"Dan Smith Will Teach You Guitar"

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"Dan Smith Will Teach You Guitar" (Demo)

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The problem with owning a guitar is knowing where to put it
When your apartment's so efficient and there isn't anywhere in there to store it
So it luxuriates against furniture, until you just ignore it
Like a shelf of books you've outmatured, you're never looking for it

A guitar is like a promise -- you can never ever break it
But when someone sees you got one it's expected that you play it
Not an unreasonable request -- unfortunately she made it
So I dug out my fake book and tried my best to fake it

She lied, "Yay, you could make a great star"
I tried to say, "I don't really play guitar"
She replied, "Hey, but you already kind of are playing guitar and since steady progress can only take you so far . . . Dan Smith will teach you guitar"

Dan Smith will teach you guitar, but I don't want to learn guitar from Dan Smith

Demo recorded January 3, 2008 in Sunnyside, Queens

Version recorded October 25-26, 2011 at home in Astoria, Queens