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Clear Black Night

from The High Hat Club EP by Mike Maimone

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Bought my last last pack of smokes with quarters now I can't afford the train, so I'm walking to the High Hat Club to make some change.
He always sits at the back, his favorite place to settle, he never looks up once while I'm up checking levels.
He ain't Mr. Universe, more like Mr. Ashtabula, and yeah it turns me on, but he's straight as a ruler.

It's been raining all day,
but it's a clear black night.
Don't need your blue skies,
just your clear black night,
your clear black night.

A look of recognition and it's back to his magazine, it's all I wanted now I'm back to my fantasy.
But now I'm moving closer, he smells of mesquite, he's a real man's man - but not the kind that would be into me.
Of all the words I had, well I finally had to settle, "has anyone ever told you you look like Burt Reynolds?"

It's been raining all day,
but it's a clear black night.
Don't need your blue skies,
just your clear black night,
your clear black night.

I been looking all around and I ain't seen a thing that'll take him off my mind and I just can't tell him.
I been sniffing all around but I ain't smelt a thing that'll take him off my mind, no, I can still smell him.

It's been raining all day,
but it's a clear black night.
Don't need your blue skies,
just your clear black night,
your clear black night, your clear black night.
your clear black night.

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from The High Hat Club EP, released September 14, 2018
Mike Maimone - piano, keys bass, vocals
Ian Tsan - drums
Tim Koelling - sax
Alex Leong - trombone

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Mike Maimone Los Angeles, California

Pianist, singer/songwriter & producer.
Co-founder and frontman of Mutts.

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