Name: Third Time
Duration: P00H04M38S
Description: This song has had almost as many incarnations as Doctor Who. This version was recorded in 1986 and features a real bass guitar. Most of the music recorded in this collection used a keyboard bass. The song is about being rejected so often that you get used to it and almost look forward to it.

Third Time

from Fish Stories Disk II by Chris Nelson

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This song has had almost as many incarnations as Doctor Who. This version was recorded in 1986 and features a real bass guitar. Most of the music recorded in this collection used a keyboard bass. The song is about being rejected so often that you get used to it and almost look forward to it.

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If you only knew the value
of what we had together
The price was too much to pay
Love turned to loneliness
and then into substitution
Words just got in the way
They tell me I do words really good
Make 'em rhyme, make 'em chime
So, why can't I tell you the truth?

{All my friends shake their heads and walk away disgusted
Knowing all too well I'm just gonna get my head busted
For the third time...}

I hear there's this thing
called freedom of choice
It causes indecision
And the cure to this is
a forced decision
opening this mental incision
Why can't I leave well enough alone?
Feeling at ease, life's a breeze
But nothing's ever that easy

{All my friends shake their heads and walk away disgusted
Knowing all too well I'm just gonna get my head busted
For the third time...}

Call me a wimp 'cause
I just sit here and stare
at a photograph of a brighter time
And even when I'm really calm
the storm keeps on a-raging'
on the end of a telephone line
Look at me and call me stupid
'cause I'm goin' down, I'm gonna drown
Shark, you've got my body tonight

{All my friends shake their heads and walk away disgusted
Knowing all too well I'm just gonna get my head busted
For the third time...}

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from Fish Stories Disk II, released September 21, 2013

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Chris Nelson Lebanon, Pennsylvania

Chris Nelson has been playing music for over 25 years and has written a large volume of songs. His sound is described as "Dark Folk" which is basically a unique mixture of folk, rock, and blues. He currently plays live as an acoustic guitarist while playing all instruments on his recordings. ... more

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