New from Hagen Music: The Good Times Always Get the Best of Me

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The Good Times 

Always Get the Best of Me

(music & lyrics by Kyle Scheihagen)


I went runnin through the rhinestone racket
Of a disco dancehall in a long, tall jacket
And I can't stop laughin cos I can't stop drinkin 
And I can't stop drinkin cos I'd just start thinkin
How the good times always get the best of me

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Tie it up now, gotta feel the motion
Like a deep sea diver in an endless ocean
Gonna lift the needle, gonna find the river
Gotta give me something that it can't deliver
Cos the good times always get the best of me

She looked better than the gates of heaven

And she loved me like the knob was at eleven

And she said that baby this could be forever

But I know forever never lasts forever

The good times always get the best of me

O yeah the good times always get the best of me

Here we go now there's a whirlwind waitin 
Gonna tempt the toothache of an alligator 
Gonna ride gonna ride till there's no tomorrow 
Gonna jump for joy till I sink in sorrow 
The good times always get the best of me 

So call me crazy but you can't be certain

                                         That the best times don't cause all the world's worst hurtin 

Where you can't stop cryin cos you can't stop drinkin 

And you can't stop drinking cos you'd just start thinkin 

How the good times always get the best of you 

Just like the good times always get the best of me 

Oh yeah the good times always get the best of me

(WATCH KYLE's ORIGINAL VIDEO)

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This song was written by Kyle in we don't know when. (You'd have to ask him.) Anyway, it features some pretty great lyrics, IOHO, so enjoy.  Also enjoy the pics that we've culled in the last half-hour so, scouring the net for images that Kyle's lyrics so thoroughly invoke.  (Here, for example, we've got pics from "This is Spinal Tap", Shel Silverstein's "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and Auguste Rodan's "The Thinker.") We're considering making a video for the song using entirely web-searched images; might be fun.

On another note, the headline pic is one of late '20s film star, Louise Brooks.  Her photo here perfectly captures the decadence of an era when the good times, indeed, got the best of us.