Don't Tell Me
(with Lucinda Williams)

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I'm penny wise and I'm dollar dumb
Colour blind and I'm razor numb
I'm hip-deep in duck-tail soup
Got the bursitis and the low down croup

You don't need to tell me all the things I've done
Don't tell me
Don't tell no one

Bad first impression and a lousy liar
I'm a country laugher and a big town crier
I'm the wrong way with a one-way ticket
the horse is losing then I'm bound to pick it

You don't need to tell me...

You can shake me break me hang me up on the wall
but if you can't say nothing nice
then darlin' please don't say anything at all

My eyesight's too short and my memory's too long
I can't see you coming 'til you're already gone
I got two raised eyebrows and a blue point of view
Read it in the paper so I know it's not true

You don't need to tell me....

Colin Linden-SOCAN-2001
Colin Linden Publishing/Warner-Chappell Music Canada