendrimike @ 70.106.122.122
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7-Jun-05/8:29 PM
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i am in my mid-twenties...i wrote it as a song...got to learn that geetar though
WOW. THis song is lovely. <8>
You thought it was an actual song too? LOL. Me 2. But Hendrimike actaully wrote it. Isnt that amazing?
what's up with the voting/rank system on this site...my votes disappeared
Bizarre...
Idle question: Is there any machine in any part of America that still runs on nickles?
PS-Your votes disappear when you edit. Don't bother complaining to nentwined about it. It'll just make you embarassed in the morning.
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Oh. I mean, I just thought it was one of those things that people say in songs because people say them in songs, like calling a guitar a "six string" or standing in the rain with a knife in your heart and the wounds never heal and so on. That is, you could just say it's a quarter instead of a nickel. A dollar, even. Unless you want people to think you live in the 30s.
i just thought that nickel flowed better into the word in. "quarter in the machine..." i don't like it. same with dollar.
Yeah, that's probably why people have said "nickel in the machine" since machines actually ran on nickels. The problem isn't really the wording, it's that the whole image is way past its prime.
i should have been born in the thirties, i guess. i'm a throwback...
made subtle changes
I agree that the nickel sounds a bit odd. Maybe you could say coin...or put your change in the machine...maybe that would work..otherwise pretty good overall...
There's a couple of places that are a little inconsistent and could be a problem if you put it to music...but maybe not...depending on what kind of a song you want it to be.
I don't like the word "Mini-van" in any poem.
by the time I read to the end of this poem/lyric, I was singing it...now it will be in my head all day...lol excellent emotions...:) Bethy *8*
thanks...
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