Happy New Year 1/1/97

I just wanna say Happy New Year, baby!

I just wanna say Happy New Year, baby!

Let by-gones be by-gones, the show must go on

I'm just happy that you're here!

I just wanna say I love you, my love!

I'm not just saying it cos I'm drunk, so pissing drunk

We all had our ups and downs,

let's hope our team scores a touchdown

I'm just happy that you're mine

I'm so happy that you're mine, my love

and when you're near I feel so fine

Congenial wunderkind

This year, I will find

I love your beauty and your mind

Tomorrow Is Another Day 4/22/00

I never wanted to be alone

But it just happens to be that way

Tomorrow is another day

I never wanted to stay at home

But it just happens to be that way

Tomorrow is another day

Barhopping every weekend to get laid

But I'm no desperado

The girls just see me the same

They tell me the same old story

I've got a man, but don't you worry

You got the looks and the brains

Mucho tequila en la cabeza

But I'm no desperado

I know they all love me the same

I see the erratic buffoon inside of me

Turn to a wiseman, good gawd geez

I've found my epiphany

Fidget now and maybe later tonight

But I'm no desperado

I've got the blues yet I see red

Hyprocrisy is my default drive

I know I'm sick of my nine lives

And that's when I wake up and see the light

Where there's a will there is a way

Aspirations gone to dismay

I don't give in to arbitrary sway

Gloomy blue monday blues

turn the pages of tomorrow's news

My head is spinning, I'm off to sleep

Playing Hard to Get 10/5/96

Take your eyes off me

So said she

How hard love can be

when it is maligned with a cavity

I just want to be

your friend, you see

Not asking for a romantic encounter

Go away...

You just can't play ball in my major league

Just tow away

So I leave

I leave

Leave her be

Snob society

I met another in a church

Bird on a perch

Was she darling sweet

Was it the end of my search?

Well, I joined the choir

Hoping to get inspired

She was the soprano right in front of me

But nothing materialized

A mere platonic ghetto jive

Misconstrued, I let her win

Let alone my sigh

Met another in a bar, cliche

I say, "Bu ya a drink," You say, "No way."

Jukebox jolts a song

She likes the group

Talk for hours I'm duped

Drunken boy on a stool

He plays the fool

Drunk as a french girl's grapey foot

Asks me if we met I know we did

Eleven years before, oh what a stupendous bore

Nowadays writing songs

Gray day so long

I stand trial with the biased judge

A little karoake and pool

We all follow the rule men get so sick of our joystick toys

Please girlies, give us a break

Cut the mindgames

What can we do when we radically lose

Well, time and time again I see a woman

Walking past, swinging her hippie hips

Too shy to glance her stare

She walks towards me, but I don't even dare

I'm too conditioned to lose I shall not care

You may think I'm chicken

because of my curse

But who can balme me

As I strum my Rickenbacker

What I choose is not my choice

The girls are difficult

It's me they avoid

My fixation to them is fading away

Now my friend thinks I am now gay

Well, what is so wrong with today?

Oh!!!

"Stop sending me silly notes.

You think you're Cyrano

I'll give you a bloody nose."

If you strike a pose

It's either win or lose.

SOLITAIRE 8/3/00

Ah! Don't be scared to be so cruel

It's better than ending up as the fool

Petty mindgames and her played-out schemes

By tonight she's gonna be your wet dream

So yer woman is in your hair

You're tired of playing solitaire

I know that you're gonna be cool tonight

Yeah I know you got a one track mind

Looking at the chicks and then going blind

Why can't you be a cool cat like me?

Trade in your spaced out mind and buy my congeniality

Mmmm... So she's so pretty and so divine

Daydreaming about her like she's squeazing your lime

I know that you're gonna be sick tonight

So you got her number

Bigwig deal

She's gonna use you and then give you that blase schpeal

You got money?

She's gonna take it all

Crash your fancy car

and blow you at the shopping mall

I've been there, done that, platonic trysts

Schizo paranoia, but hell, no fits

Nomad, wanderlust, lovelorn

Sullen sordid Sid and looking at porn

She's a dream and it stays that way

Playing hard to get is gonna make you dismayed

I know that you're gonna be cool tonight

Decade is gone

Well, what is really wrong?

Lost your mind, bourgeois living and too damn strong

I've got the brains and some hidden brawn

To avoid the nasty words and fend off Dear Johns

It's not too late to use your sick pate

So come on, sober up, and get back on track

So what? Still no girlie in your sack

Ain't no loser and no pawn

Savoir faire is me and I am the Don

Internet baby is she?

Well, get off the Zoloft and lose that virtuality

I know that you're gonna be cool tonight

She Doesn't Want to Be Disturbed 1994

She doesn't want to be disturbed (yeah)

She doesn't want to be disturbed (oh no)

She doesn't want to be disturbed

She has no time for me anymore

When I see her with other men

It's like she never came

Came into my life and now she's gone

I cry, my eyes are sore

But it hurts me even more

When my baby shuts out the world with the slam of the door

I try to telephone

You said, "No, no, leave me alone!"

You gave me the blue meanies all night long

I dream of you every day

You left me in a daze

I guess love has a right to be betrayed

Find me someone who's lonesome

A girl full of life

Patient like a flower

with starry,humble eyes

Navgate my life

At times, I just wanna die

But lift me up, Lord, to your higher skies

Lift me up, Lord to your higher skies

Since you left, my love has died

No girl have I eyed

I work all day like it's my bread and wine

I know I'm miserable

Without you, the earth is dull

And so, my love, I'll just have to leave you alone

And so, my love, I'll just have to

Leave you alone

Internet Baby 5/14/97

I thought that I'd never meet any girl on the Internet

But timely you came to me, unaware of anything yet

We talked, emailed, and had our ups and downs

Just like a real boy and girl living way across the towns

But I never even met you... wooh!

Internet baby, Internet baby

Will I ever meet you?

Internet baby, my Internet baby

Your sweet words are so true

Take me to your isle...

Yeah, you're younger than me

And I gotta let you grow

But otherwise we get along

And for your age you're very wise

I admit it's different on the Net

unaware of how you look

Don't you wish you met me there

You staring at me while I read a book

You make me smile even though it's words!

Internet baby, Internet baby

Will I ever meet you?

Internet baby, my Internet baby

Everynight I pray for you

Internet baby, sail away with me

Across the oceans, fields and streams

Dive in the ocean, pick up the corral

Maybe only in me dreams

I never wanted to

Make myself believe it's true

But me and you are real people

Not just words across the screen

I think that you and me

Better live real life lives

But I'd love to someday meet you

And say hello to you, too

Chat with me, chat with me

I love you virtually

Suddenly Heaven 1994

Walking on the pavement

Shoes touching the lines

Hearts & souls in the city

Living to just get by

Whether you're riding on the train

Or cruising in your car

We may be going fast

But on foot we go far

When we're walking

We feel God's sunshine

On the backs of our minds

We feel pleasant

Suddenly heaven

Awaits us when we're doing time

Jesus save our weary souls

We're under your tender care

When the world is full of chao

s We shouldn't even stop and stare

Blessed is the man who's upstanding

in the house of wicked men

He delights in the Lord

He's like a tree in the wind

No One 11/24/92

Once upon a dream and gone

Laughing at these silly songs

Why do you do that?

Why do you act so bitchy?

I look at you a different way

Maybe I lost my clever say

Day of pain

I can't go on with this game

You see me

Lying in the rainy gutter

I am the sea

Underwater stutter

And you see, you see...

No one can mend my pain

No one can see my shame

Just when I become optimistic

I lose my point of interest

But I'll find someone

Yeah, I'm not alone

Many heartbreaks come and gone

Still, I lose that magic wand

I look around

On the ground, just trash

Pin the tail on me veil

See me, like a jackass fail

Oh where? Where has my doggie gone?

Fishing bachelor

In the sea of splendor

Empty net Loneliness thereafter

It isn't me, is it me?

Now I'm alone, and I still feel the same

Two bored couples slide on by

I'm sure I'm lost without good natured people

How long will I be alone?

Just going home

Hopes and Dreams 4/02/02

I wanna go where no one has gone on to

Won't you take me there

I wanna be where I envisioned to be

You know where I want to be

It will take years

Blood, sweat, and tears

But you know hard work means gold

The sun shines here for another day

Each has gone to their own way

But it's me that stays on straight lines

This little seed will grow and grow

To know is to be complete

The grass is greener everywhere

With your mind in heavenly care

A life full of hopes and dreams

Nine Saved 10/31/01

The first love I ever felt

Was Jesus, the love I held

Now it's about time I gave back

Lovelorn was I not too long ago

No one I eyed, no one I knew

But now I look at the past

And I felt I haven't missed out much

Because what really matters

Is that I grew

You don't know what life's all about

'Til you hit matrimony

You don't know the concept of money

'Til you make some

If love is a vacancy

Then fill in the void

To avoid it now is like losing stocks

And bonds

There's a silver lining in every cloud

I'm gonna think positive

Gonna be a go-getter

Use what I've learned

And mass market it now

I'm gonna grab life by its horns

I'm gonna rely on the guidance of my Lord

I'm no quitter

Be sweet, not bitter

Is not life a fortune when you find your niche

Isn't nine saved when it's time you stitched?

Time will come when you realize

That cynicism was just a test of faith

Move on to big and better things -- oh yeah

Move on to big and better things...

The first love I ever felt

Was Jesus, the love I held

Now it's about time I gave back

The Housemartins 8/10/02

Sadness prevails, commonfolk

Lost intentions, hope is choked

Wishing for a richer life

Reaching for this dream on the morning light

Sounds of youth clearly gone

Vast new plight lingers on

Hoping for a new life

To look beyond this horrid strife

See them drive their luxury cars

Wish it had been me

Dire straits and skid row

befriended me

Wishing for a better life

Holding on to this restless night

This is why I have come

To ask you for a loan

Thank you for the wine, Mr. Housemartin

If only it were really true

Marry your daughter?

I know it's a get rich scam

I've seen love, but not like this

Blackmail me out from poverty land?

Sexy Legs 1/8/97

Sexy legs, walking past me

Oooh, wonderful is she

Smell of Chanel No5

Can't resist undressing her in my mind

But the twinkle of her eye

I'm sure its not not right

Lusting her is a sin

But I'm sure she'll make a good wife

She sits down, orders cappuccino

Alone by herself

She is single

Never flirt around women

But I know I'm doing no harm

If I mingle with her

Schelpped to her table

"Mind if I sit?"

Light conversation

To see if we fit

Tighten up my tie

Because she's getting loose

Temptation of the cleavage

She's tying me on her noose

Micromini on her tight body

Enthralling my emotions

Dressed so seductively

I find her more spiritual

than she appears to be

The naked truth comes out when she is clothed

Lolita

My little Lolita

My passion, sun and rain

How long have I been in love

God will mend my pain

Look into my eyes

Tell me what you see I know you have a man

But do you love me?

I long to kiss you tenderly

Your hair tickling my nose

Two arms to hold me

Something I never felt before

Lolita, so sincere

Lolita, doe-eyed deer

Lolita

Goodbye after all these years

Don't talk to anyone

Because you belong to me

You have to accept this, my love

My jealously

I dream of you each night

My face madly ashamed

Though you look so young

You're my immortal flame

Sweet nymphet face

And twinkle eyes

Lolita gives me

Sweet little lullabyes

I hear he touched you

So I shot him in the back

I let no one ruin my obsession

My love's one track.

Highway Madness

Stick shift gear in control

The blue suit man in his patrol

Riding high but running low

Highway madness is so slow

Gasoline smell in the air

Engine high and mighty like an electric chair

I'm down and out but the bugger's bowl

Doing 55 is so dull

Lookit the dude flashing his middle

Get yer machine gun to blow his fiddle

I'm the king of the road I declare

Anyone who disses me will lose his hair

In the sky I let it all fly

Babe, I'm dazed, kiss me shy

I'm riding with a babe in a car

Hope that Rambo don't make a mar

Opossum entrails on the road

Pretty soon you see smears,

looks like a toad

Blue sky, apple pie, let it all loose

Stick it to me babe, I'm gonna cruise

I'm in Texas, man, I'm with my gal

Baby, baby, babe, say yer name is Sal?

Well change your name to 'Elle',

don't break ma spell

We're riding in the car raising hell

Say along the road we meet a hiker

We say, "No, man, we only take bikers."

I see my baby sweat beneath her shirt

You should see this ticket's skirt!

As this story draws to a close

Me and Elle talk about marriage, I give a rose

We end up with a kid, I love Elle so

Highway madness I owe it to yo

I say running down fast, coming slow

Tripping the day away I go

Hiphop, don't stop, hippie chicky poo

Me and my girl we roar down BMW

Phone Stalker 4/15/01

He dials her digits

The girls always fidget

Kinky talker

The phone stalker

Banned by the pizzeria

Cos he harassed the chicks there

His numbers were similar to mine

I almost got banned, not so fine!

Consummate loner

An erratic sort

Always suspicious

A bleeding introvert

Criminal justice major by day

A security guard by night

I think he should see some shrinks

For they're scared, hell, allright?!

You tell me to get her number for you

Frankly, you find your own woman!

Not my style to do your hooking for ya

Especially when you're covered with disguised sin

"Are you a wild girl?

Whatcha wearing tonight?

Can I get a date witchu? It'll be allright."

The judge insanely exasperated

Said, "I can't believe your lack of insight!"

The jurisdiction was laid out

The verdict? Guilty allright!

"I was just trying to get a date."

Lame-ass try

2 years in the slammer

Serves you right, you jammer

The bailiff cuffs him

Paul lets out a cry

Judge says, "Get a life!"

"Mommy, I don't wanna die!"

He dials her digits

Behind bars with six midgets

No more calls, cell phone barred

Phone stalker, sweet talker

Mocker, mock her

Phone stalker

Hello, hello?

You handcuffed shoplifters

Now the cuffs on you

Hope ya get raped

By the felons in blue

Phone stalker

Sweet talker

Shrink 3/16/01

Tried viewing the past

Oh no more, no more

Try looking forward

To even the score

What replaced adverts?

And tamed the perverts?

A time to outgrow

And change what you sow

Think

Don't sink

You are your own shrink

Mother invention

A child prodigy

From recluse to norm

Now, take on the storm

But what was lost?

And what was maimed?

My tongue now tamed

ECT brain

Crazy now sane

Move on and ascertain

wisdom now gained

Think

Don't sink

You are your own shrink

Playboy Joe 1/30/99

I set my goals yesterday

I'm a new man

I left work with no delay

Do they understand?

Is it God's plan?

Or is it sand?

I met that girl yesterday

She's loyal and so sweet

But darling, am I yer man?

Or succumbed to defeat?

Take it slow

Playboy Joe

She's a dream

She's so keen

Gotta find a new job

And go on with me life

Gotta cut loose and not hesitate

And look for wife

They love me,

and I as well

I'm going to heaven,

not hell

Speak and spell,

time will tell

Time will tell

I don't want to go away

To be swallowed in a flood

Don't wanna join my friend

In his cesspool of blood

Long John Silver

Silver sliver

Long John Silver

Sliver bitter

Bittersweetly

Sweetly bitter

Seamstress mistress

Waitress woman

Woman waiting

Me, impatient

Lingo bingo

I don't fall...

Telephone call banning

I stopped calling her

Forget about her

and just do my own thing

Advice from sister

darling sister

Sister miss her

blister sister

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All songs by John Shin. Produced, mixed, mastered, engineered, and performed by John Shin.

6 string Rickenbacker 330, 12 string Rickenbacker 330, 12 string Rickenbacker 360, Gibson SG, Fender, Epiphone, Boss Dr. Rhythm DR-670, bass, keyboards, vox, etc. by John Shin.

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