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Man Overboard (for all the wrong reasons)

from Life On The Trapeze by Neil Porter

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It seems to me that there are a lot of disenfranchised people around the place these days – honest, hard working people who for no fault of their own find themselves disconnected from life through unanticipated financial disaster. This is about one of them.

Just me on this one – guitars, bass, vocals, piano and midi drums. It’s pretty full on ☺

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Man Overboard (for all the Wrong Reasons)
©2010 Neil Porter

I’ve got a bottle of wine and a rocking chair
I’ve got nowhere I’m going and no way to get there
Lazy rockin’ chair
Pass that bottle of wine

I’m not spending my life on a carousel
Going round and round that don’t make you feel well
Life’s a carousel
Pass that bottle of wine
Life’s a carousel
Pass that bottle of wine

I’m no man of action
Ain’t no man of the people
Not some Action Jackson
Not some axis of evil
Maybe a man of the times
Man for all seasons
A man overboard
For all the wrong reasons
I’m a man overboard
For all the wrong reasons

I’ve spent too much time round a wishing well
I got no more coins and nothing to sell
No more wishing well
Pass that bottle of wine

I’ve got two strong arms and a head full of hair
Still got most of my wits and I don’t really care
Two strong arms
Pass that bottle of wine
Yeah two fairly strong arms baby
Pass that bottle of wine

I’m no man of action
Ain’t no man of the people
Not some Action Jackson
Not some axis of evil
Maybe a man of the times
Man for all seasons
A man overboard
For all the wrong reasons
I’m a man overboard
For all the wrong reasons

I’m no man of action
Ain’t no man of the people
Not some Action Jackson
Not some axis of evil
Maybe a man of the times
Man for all seasons
A man overboard
For all the wrong reasons
I’m a man overboard
For all the wrong reasons

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from Life On The Trapeze, released December 12, 2012
Vocals, guitars, drums, bass, piano - Neil Porter

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Singer songwriter from Pambula Beach in Australia.

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