Name: The Pest ( In a Perfect Garden)
Duration: P00H03M16S
Description: This is about having the Midas touch, but instead of turning everything to gold, anything you touch turns to ruin. Appreciating something for it's beauty, innocence and perfection and wanting to be part of that, but at the same time knowing that you will destroy it.

The Pest ( In a Perfect Garden)

from It Starts With A Shaker... by James M Carson

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This is about having the Midas touch, but instead of turning everything to gold, anything you touch turns to ruin. Appreciating something for it's beauty, innocence and perfection and wanting to be part of that, but at the same time knowing that you will destroy it.

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I never wanted to disappoint you
So I didn't ever take a chance to
All these things we could have talked through
But I didn't want to
But I didn't want to

Cause anybody can become a burden
A pest in a perfect garden
You wanted just to tend to flowers
But I didn't let you
I just didn't let you

I must have passed on a million chances
Cause I was waiting for the perfect time
To win you over with a declaration
I would have written if I had a spine

But I didn't want to disappoint you
So I never gave myself the chance to
And of my feelings you were spared too
So I wouldn't hurt you
So I would't hurt you

Because I didn't want to
Because I didn't want to

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from It Starts With A Shaker..., released July 17, 2021
Matty Croft (production and clapping)

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James M Carson Manchester, UK

Not unlike music from the hills of 70s Laurel Canyon, Carson's songs evoke shadows of simpler times when the quest for melody was king. James has been influenced by the melodic melancholy and intimate lyricism of singer songwriters like Neil Young and Elliott Smith, but equally entranced by the power pop hooks of bands such as Teenage Fanclub as well as their grunge admirers, Nirvana. ... more

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