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lyrics

You’ve got the house that looks like a magazine spread,
And the job that pays like crime.
You’ve got the grand ideas busting out of your head,
And the manner so sublime,
But you don’t have me.
You don’t have me.
You don’t have me.

You’ve got detailed plans to conquer the world,
And the will to make them real.
Much too impatient to watch grit turn to pearl,
So you’ll take what you can steal.
But you can’t take me,
You can’t take me,
You don’t have me.

Just for a moment you were tender and real,
And through your eyes, the light was true.
But you preferred to mock the way that you feel,
And concentrate on well-to-do.
It hardly matters now—it was so long ago—
You were young and anxious—what did you know.
And no one told you things just go how they go.
You tried to run your life like some dog and phony show.
But you couldn’t run me,
You can’t run me,
You don’t have me.

credits

from Memoir (2007), released April 15, 2007
Sandy Asirvatham (later known as Sandhya), voice
Frank Russo, drums & percussion
Amy Shook, bass
Dani Cortaza, guitar
Jim McFalls, trombone

All music & lyrics by Sandhya Elizabeth Asirvatham BMI (c) 2007

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Sandhya Baltimore, Maryland

"Caustic rock diva" says SPLICE TODAY. Um, thanks? Sandhya/Sandy Asirvatham is a thinker and award-winning creative nomad. Always finding wit and joy in the darkness. Throwback to the all-around rock/pop artist. INNOCENT MONSTER hailed by Rolling Stone as a "soaring rock album" that "balances darkness and mirth."


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