(You Just) Walk on By

from Mongoose by Mead Lake's Most Wanted

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I saw you in line at the drug store
I saw you waiting for the train
I bought you this cheap plastic mug for
Your fancy bottle of champagne

I would knit mittens for your cats
I bet all your kittens would love gloves like that
My letters are written like a diplomat
But you say don’t bother to try

You just walk on by
Like you’re on a diet and I’m a french fry
How I wish we’d embrace like two octopi
But you just walk on by

I like to watch French movies
You’d like to float down the Seine
You think the sixties were groovy
And I think pretty much the same

I’d grow you a garden of forty acres
You know the point guard in the LA Lakers
I’m so glad you work hard as an undertaker
Cause without you, I want to die

You just walk on by
Like you’re drinking beer and I’m a mai tai
I’m pretty good looking for someone cross-eyed
But you just walk on by

You just walk on by
Like I was a fish and you were the sky
Like I’m in the Empire and you’re a Jedi
Like I was an ant and you’re a samurai
Like I was Mel Gibson and you’re a rabbi
How I wish we’d embrace like twins’ nuclei
But you just walk on by

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from Mongoose, released March 14, 2014
Baker: Drums. Beam: Guitar. Best: Banjo. Eckert: Bass. Nevsimal: Vox.

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