I'm a Tourist

from I'm Standing in Front of You Saying "Yes!" by Sean at the Hotel

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I’ve been slumming it in Europe
I’m not like other tourists. English and French
songs all sounding like Beethoven
Italians in Lederhosen makes fashion sense
Everything near is far
the Autobahn’s
a road that leads to Rome

Hack me into little pieces
Lest I write another line
There’s no going going back
Hackney Hackney Hackney cab

West Eurasian Summer taught me
from Malta up to Orkney you’ll always see
Matadors around the maypole
and Pearly Kings on the payroll in boulangeries
champagne topped with beer
Gondoliers
who punt in Amsterdam

Hack me into little pieces
Lest I write another line
There’s no going going back
Hackney Hackney Hackney cab

I’m not moving
(moving on)
I’m guessing
(dressing up)
Not moving
(moving on)
I’m going nowhere
all the things I borrow
I won’t give them back tomorrow
I won’t give them back the next day
or the next

Put the Shakespeare in the shredder
Poetic and Prose Edda into the fire
grind the stained glass into powder
and let the Eiffel Tower sink in the mire
amnesia’s the magic word
and don’t be scared
there’s nature to exploit  

Hack me into little pieces
Lest I write another line
There’s no going going back
Hackney Hackney Hackney cab
Hack me into little pieces
Lest I write another line
There’s no going going back
Hackney Hackney Hackney cab

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from I'm Standing in Front of You Saying "Yes!", released May 5, 2023
Written by Sean Keogh

Vocals, programming and production by Sean Keogh
Mixing and mastering by Jaitay

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