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On the threshold I behold one of my best friends
(¿Ésta listo? ¿Está listo?)
with many questions (¿Adónde va?)
of how it was and how it’s going to be: (De acuerda)
a beautiful friendship but now I have to set you free (De acuerda)

So now I’m-a dust off my suit of lime, step out one last time
Are you proud of yourself? Well, good, ‘cause I am

Comp away, my compañero, on the organ and the organs
(Es hermoso! Es hermoso!)
Fortunes will be yours and my friendship so enormous
(Nó importa! No importá!)
It shines so brightly every other nightly through my lonely life, MD
I am living right, see?
Lights in the city burn off in your wake – it’s hard to take

and it’s gonna be – I can feel it all around me as I dust off my shoe tree
Promise me you will ever dig yourself properly

(Tenga (!) cuidado (!))
(en la (!) Estados!)

Many are the moons since the Blowtorch tunes
tore open the rehearsing room
For your patients you are easing more than gloom
You are blessed by me, blessed by family,
Paul and Eva Lys, Cha-Cha, Rod-man,
my modern man, all the rest – you are the best

What takes you away I love and I detest
(¿Ésta listo? ¿Está listo?)
but take my love along and put it to the timing test
(Tenemos prisa)
Like no one I have seen you are for real (Espéreme)
Ricardo, my mellow going solo, you are the real deal (Espéreme)

So I will dust off the blocked brown, step out on the town
Are you up for staying friends? If so, I’m down

Plenty of life, plenty time to write, we’ll all unite in time
– when it’s operating time? I wonder, wonder
(¿Qué hace? ¿Adónde va?)

Many are the times when I will think of you and say, (¿Cómo está usted?)
‘Jolson was a perfectionista’ (¿Cómo está usted?)
You would hit the back door in the toaster with the underhand
(Répitalo! Repítalo!)
In my happy times you shared, in my rotten times you’d understand (Estoy perdido/estoy perdida)

Oh, you bad now – my heart’s not heavy, only hard now
(Cómo se llama él?)
The revenge of Ricardo (Se llama Ricardo!)
(Tengo cuidado)
(Répitalo! Repítalo!)
Vuelva pronto a visitarnos

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from Eric Blowtorch and his Superpowers Flame On​!​!, released December 1, 1999

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Eric Blowtorch Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Singer/guitarist/songwriter Eric Blowtorch sings, plays, and writes reggae, ska, rocksteady, soul, rock 'n' roll, funk, Latin, disco, hip-hop, Anglo-Afropop, and jazz songs with rhythm, melody, passion, and original comic timing. E. B. plays solo, in small combos, and with a band, Eric Blowtorch and the Bodyguards. ... more

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