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james cook - thank you for your advice lyrics

(music starts:fender rhodes plays a melancholic chord progression, bass slides in with a melodic line, hi+hat keeps time. sweeping strings enter softly, building atmosphere. a gentle vibraphone chime accents.)

(lead vocal ad+lib)
mmm…yeah…

(background harmonies + softly)
ooooh…advice…

(verse 1)
you used to say it,clear as day, when things would start to slide
“two wrongs,child, they never make a single thing right.”
i’d watch the neighbors,thinkin’ they had found a better life
but the grass ain’t always greener,no, on the othеr side

(h+rns: gentle stabs)

i triеd to stop it, begged the clock, poured out tears until i dried
cry me a river,baby, yeah, but time just passed me by

(background harmonies)
passed him by…yeah…

(chorus 1)
thank you for your advice!
(harmonies:thank you!)
two wrongs don’t make it right!
(harmonies:don’t make it right!)
just the roll of dice…it’s either do or die!
(harmonies:do or die!)
you gonna ride…or get left beside!
(h+rns:sharp stab!)
thank you for your advice!
(harmonies:thank you!)
two wrongs don’t make it right!
(harmonies:don’t make it right!)
fighting over nickels and dimes…
(rhodes flourish)
just the sign…of these hard times…
(harmonies:sign of the times…)
(verse 2)
now look at me here,filled with fear, and wonderin’ where you are
all that sweet love shinin’bright, i was too blind by far

(background harmonies)
too blind…yeah…

i see the phone there, cold and bare, wishin’ it would ring
if i could hear your voice again,oh, what sweet joy you’d bring

(h+rns: mournful, long note)

i’d tell you “darlin’, i was wrong,” pour out my soul so true
how much i love you,miss you so… if only you just knew

(rhodes plays a sad, descending line)

(chorus 2)
thank you for your advice!
(harmonies:oh, thank you!)
two wrongs don’t make it right!
(harmonies:never make it right!)
just the roll of dice…it’s either do or die!
(harmonies:gotta try!)
you gonna ride…or get left beside!
(h+rns:strong stab!)
thank you for your advice!
(harmonies:yeah, thank you!)
two wrongs don’t make it right!
(harmonies:no, they don’t!)
fighting over nickels and dimes…
(drums emphasize”dimes”)
just the sign…of these hard times…
(harmonies:hard times…)
(bridge)
but i’d be a fool…to asks the heavens up above…
(harmonies:ooooh above…)
for just one moment…one more moment of your time…
(harmonies:your precious time…)

(music starts to build slowly again underneath)

tears may fall like rain… fallin’ heavy from the sky…
but i refuse to break down now…i refuse to cry…
(harmonies:refuse to cry…)

(drums re+enter softly, building intensity)

let’s not say goodbye… feels so cold, so final, friend…
i hold onto the hope…that i will see you once again…
(harmonies:see you again…)

(music swells dramatically into the final chorus)

(chorus 3 + climactic)
thank you for your advice!
(harmonies:thank you!!)
two wrongs don’t make it right!
(harmonies:they don’t!!)
just the roll of dice…it’s either do or die!
(harmonies:do or die!)
you gonna ride…or get left beside!
(h+rns:blaring)
thank you for your advice!
(harmonies:oh, thank you!)
two wrongs don’t make it right!
(harmonies:never make it right!)
fighting over nickels and dimes…
(harmonies:nickels and dimes!)
just the sign…of these hard times!
(harmonies:sign of the times!)
(outro)
thank you…for your advice…
(harmonies:mmm… advice…)
two wrongs…never make it right…
(harmonies:never… make it right…)
i’ll hold on…to what you said…
(harmonies:hold on…)
until that day…ahead…
(harmonies:that day…)
my friend…
(harmonies:my friend…)

(lead vocal + spoken, tenderly, over fading music)
yeah…i’ll see you again…

(final chord: sustained by strings, rhodes, and a gentle vibraphone chime. fades to silence.)

by james cook

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