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as cool as it gets

from Spin by Beautifully Mad

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    Spin CD album floating between Singer/songwriter acoustic songs to Jazz. Winner of Best Lyrics for Billy's Dream in the International Songwriting Awards 2014. Also Best Lyrics and Best Song in the Acoustic/Folk category at The Australian Songwriting Awards

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lyrics

He Was As Cool As It Gets © Tony King 2011

He sashayed when others walked
had a bemused eyebrow when others talked
Punctuated a thought with a smoke ring
A Dapper Dan, tan with an implication of Bling

He sauntered when others rushed
his white linen suit never crushed
Never found time for a job
Lived a self winding life on a Fob
He was as cool as it gets
He was as cool as it gets
He was as cool as it gets

He used money as a cologne
Went through plenty but never his own
a Panama hat shaded his past
from the silhouettes of women that didn’t last

His face rang all the alarm bells
Johnny Depp meets Sacha Distelle
Had a cane but no sign of a limp
Star sign of Prince with a moon rising in Pimp
He was as cool as it gets
He was as cool as it gets
He was as cool as it gets









If there was a line, he was blurred
Nothing got stuck to his fur
He was smoke with no flame
Nobody knew him by the same name

He was indelible as invisible ink
He was thirsty, I was a drink
In faint pencil we wined and we dined
Then I erased him, right out of my mind
He was as cool as it gets
He was as cool as it gets
He was as cool as it gets
He was as cool as it gets
He was as cool as it gets
He was as cool as it gets

credits

from Spin, released December 29, 2012
Hamish Stuart- drums
Bill Risby- Piano
Craig Walters-Sax
Nina Vox- Lead female vocals
Tony King- all other instruments

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Beautifully Mad Sydney, Australia

Breathtaking original music reminiscent of the beauty of James Taylor, some honey from Melody Gardot, a lyrical spice of Cohen washed down with some Waits-like humour. A musical flame that licks at the heels of Folk and Jazz

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