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Don't Call Him Your Boyfriend / Start Again (double A​-​side single)

by The Photocopies

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Well, ever since you moved into our street Your life's been one long rinse and repeat, yeah It seems every other guy you meet is somehow Mr. Right Then, like it's not unforeseeable You find it wasn't meant to be at all But your latest seems more amenable And that's keeping me up at night Don't call him your boyfriend Don't call him anything at all I waited so long for the end of your last affair Already I can hear him through my wall Don't call him your boyfriend I don't wanna wait around It's been so long since I fell hard And I don't care for anybody else in this town I don't know why I don't know why You never saw in me the possibility When you were shopping around I don't know why I don't know why What will it take to get us together? Will I wait in vain forever? He's the latest in a sorry line He re-enacts a war in his spare time Well, if that doesn't change your mind Then maybe I'm a fool To even think that we could ever be Any more than next-door-neighbourly, oh I need a chance to let you see I'm not still that kid from school Don't call him your boyfriend Don't call him anything at all I waited so long for the end of your last affair Already I can hear him through my wall Don't call him your boyfriend I don't wanna wait around It's been so long since I fell hard And I don't care for anybody else in this town I don't know why I don't know why You never saw in me the possibility When you were shopping around I don't know why I don't know why I've seen everyone waltz through your door How come it's not me you adore? I don't know why I don't know why To me, it's never been in doubt You're the one I can't be without I don't know why It's him, not I Don't call him your boyfriend Please don't call him your boyfriend Oh, please don't call him your boyfriend Is it the way he fails to wash his hair? That scent of something hanging in the air, ugh Or is it just his vacant stare? Please don't call him your boyfriend Is it the way he dresses up to play Toy soldiers every Saturday And are you gonna kiss him anyway? Please don't call him your boyfriend Would I need to grow such a nasty beard? Am I just not the right kind of weird? Oh, I guess the problem really isn't clear Please don't call him your boyfriend Should I give it up? Am I wasting time when I've nothing else left on my mind? In lucid moments I know I must be blind Still I'm saying please don't call him your boyfriend Ooh When you look my way, do you see me at all? Am I really just so unacceptable? Ooh I don't want to ask you again and again, but please Please don't call him your boyfriend No
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I saw you out there by the old oak tree Like someone from the early 70s Dressed in glitter, shimmering in the sun They didn't know just what to make of you I knew exactly what I had to do There was no question you were gonna be the one So we went to the dance, yeah Dressed to the nines You had all the moves And you didn't mind my two left feet I was so far behind Your smile was a sign I feel ready to start again (Oh yeah) I couldn't wait until school was done We'd be together all summer long Two of a kind, shimmying in the sun We didn't care about the looks we got The name-calling We'd say, "So what?" They just didn't know how it feels to be in love How could they have known when they'd already given up? They'd settled for something sSturdy and grey We wanted to burn bright every day But it went too far Now you've gone away And I just don't know how I can ever start again (Oh no) La la la la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la la la I don't know how I can ever start again La la la la la la la la la la la I don't know how I can ever start again La la la la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la la la

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These songs are also available on the very reasonably priced album Greatest Hits Volume 2: thephotocopies.bandcamp.com/album/greatest-hits-volume-2

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released September 9, 2022

Words and music by Sean Turner

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Unapologetically old-school #indiepop in a mid-80s-to-early-90s vein, made without secret plans to fill stadiums (ugh). Think lo-fi #c86 #twee #postpunk #janglepop etc. Originally from London.

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