Name: Get Me Wrong
Duration: P00H03M21S
Description: My first recording attempt since my treatments for throat cancer in 2021. This is the voice I ended up with after recovering from getting my voice box irradiated 5 days a week for 7 weeks. It has been a long road back but I'm happy to be upright and breathing and making music again with Scott Mickelson! Hope you enjoy!

Get Me Wrong

by Mick Shaffer

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My first recording attempt since my treatments for throat cancer in 2021. This is the voice I ended up with after recovering from getting my voice box irradiated 5 days a week for 7 weeks. It has been a long road back but I'm happy to be upright and breathing and making music again with Scott Mickelson! Hope you enjoy!

lyrics

Broke as a joke
Stuck in Tulsa
No fair fights in this town
Knocked down, woke up in the flowers
Thorns in my crown

See my smile? You should know
It’s all I can do not to blow
This night sky high
So first rate
At tempting fate

Please get me wrong
When I swear that I’m right
My argument is strong
But it ain’t airtight

My words they fail when I’m speaking
My skies they pale, turn oblique
Too much time hide and seeking
Habits hard to break

Rode hard put away foundered
A pair of benders in one night
Scratch that itch till it’s powder
Two black eyes
First and second site

Please get me wrong
When I put up a fight
I pushed us into fast forward
And stuck us in rewind

First wife, didn’t really like me
She told me so on our wedding day
Honeymoon night at the bus station
She left me the bouquet

Second wife had one too many lovers
Third wife a bit like my mother
Fourth wife moved in with the first
All our words
Flap around like wounded birds

Please get me wrong
When I give you a piece of my mind
You’re finally catching on
There ain’t no punch line

Please get me wrong
When the chill works overtime
I’ll sing you my saddest song
And you can watch me trip and fall on every rhyme

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released May 8, 2023
Mick Shaffer: Lead & backing vocals; electric guitar
Scott Mickelson: Backing vocals; electric guitar, bass, keyboards, tambourine
Frank Reina: Drums

Produced/Engineered/Mixed by Scott Mickelson
Artwork: Scott Mickelson

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