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I'm tired of being Mr Reliable
A solid guy so full of sympathy
Now I'm Mr Certifiable
Let's talk for a while about me...

I want to be complicated
I'm going to share around my pain
I'll be all agonised and agitated
In my poor, fevered brain.
When you're feeling happy, I'll be in a mood,
I'll be underhand and over-sexed, foul-mouthed and crude.
Neglectful of my hygiene, weird about my food,
That's little old complicated me.

I'll be oh so complicated
I'll be screwed up and repressed
You'll all be fascinated
As to why I'm such a mess.
There's not a thing I won't have taken, booze and dope and pill
I'll be addicted to addiction, in thrall to every thrill
It's a miracle that what I've done never seems to kill
Little old complicated me.

Some say I was molested at a tender age
Some say I've just transvesting, I'm at that bi-gender stage
Some say I'm on the spectrum, that's why I'm insecure
But I say I crave affection, I need more more more more.

And my women will be complicated
With chequered histories.
They'll be resentful, mad, frustrated
They'll be even worse than me
Our affairs will be desperate - intense and brief and doomed
With seedy liaisons in dingy hotel rooms
Before yet another break-up in floods of tears and gloom
From little old complicated me.
Late at night you'll get a call from the local A & E
There's been a fight, maybe a fall, and you'll just know it's me.
And sometimes when you really need me, I'll be nowhere to be found
'Cos one thing is guaranteed - I'll always let you down

(Because)
I'm so goddamned complicated
You'll hear it in my songs
They may make you feel nauseated
But you'll still come along.
And as you watch me up here, bleeding on the stage,
You'll say that it's a shame I refuse to act my age
But deep down you'll be loving all the pain and rage
From little old complicated me.
That's little old complicated me.
Little old... but enough about me
What do you think of....
Little old complicated me?

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from Enough About Me - ALBUM, released August 10, 2018
Terence Bacler - vocals, guitar
Hugh Bradley - double bass

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Terence Blacker England, UK

'Classic folk blues in the making.'
FATEA MAGAZINE

'We need cheering up right now and this singer-songwriter, sometimes tender, sometimes sardonic, is just the ticket.' SUNDAY TIMES

Huge fun... it put a big smile on my face.'
TOM ROBINSON, BBC6 Music

'One enormously satisfying album.... humorous, beautiful, deadly, a real treat for the senses.'
LIVERPOOL SOUND AND VISION ... more

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