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You Don't Get To Like Me Now

from Buy Popular Demand by Brimaxian (Brian M. Weidemann)

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So many years,
I was single and searching and so seduced by your smiles.
Drank many beers,
I was flirting and falling and following you down the aisle.
Some would use more tact than I,
But you’d remember the fact that I
Was obsessed. I was lovesick, willing, able; and courting you put me through trials.

I was devout.
I was leaving you love-notes. You took them but not with the hints.
I asked you out.
You were dodging, excusing, and using me, teasing; but since
You deftly played the just-friends card,
A hefty bet, you busted, barred
By the odds. Now another Princess Charming has won this jackpot. I'm her prince.

Ever after, happily, I would be with my cares behind …
But then you caught up to your senses, and changed your mind.

You don't get to like me.
Unfair, unbalanced, to put it lightly,
You don't get to like me.
My heart sings out with someone new, and so you change your tune.
You've got the gall, and I just don't get you at all.
No justice in this world, anyhow.
You don't get to like me now.

You've come around,
And you're cute and you're sweet and you have not changed one bit,
Except you've found
That I'm cute and I'm sweet and now I'm just so perfect. But shit!
They say the timing is everything.
I'll take the nickel for every fling
With the girls too slow on uptake, stopped on dimes, whom I surpassed too quick on wit.

Ever after, happily, I've found the girl I've finally kissed.
Ignoring all the other superficials seeing what they'd missed.

They don't get to like me.
Unfair, unbalanced, to put it lightly,
They don't get to like me.
My heart sings out with someone true, and then they change their tune.
They've got the gall, and I just won't get them at all.
No justice in this world, any how.
They don't get to like me now.

©2015 Brian M. Weidemann

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from Buy Popular Demand, released November 27, 2015

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Brimaxian Portland, Oregon

A persistently versatile mix of guitars, keys, synth strings, and more, in the rock, acoustic, and alternative genres. Dense, poetic wordplay sung by a semi-amateur baritone. Wry wit, hot guitar licks, and the occasional augmented sixth chord.

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