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If it were up to me I would just sing those songs of, you know, like
If you're on the rock climb of life and you just can't find another
Hand hold, and you're just starting to slip, and you're just thinking
Like, "What can I trust? What can I believe?" I'd love to find those
Songs, like those Bob Frankie songs that you can just hang onto
You know, and just kind of find your way up. And I only told you that
Because this next song, I realize I'm going to disappoint a lot of
You. I think this next song is funny. I've gotten some letters that
People don't like this song. But I like it a lot. So let me explain
To you just why I think this song is worth singing. It's an anti-
Song. I always take these songs so seriously and try to get all this
Theology into three minutes. This song is just written from a tidbit
Of conversation that I overheard in a restaurant. We were just
Waiting for the to-go food, you know, and I went back to get a mango
Nothing else to do. The man was very passionate about his mangoes
He said, "You are going to have this tonight, right?" I said, "Yeah
Yeah, right now." He said, "Good, because it'll be too ripe tomorrow
" I said, "Oh, okay." And we went up and, you know, tried to politely
Eat the mango, which is impossible, especially if you don't have
A knife. And there was a woman who was waiting for a friend to
Have dinner, and she knew that there were a couple empty seats
There in the lobby that she could come sit down on, but she was
A little uncomfortable because, you know, with the mango and
Everything, we were talking about old love and, you know, junior
High romance and steaming up car windows and all that. So eventually
She said, "That seat there, could I? I mean, I don't have to like
Talk about old love, do I?" "Oh, yes, yes, yes, you do. Sit."
She said, "I can't. I just can't. The heartbreak is just too recent
" And I said, "Oh, I'm sorry." And then she said, and this is the
Poetry that moved my heart. She said, "Yeah, you know when you
Love somebody and they dick you around, doesn't that really suck?"