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Dennis

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Oh Dennis 03:55
I want to get to know someone Just got to get to know someone Called Dennis, Oh Dennis I’m not sure why but it could be cause Your name’s derived from the God of Wine Dionysus, Dionysus That’s not to say our friendship would Be based entirely on booze Oh Dennis, Oh Dennis Look - here he comes! And sure enough it came to pass I met you one day in the park Playing tennis, Oh Dennis We played three sets but we didn’t know After which games we should change ends Oh Dennis Oh Dennis Look here, here you come Look here, here you come Look here, here we are Look here, here we come Look here, here we are And off we go! I want to get to know someone Just got to get to know someone Called Dennis, Oh Dennis With Hopper, Quaid and Rodman too We’ll have ourselves a Barbecue Oh Dennis, Oh Dennis I want to get to know someone Just got to get to know someone I want to get to know someone Just got to get to know someone Called Dennis
2.
STAY OUTTA TRUBS! Let’s go! Down to Gatwick, watching runways Two pound fifty on the old Ten-P machines Laugh at names like Croydon Fernandes Kranz unt Voller from the Human Centipede Geoff Capes, Ken Bates, Taking time to tell the tales of Timbuktu Hit some pubs, stay outta trubs We never pull unless it’s an old ex-girlfriend Air cello, oh hello Play pencil piano over old Raspberries records Listen to vinyl, from start to finish Minus Tirith, we wrote to the FA To announce our retirement from International Football oh lord how our parents wept When we told them we wrote to Morrisons To complain about some shell in a Scotch Egg Look here, here we come Look here, here we come That’s how it was for quite a while Playing champ for 18 hours a day Working part-time, drinking red wine I swear to god everything was A OK But then suddenly out of nowhere I got a text from Dennis saying he Had met a girl called Sophie Buttercup And he said that he was so in love with her Look here, here she comes Look here, here she comes I dropped my phone Left all alone In my home All alone Look here, here she comes Look here, here she comes Let’s go! Down to Gatwick, watching runways Two pound fifty on the old Ten-P machines Laugh at names like Croydon Fernandes Kranz unt Voller from the Human Centipede Geoff Capes, Ken Bates, Taking time to tell the tales of Timbuktu Hit some pubs, stay outta trubs We never pull unless it’s an old ex-girlfriend
3.
It’s just not the same Watching dog fights online all on your own of a Sunday No it’s not the same Being too competitive when playing table tennis Watching Jason Statham Movies on your own is not quite as ironic As when we watched them Laughing outloud together eating a Vienetta Even if when I Met Sophie in our local for the first time I knew that It was quite clear She was undeniably lovely and very homely I still miss the way We would watch Master and Commander and roar a lot Just promise you’ll always Watch your Hornblower DVD once a year and think of me At a loss without my friend Dennis I spiralled into a minor depression which I attempted to self-medicate by eating a chorizo and goats cheese omelette every morning. Periodically I would borrow my father’s Toyota Avensis and drive to a National Trust property whereupon I would find myself surrounded by even more young couples. The smell of pregnancy was genuinely over-powering. But I met a man Who can only be described as an alcohol-fuelled Peter Pan. We filled a van with guitars and percussion and headed to obscure German cities to perform. The trip reminded him of his friend’s mother who he Described as looking like an angry German school boy who has been left out in the cold.
4.
A couple of years went by and one day I awoke Put on my favourite jeans and then I had a smoke My phone buzzed in my pocket I thought “fancy that” Dennis wants to see me, says he wants to chat It was good to see him, can’t deny I’d missed him Glad I didn’t kiss him, but we hugged like men. Good men. Turns out he’d asked Sophie to man up and marry him She’d wept and said yes and then he’d cooked her a roast din I have to say that I was so pleased and amused I was to be the best man, how could I refuse? Can’t believe he’d asked me, and done it so nicely Thought about the stag do, Prague would be the venue Untold ladies dancing, then a spot of lancing Lots of beards and roaring. Oh the bliss. Hanging out again with Dennis. Weddings. Children. Picnics. New Bathrooms. Cycling holidays in the Ardeche. Birthdays. Christmas. My speech went down a treat people physically laughed The maid of honour even crept up and stole my heart I asked her what her name was then got down on my knees Cause she smiled and winked and said her name was Denise I fell in love right there and glided round the dancefloor Whispering in my ear she told me what to live for: “Right here in the present there is no mistaking Time is of the essence life is what you make it” Right here in the present There is no mistaking Time is of the essence Life is what you make it my friends

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A budding bromance is inadvertently derailed by an undeniably lovely girl called Sophie Buttercup.

Written, performed and recorded by Paul Coltofeanu.

Artwork by Ryan Say
freeswimswimfree@gmail.com

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released February 20, 2012

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