Written, arranged and performed by Mike Cunningham.
Drums by Dom Hardy.
Production by Dom Hardy at Gracenote Studios, Dunfermline.

I met a girl who’s driving me crazy,
beautiful body and beautiful skin
But when I talk to her she comes on all bitchy,
she messed with my mind, I don’t know what to think

I’ve lost my appetite, my stomach is growling at me
I have to somaticize, my mind is as sore as can be.

A pre-mortem proves that I shouldn’t pursue her
I must lose this part of my dream
I have to forget about my former future
My heart takes one for the team

My fingers are tingling, my knees are all trembling,
My tongue is too big for my face
I’m drowning my sorrows to kill my emotions
I feel that I’m circling the drain

My whole body aches when the powder of sympathy works
It always happens when she’s out with somebody else

A pre-mortem proves that I shouldn’t pursue her
I must lose this part of my dream
I have to forget about my former future
My heart takes one for the team

I think I’m allergic to what I’m addicted,
My heartache is worse when we kiss
Love sickness does not come on its own, but
Nothing good’s coming from this

I need to save myself, I need to find the door
My friends think that I should dodge the bullet and go

A pre-mortem proves that I shouldn’t pursue her
I must lose this part of my dream
I have to forget about my former future
My heart takes one for the team

Copyright : Aug 2014 M. E. Cunningham Written : Aug2014/May 2015 M. E. Cunningham (Kirkcaldy)
Recorded : 2015 Kirkcaldy, 2024 Dunfermline

My Heart Takes One For The Team

The Emma Brown Song (Getalife.com) v15 
Words and music by Michael Cunningham
All instruments Michael Cunningham except Drums and additional guitar Dave Croxford
Produced by CroxRox

Emma Brown works in a hamburger store,
She knows it’s a dead end and she knows she wants more.
She’s taken a back seat in her life so far.
she’s waiting for something worth waiting for.

She wants a new life and she wants to have fun.
A near-life experience is as close as she’s come.
She lists all the changes she will make when she can
and dreams of creating getalife.com

Charlie was out on the tiles last night
He couldn’t remember what he went to forget
He went to college, now he works in a bar 
This is the ‘B-side’ of his life so far

He needs to take charge and to take some control,
some brightness, some volume and some vertical hold.
His life in the faff lane could be so turned around
He goes into work and he meets Ms Brown.

They make a machine where you get a new life
For 10 bucks a pop you get a stereotype
For a little bit extra you can go Larsonesque
Or keep your own life and change everyone else.

They make small people big and make big people small,
have a bad-hair day, or go do it all.
Glide the Grand Canyon and dive the Azores,
Explore the South Pole and climb the Monros

So now they’re ensconced in their own little world
their favourite restaurant and their favourite films
One or two games where they come out on top
All living sweetly in getalife.com

But all of their people work in hamburger stores
Or working in bars when they want to do more
They list all the changes they will make when they can
They dream of creating getalife.com

My Heart Takes One For The Team

Mike Cunningham

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