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06/24/2005 Entry: "Shell"

-shell lyrics

Shell:

She's come out of here shell
She's overcome the vacuum of my spell
I'd say she's doing well.

And if I weren't so plowed
To see she's moving with a better crowd (than mine)
I'd say she's done me proud.

Since she let me go, baby,
Seems to me like someone else is
Dressing in her clothes --
She ain't anyone I know.

She's moving off the grounds
And since she lost those hundred-fifty pounds (that's me)
She ain't dating know more clowns.

(alternate end of chorus):
I'm wasting so much time
Girls you find a dozen for a dime
I ain't dating no more mimes.

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I started writing this song in the streetcar. I didn't have an axe handy, so used a song from another band as the skeleton: "just You Wait", the first track from the Paybacks' latest album.

Also, I thought about "positive country", a new radio format that was making its way to the forefront back when I was an intern at BMG. Mostly, positive country was about female artists singing about having been broken up with somebody and being all the better for it. I just reversed the roles.

And I threw in a coupla barbs, just to even things out.