the monkees - nine times blue (demo) - wide mono

Edit for headphones, March 2023. Edit of a song from the 1967 album "Headquarters" (2013 2 cd deluxe edition).
The official release is totally different, I like this demo best. (The official release - overproduced and with an annoying steel guitar - is on the album "Instant Replay" and added to this edit, with a warning!)

NINE TIMES BLUES
(Michael Nesmith)

there's a certain something in the way
you looked at me and said you'd stay
that let me know that I was out of line

but I didn't know what else to do
and like a fool I tested you
by demanding things of you which weren't mine

and now I feel like such a fool
for making you crawl back to me
but you did it with such love
that you're standing far above
me and all I did to you
I'm sorry now what can I do

I know that never in the world
could I have found me such a girl
who's there to pick me up before I fall

and if in the end we should go
both our separate ways
I know the lessons I've learned here is worth it all

and now I feel like such a fool
for making you crawl back to me
but you did it with such love
that you're standing far above
me and all I did to you
I'm sorry now what can I do

I know that never in the world
could I have found me such a girl
who's there to pick me up before I fall

and if in the end we should go
both our separate ways
I know the lessons I've learned here is worth it all

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