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Not This Time

from Funny Day by Bird Mancini

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    Big harmonies, rock 'n roll accordion, guitars sometimes crunchy, sometimes mellow, visual melodies and lyrics all reflecting the acid trip of life. Comes with 8 panel booklet, lyrics, pics and beautiful artwork by Jane Smaldone.

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Billy Carl: I wrote this one way back when I was a teenager. Hence the sort of simple love song that it is. I used to write lyrics while working in a deli (on deli paper) while waiting for the next customer to order a pound of ham salad. The music somehow always stayed with me but we never recorded or played it out until now. Ruby felt that the lyrics sounded like a conversation between two lovers though it wasn't originally conceived that way. So we have Ruby & I switching off vocal lines and finally singing in harmony. Our studio drummer Mike Ahrens thought the slow middle part of the song sounded like Pink Floyd. Odd because I don't actually own a Pink Floyd album I'm embarrassed to say. But I still tried to conjure up David Gilmour when I played the solo.

Ruby: Just for the record, in a previous life I had a Pink Floyd album, and dug it.


lyrics

Not This Time
©Billy Carl Mancini (aka Bill Mason), Bonk Zone Music ASCAP

How many times
Will you run away
To your hideaway?
You won’t face your life today

How many times
Do I have to say
That I’m in love with you?
I love all the things that you do

You’re on my mind
Now more than ever baby
But I have cleverly
Slipped past your eyes

You should take time
To think more of me
I’m not fooled easily
Not this time

I’m not sure if I will ever understand you
But then that’s what life is all about
You said you’d love me for the rest of my life
And so I had no reason to doubt

I get the feeling that I’ll never understand you
But I just don’t want to live without
You make the past seem like it never really happened
And today there’s no reason for doubt

Not this time, not this time….

credits

from Funny Day, released March 1, 2007
Ruby Bird-vocals, accordion, harmonica, piano, tambourine, toys / Billy Carl Mancini-vocals, guitars, percussion / Clara Kababian-violin / Sven Larson-bass / Mike Ahrens-drums

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Bird Mancini Boston, Massachusetts

“…a cosmopolitan fusion…pop music in the most adventurous, inclusive sense of the term.” -The Boston Globe

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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