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Congratulations
02:55
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CONGRATULATIONS
©Salvatore Baglio, SweetBreadSongs ASCAP & Billy Carl Mancini, Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
I’m glad that you’re feeling so inflated
You’ve got a new man and I’m elated
I thought you’d never go away
I thought you were here to stay
So this is what I have to say
Congratulations, congratulations
Oh you can’t do better than that
Congratulations
What was it that ever brought us together
I think it was the way you pulled my lever
Your smile was like a miracle
‘cause I never saw a trace until
You walked away from me
Congratulations, congratulations
Oh you stabbed me in the back
Congratulations
I hope you get all the things that I wouldn’t give you
I hope it’s what you wanted in the end
I hope I never see your face again
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2. |
Don't Blink
05:13
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DON'T BLINK
©Ruby Bird & Billy Carl Mancini, Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
Don't blink the world is turning 'round
Don't think relax and let it down
I turn around
And I don't remember all the things we said
Write it down
Try to recapture all the things we did
Slow it down
Take a picture of you and keep it in my head
A moments time it all slips away
Don't blink (Don’t look down again)
The world is turning 'round
(The view’s much better up here)
Don't think (Words that never end)
Don't listen to the sound
(It just gets stuck in your ear)
He tells me I'm too complicated
Sensitive to everything
Feel my eyes giving me away
There is an open heart floating on my sleeve
I can't change that I was born with that
Don't blink (Don’t fall down again)
The world is turning 'round
(You look much better from here)
Don't think (This is not the end)
Relax and let it down
(And we’ve got nothing to fear)
Slow it down
Take a picture of you and keep it in my head
Another day will slip away
Don't blink (Don’t look down again)
The world is turning 'round
(The world’s not slipping away)
Don't think (This is not the end)
Relax and let it down
(Cause we got something to feel…love)
Feel love It's somewhere to be found
(Cause we’ve got something that’s real…love)
Hold someone close before you're in the ground
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3. |
One Mistake
02:46
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ONE MISTAKE
©Billy Carl Mancini Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
I make one mistake
The icy lake will start to break
I can’t seem to shake the long heartache
What have I done
Walked beside you, talked like I knew
All that was true, all the answers
Golden feelings float through ceilings
They might be real, dark thoughts concealed
I’m not flying, still not crying
Mountains crumble, I won’t stumble
Human beings never seeing
Not believing all the good things now
We’ll get through somehow
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4. |
It's Already Done
03:10
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IT’S ALREADY DONE
©Ruby Bird & Billy Carl Mancini, Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
How you gonna get in the mind of a man
Who makes a hard living with a calloused hand?
An innocent kiss, a little bit of fun
No need to worry cause it’s already done
It’s all right, it’s all ready
Now we got 4 kids that are under 5
How in the heck we gonna keep ‘em alive?
River may be wide, it can always be crossed
Doesn’t help to worry cause it’s already done
It’s all right, it’s already done, it’s all right
Bring you to a place you think you’ll never go
You don’t walk in those shoes anymore
Big pile of bones where a house once stood
‘bout a half a mile on the edge of the wood
And you know that everything He said was true
An undeserved pardon is already waiting for you
It’s all right, it’s already done, it’s all right, you already
Think you’re a prisoner to a rusty dream
Caustic ambition turned to pastures green
No sense in frettin’ ‘til Heaven is won
He paid your admission, it’s already done
It’s all right, it’s already done
Don’t fight it, it’s already done
Hold tight, it’s already done
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5. |
It's an Illusion
03:26
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IT’S AN ILLUSION
©Billy Carl Mancini, Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
Sometimes I can’t play the part
You want me to, what can I do?
I’m only human after all
I’ve made mistakes not unlike you
There’ll come a time when things will have to change
And maybe all these years won’t be in vane
It’s an illusion
To look into the cloudless sky
It’s an illusion
So look into your lover’s eyes
It’s an illusion
Times are good and times are bad
And in between we float though space
Like little cosmic specs of dust
No mind to change so change the pace
Look to everyone for your own name
And where you think you are is where you’ve been
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6. |
Recluse
04:42
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RECLUSE
©Billy Carl Mancini, Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
Looking through window panes
Everything seems the same
Tracing the tracks of rain
Will I ever see you again
It’s easy to stay alone
Easy as dust and bone
Except when I’m thinking of you
I’m not sure the tried is always true
So I will be a recluse ‘til you’re mine
And I will never let loose ‘til you’re gone
Won’t feel the hands of time
Moving like dust and wind
Won’t see the glancing eyes
Won’t hear the sound of sin
So I will be a recluse ‘til you’re mine
And I will never let loose ‘til you’re gone
So I will be a recluse ‘til you’re mine
And I will never let loose until it’s time
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WAKE ME UP WHEN IT’S OVER
©Ruby Bird & Billy Carl Mancini, Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
Running to a subway line, got to get to work on time
Tonight another meeting, and it's sure to get the best of me
See her when I brush my teeth
Off to work and maybe we can get together later
And then maybe find some time to sleep
Wake me up when it's over, I'll be around here
Hope I'm still gonna know her, I'll be around here
Carburetor's clogged again, gotta have it in by ten
Lunch with an important personality, so called, they say
Dishes they are piling high, nothing clean to wear in sight
At least we've got no time to fight, so everything must be ok
Chorus
Do 'n do do...do 'n do do do do (repeat)
Music dancing in my head, lazy afternoon in bed
Whipped cream in my coffee, then a walk through fallen leaves of gold
Stop your dreaming now let's go, that was oh so long ago
I've been told the way is up, and time is tight and we're getting old
Chorus +
Round here, round here, I'll be around here....
Do 'n do do...do 'n do do do do
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8. |
Fault Line
03:35
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FAULT LINE
©Billy Carl Mancini, Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
Somebody said that I should cut my hair and play dead
Work to live that’s the game
Somebody said sometimes nothing fair will be said
I get the feeling the world’s not sane
I’m walking on a fault line, and my world’s come undone
I’m walking on a fault line, and I’m not the only one
Who’s walking on a fault line with no further to run
I’m walking on a fault line
And I know it’s a crime to be here with my fear as a sign
I walk the street like a scared little child incomplete
I may not live to be too old
Stare at my feet and just once in a while look to see
You by my side, my one last grip on reality
Please help me in from this cold, cold world
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9. |
Wishing Well
03:02
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WISHING WELL
©Billy Carl Mancini, Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
I don’t know why I don’t cry
The world is such a mess
I’m much too shy to get by
But I’m happy more or less
Heaven is not far
Throw your coin in the wishing well
Look up into the stars
See your life in the wishing well
I don’t know how we can hate
A person like ourselves
The time is now cast your fate
Into the wishing well
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10. |
When You Get Back
04:49
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WHEN YOU GET BACK
©Billy Carl Mancini, Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
Into the blue horizon you fly goodbye
And with the night wind rising I'll close my eyes
With my hopes and dreams in tow you go
When you get back I'm gonna say to you
I do love you
When you get back I'll never let you go
Oh no….oh no
Part of me goes wherever you go you know
Part of me shows whenever you're gone too long
Though it's been said in other love songs I've sung
Chorus
But tomorrow I will finally open up my eyes
Cause tomorrow love will finally float down from the lonely skies
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IT’S ALREADY DONE-Reprise -Instrumental-
©Ruby Bird & Billy Carl Mancini, Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
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12. |
Life in a Song
02:01
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LIFE IN A SONG
©Billy Carl Mancini, Bonk Zone Music ASCAP
One day we’ll live in a house in a field that is green
In the spring, yellow in fall
And everyday we will dance and we’ll sing
Til we’re gone, it won’t be long
Leaving our life in a song
Life in a song
It will go on and on when we’re gone
Life in a song
Life in a song
It will go on and on when we’re gone
Life in a song
Forever is long
Life is a song
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Bird Mancini Boston, Massachusetts
“…a cosmopolitan fusion…pop music in the most adventurous, inclusive sense of the term.” -The Boston
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Ruby Bird and Billy Carl Mancini, better known as BIRD MANCINI, Boston's acclaimed accordion/guitar rock duo/band features eclectic and at times a bit psychedelic rock with lush vocal arrangements, blues-tinged guitar, accordion, harmonica, and a variety of percussion, bells and whistles.
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