("Ban​-​er​-​jee​.​" Just Like It's Spelled​.​)

by Jay Banerjee

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I don't mean to insult your intelligence or anything, but just to be sure, when you buy the full album from Bandcamp for $9.90, you get...well, the full album, i.e. not only the three tracks you can play on this page.

Yes, the album is also available on Itunes for the same price, but you're already here. Just save yourself a step. It's not like Steve Jobs is going to miss your quarter, especially not anymore.

Side 1:

Dear Donna
Long Way Home
Just Another Day
The Boy in Hand
Kate

Side 2:

Lindsay
Leave Me Alone
Your Beating Heart
See Her Face
No Way Girl

credits

released 18 October 2010

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tags: no one cares that i live in New York

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about

Jay Banerjee is the only reason you shouldn't kill yourself just yet.

His songs are so ... more painstakingly crafted and so dubiously executed.

His rare talent for pretending to be renowned has taken him around the world: Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland are but three of the four locales he's had the pleasure of not being welcome back to.

Writing in the third person conveys legitimacy, he hopes. less

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Track Name: Dear Donna
By the time you read this letter
You'll know that things have changed, well they've changed for the better
I'm sure you're worried 'bout telling your mother
Although we both know she'll be pleased to discover
I'm gone

Why did I ask you to tell me your secret?
You lied and played dumb 'til you started to shriek it
I took your hand and I said we would make it
I tried so damn hard, now I know I can't take it

I'm sure that this will hurt you but I guess you'll carry on
Dear Donna I am gone

Though I leave I don't want you pretending
You're the one to blame for this unhappy ending
'Cause I'm a man and it shouldn't be tough to
Ignore all the pain when I'm saying "I love you"

I thought I could forgive you but I guess I'm not that strong
Dear Donna I am gone

And I hope that you'll believe me when I say
I care for you more than ever girl and I wish that I could stay
I don't know if you could see what I've become
But in the face I think of night and day, I see only what you've done

Dry your tears and get someone who'll suit you
If he's the real one, here's to his and your future
I hope you'll grant my last request
And please give me a kiss before I'm laid to rest

I thought we were forever but I guess that was too long
Dear Donna I am gone

I told you life goes on, girl, but I guess that I was wrong
Dear Donna I am gone

Dear Donna I am gone
Track Name: Long Way Home
Born in Louisiana
Or maybe Indiana
I can never seem to keep it straight

Brushed your daddy's mares
Went to harvest fairs
Made the cheerleading team that was third in the state

Were you baking bread
When it hit your head
If you left your kind it might be fun

You came to New York City
Seeking cash and pity
Now you wish you could even find enough of just one

Those who make it on their own, pretty girl
Alone, pretty girl, are few
And it's a long, long way back home, pretty girl
Home, pretty girl, for you
Say I don't know so you'll just have to show what a country girl can do
But I sure know it's a long way home for you

Why'd you leave the charm
Of your cozy farm
Where you'd tie the knot to some hick slob?

Wanna tread the boards
Win some Guild awards
Or maybe you even thought you'd get a real job?

Like a dress-up doll
With a goofy drawl
You pout your lips to make the sale

But I've had my fun
Darling now we're done
And my wallet is zipped to your prying pink nails

Well this life just ain't your own, pretty girl
A loan, pretty girl, that's due
And it's a long, long way back home, pretty girl
Home, pretty girl, for you
Say I don't know just how far you'll go to see your troubles through
But I sure know it's a long way home for you

Those city lights ain't quite as warm as you once dreamed
A life of quiet nights don't look nearly so bad as how it once seemed
Think I'll deliver when those tears roll down your cheek?
Gonna cry a river, girl, or will you never get past a backwater creek?

Three o'clock
I wake to a knock
Coming steady and weak upon my door

Blinkin' blue doe eyes
You apologize
Like it hurts you to speak but there isn't much more

Done things you won't say
Just to make your way
Praying for some slack 'cause you were wrong

Well you broke my will
Take this hundred bill
And get the first bus back to where you belong

Now you take a nasty tone, pretty girl
Like a grown pretty girl can't do
Well it's a long, long way back home, pretty girl
Home, pretty girl, for you
Now you're all sore and screaming you know more than you know I ever knew
But I sure know it's a long way home for you

Now you start to bawl that I know nothing at all but you know that isn't true
'Cause I sure know it's a long way home for
Sure know it's a long way home for
Sure know it's a long way home for you
Track Name: Kate
Kate I think the problem is you've got too many feelings
Taking time for every passing thought, your eyes on the ceiling
You like me too much to let me wait or tell me you'll fake it
And if that don't melt my heart my darling Kate I think it'll break it

So it's just some fantasy
But oh why can't you see?
It doesn't matter much to me

If you don't feel the way I feel about you girl
That ain't what I'm asking you to do
'Cause you could never know the way I feel about you darling
It's something I just can't communi-

Kate I think the problem is you've got too many feelings
You can take my heart just don't get caught and then it ain't stealing
If you don't want me to waste my time on such an endeavor
Love me hate me just say that you're mine then go feel whatever

So I'm heading for a fall
But I'm ready for your call
'Cause I don't really care at all

If you don't feel the way I feel about you girl
I lose your letdowns somewhere 'round your lips
And even if you know the way I feel about you darling
It's something you just can't recipro-

Kate I think the problem is you've got too many feelings
Pick apart the ways you love me not it's so unappealing
You like me too much to understate or let me mistake it
And if that don't melt my heart my darling Kate I think it'll break it

It doesn't matter much to me

But is there any way I can
Get you to understand
The way I feel about you?
Should I take it like a man
When I'd die at your command
Before I'd have to live without you?

So Kate if you don't feel the way I feel about you girl
We can make it up as we go along
So now you say you know the way I feel about you darling
It's something you don't have to complicate
It's something you don't have to complicate