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Carl Dean's Dilemma

from Imperfections by The Open Strings

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Based on a personal experience. Carl Dean is the name of Dolly Parton's husband. I reference Dolly's song "Jolene" with the phrase 'ivory skin and auburn hair". In that song, Dolly worries about her husband's attraction to another woman.

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So, I've met this girl with ivory skin and auburn hair
but the one I came with's standing watching, behind, over there.
And I've been gone a long "I'll be right back" now.
Alcohol and pheromones are mixed, I don't know how (but)

She's moving closer, almost touching sweat and sinew.
The question coming next determines if this will continue.
She must be feeling something as keen as we are being.
I look past her. She asks me who I'm seeing.

And I wanna go back in time.
I wanna be someone different:
Single, free, tonight.
I feel I want to lie
or ask her what's the difference?
We could fuck. I'd be forgiven.
We share a secret smile.
And I've got a decision.


I don't know how to properly end this conversation,
both women watching as I stumble through my hesitation:
"I like you. We coulda been." All that awkward gab.
My girl, she gets me. We jump into a waiting cab.

She's moving further, her shoulder's pressed to the cold glass.
I'm deathly curious of what she knows of what has past.
She must be feeling something as cold as she is being.
I check my phone. She asks me if I'm leaving her.

And I wanna go back in time.
I wanna be someone different:
Loyal, faithful, kind.
I feel I want to lie
Ah fuck it! What's the difference?
I've made my decision.
We share a secret smile
and all is forgiven.

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from Imperfections, released February 5, 2018

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