You in the Bag

from Play the Part by Phil and the Flying Leap

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lyrics

The moon is high
The bottle’s dry
It’s time to speak it plain:
Do we call our long engagement
By a legal tender name?

We’ve two low scores
In social mores
We shelvers of the book.
We ain’t read it, but we’re here to take a look:

Would we give our hearts completely
Crying out and running blind
Like a Marco Polo gunning toward the wall?

Do we dance it oh-so-sweetly
Tangled in the ties that bind
In a perfect pas-de-deux before we fall?

The hour is drawing nearer, dear,
To settle things in stone
And cement the slack foundation
Of our humble little home
If bells and rings and squeaky springs
Remind us what we’re not
Remember what’s in our lot
I’m grateful for what I’ve got

I've got you in the bag already
I've got you in the bag already
Am I beaming with pride?
Have we nothing to hide?
I've got you in the bag already

I've got you in the bag already
I've got you in the bag already
May my spirit retain
Half the love it sustains
I've got you in the bag...

My waves of words collect and curl
And crash right where you stand
Inundating the remainder
Of co-habitable land
We beat the horse to death, of course,
And dragged him through the flood
(Do be careful we don't track in any mud)

Do I stand my ground obliquely
Here behind the crooked line
That my toe so woefully dragged through the soil?

Do I state it more than meekly
From the corners of my mind
In the shuffling of another mortal coil?

With each new leg the question's begged
What are we boys to do?
Do we pay back fifty/fifty
From the debt we both accrued?

And if our fifty/fifty's really more like ninety/ten
Take ninety from me again...

Did it flounder and die
When the ocean ran dry?
I've got you in the bag
I've got you in the bag
I've got you in the bag
Already

credits

from Play the Part, released December 10, 2021
Produced by Forrest Pettengill and Phil Berman
Arranged by Brandon Wilkins
Engineered by Joel Edinberg at Q Division Studios and Zumix
Mixed by Noah Georgeson
Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering, Boston, MA
Assistant Mastering Engineer Maria Rice

Phil Berman - Vocals, Music and Lyrics
Forrest Pettengill - Upright bass
Sue Buzzard - Violin

Michael Valdez - Piano

Rachel Panitch - Violin
Anna Stromer - Viola
Valerie Thompson - Cello

Brandon Wilkins - Clarinet, bass clarinet, oboe
Rachel Blumenthal - Flute
Joel Edinberg - Tenor and baritone saxophone, clarinet
Jon Weidley - Trumpet
Pete Fanelli - Trombone
Anne Howarth - Horn in F

Dave Brophy - Drums

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New Americana Vaudeville music made proudly in Massachusetts, USA.

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