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This song was written in response to events in episode 5 of season 2 of the 'Dice to Meet You' podcast, online at dicetomeetyou.com/2017/02/10/s02e05-well-have-plenty-of-time-for-feelings-when-youre-in-jail/ , and was recorded during the following episode.

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You know that living in the city
Isn't very pretty
When you're used to punching demons in the nose.
My friends were in a bar,
Reminiscing about their war,
When a porcupine appeared in wizard's clothes.

Now, he said he'd had a friend,
who had been an evil man,
Till the porcupine at last had sold him out.
Now he's looking for his daughter,
And he thought my friends should oughter
Teleport to a new world and help him out.

(And how'd that work out for them?)

They're in the jailhouse now.
They're in the jailhouse now.
They chose to seek that piney girl,
Instead of sticking to their own damn world.
They're in the jailhouse now.

Well, the porcupine said the trut'
was his daughter had a flute,
And a weapon that he couldn't explicate.
Now, he made this quest sound fine,
To my friends, who, at the time,
Were a human, half-elf, and a dwarf curate.

So they got transported here,
Transformed to a goat and mouse and bear,
And they ran into me, and we shared an ale.
They'd been searching far and wide,
So I offered to be their guide,
We figured there was no way that we could fail.

(But guess what?)

We're in the jailhouse now.
We're in the jailhouse now.
They could have stayed back home,
And retained a more or less human form.
They're in the jailhouse now.

Next, we went to the Goddess' Repose.
Spent a bunch of time buying fancy clothes.
We searched and searched for clues around the town.
We tried to meet the mayor,
But she wouldn't meet us on a dare.
We didn't let these setbacks get us down.

I had written up a flyer,
Which I’d hoped might help us find her,
But later, at the bar, there'd been no bite.
After a few drinks, we'd agreed,
that we would see what we could see
At the zoning office late that very night.

(And was that a good idea?)

We're in the jailhouse now.
We're in the jailhouse now.
The Sheriff took one look,
Beat me half to death, then threw the book.
We're in the jailhouse now.

So that's our story and our fate,
So won't you please bring us up to date,
Here in the jailhouse now?

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from Dice to Meet You: Tales from the Goddess's Repose, released December 30, 2016

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