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Thread #79719   Message #3259506
Posted By: Jim Dixon
18-Nov-11 - 02:45 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Songs by Lou & Peter Berryman
Subject: Lyr Add: ACME FORGETTING SERVICE (L & P Berryman)
I'm no good with chords, but I can do the first step, which is to post the lyrics (copied from L&PB's web site: http://www.louandpeter.com/alllwlyr.pdf.)


ACME FORGETTING SERVICE
©2000 Lou & Peter Berryman
From the albums "House Concert" (2000) and "Love Is the Weirdest of All" (2004).

1. D'you lie awake at night, afraid and upset,
Hounded by something you would rather forget?
And you can't shake it off whatever you do—
Give us a call, and we'll forget it for you.
If there's a mem'ry that is causing you pain
By going round and round and round in your brain,
And you're a wreck because you can't sleep at all,
Put your pajamas on and give us a call.

CHORUS: For if your past is making you nervous,
And you don't know what to do,
Call the Acme Forgetting Service:
One-eight-hundred-something!-two-two-two.

2. Once every evening we delete all our files.
Our Post-It notes are in incredible piles.
There's only disappearing ink in our pens,
And all our pencils they erase at both ends.
If there's a song you can't get out of your head,
There's always suicide, but call us instead.
We will forget it which will free up your brain.
Then we'll replace it with this lovely refrain: CHORUS

3. Our politician package goes pretty fast,
In which we work on both your future and past.
For one small fee we'll disremember for you
Your indiscretions and your promises too.
[These days the Democrats they need us for sure,
And Libertarians to deal with the poor,]*
But those Republicans they haven't called yet.
They have no conscience; they don't have to forget. CHORUS


* This line changes sometimes. For the last few years we've been singing:
"These days the Democrats call now and then
Tryin' to forget that it could happen again..."