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Beatniks in Love

from TROUBLE by Joe Menichetti & Barry Phillips

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BEATNIKS IN LOVE

Never thought I’d end up in this place
A room full of turtlenecks, leather, and black berets
There’s a guy with a bongo with a book with an angry face
He's sitting on a stool in the middle of a little stage

What was I thinking, this ain’t my style
It’s time for some drinking for a while, for a while

Found a table and a drink in the nick of time
Found two eyes across the room staring back at mine
Heard some words about love and dogs and pain
End of the world and something about the lucky insane

Her eyes have burned through me
We are as one
And as she approaches
She’s much too young, too much fun

We are just two beatniks in love
We make our own set of rules
Bongo drum to beat out the truth
Poetry is cool

Her earrings hung to her shoulders
Made of silver, very different
Her hair looked ironed and I told her

Beautiful, and yet I knew she cared
She sat on my lap as I stared into her jet black hair

Her head on my shoulder
She said wow man, I said yeah man
I took her hand and I told her
I’ve got some great books
That’s all it took

We are just two beatniks in love
We make our own set of rules
Bongo drum to beat out the truth
Poetry is cool

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from TROUBLE, track released December 31, 2020

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Joe & Barry San Francisco, California

Joe Menichetti is a guitarist and songwriter.
Barry Phillips has worked with Ravi and Anoushka Shankar and is a recording engineer, multi-instrumentalist and composer.
All the songs on Trouble were originally written and recorded by Joe on his 4-track cassette deck in the mid 80's. Hope you enjoy this wild and wacky ride. ... more

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