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Menopausal Men with Expensive Guitars

from Losing Battles (Full Album) by Dave Taylor

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No, it's not about you! It's generic!

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Men with Expensive Guitars

1. He turned 55 with great expectations
His lady wife knew that he was hatching a scheme
Caught him playing air guitar with a tennis racket
Retired accountant gonna live the dream

He begged and he pleaded til she finally relented
Drove his car down to that music store
That top of the range Taylor was just the beginning
Now he’s got the bug and he just wants more

Menopausal Men (What’s the world coming to?)
Expensive Guitars( Gibson Takamine)
Menopausal men (it’s becoming an obsession)
Expensive guitars (where will it all end?)
See them everywhere in all the cafes and bars
Those Menopausal men with expensive guitars)

2. Every night you’ll find him down the open mike,
With a poser hat and a pair of cool shades
Squinting at a tuner, running through the chords,
Waiting for his turn to get up on that stage

Wound up tightly like a coiled spring,
Soon he’ll be knocking on heaven’s door.
Words on a music stand in a big font,
He’ll be heading down the highway with his geetar

Menopausal Men (at least it keeps him out of mischief)
Expensive Guitars (howling down the mike)
Menopausal men (now he wants another one)
Expensive guitars((keeps him off the motorbike )
See them everywhere those budding suprerstars
Those Menopausal men with expensive guitars)

He badgered and he pestered and got his first gig,
First step on the ladder to making it big
Now he’s thinking Glastonbury try hard to humour him
The new Bob Dylan, Neil Young or Leonard Cohen


3. He’s written a song about a failed relationship
Guitars hanging up on every spare bit of wall
Combat trousers with 28 pockets
You’ve got to look the part if you want to walk tall.

Dashing from one open mike to the other
Popping up here, there and everywhere
Gets one of his mates to record it on his smartphone
Puts it on facebook for the world to share.


Menopausal Men (kids havedisowned him)
Expensive Guitars (so cool and hip)
Menopausal men (now he wants a Lowden)
Expensive guitars((on an ego trip)
A wild desperado with a bus pass
Those Menopausal men with expensive guitars)


Menopausal Men (now he’s doing wagon wheel)
Expensive Guitars (too old for learning words)
Menopausal Men (not bloody Hallelujah!)
Expensive guitars (can he have more reverb)
It’s time they were all put out to grass,
Those menopausal men with expensive guitars.

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from Losing Battles (Full Album), track released January 1, 2019
Loosely based on "Girls with Guitars" by Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Dave Taylor Leicester, UK

I write both serious and comedy songs. 6 solo CDs to date and collaborations with Steve Cartwright -"Legends of Leicester/Leicestershire". "All at Sea" shantyish album. Folk based for the most part - when people ask where the ideas come from I can say with honesty -"not drugs!!".. Currently working on a new album "Aspects of Lurve" hopefully out later in 2024. ... more

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