Track 1 from the 2022 album “Handbrake”
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What Would I Know?

Words & Music Mark Hilton © Copyright 2020
Catalogue #746

Don’t know why she left me
Thought we had it all
Gave her everything I liked

She said “you don’t get it”
I don’t get what I don’t get
Gave her the pony, then she took the motorbike

What would I know?
She could be Janis Joplin, or Barry Manilow

She used to look so good in jeans
Now she’s reading magazines
Eating chocolate and laying on the couch

She said “you don’t get it”
I don’t get what I don’t get
Gave her the money, then she took the house

What would I know?
She could be Janis Joplin, or Barry Manilow
What would I know?

She never used to get it
When I’d fall right on the floor
Well I could dance like I’m wearing roller skates

I got myself a jukebox
I’m turning out the lights
Playing the songs she hates

What would I know?
She could be Janis Joplin, or Barry Manilow

She’s pretty as a picture
But when I tried to ditch her
She got on the Yokohama bullet train

She tore up every photo
From Osaka to Kyoto
By Nagoya it was all back on again

What would I know?
She could be Janis Joplin, or Barry Manilow
What would I know?…