Change or a Dollar

Track 1 - The Danger Contradiction EP


For the next few weeks, I will be bringing you a special edition of the Author's Monthly Quarterly, featuring The Danger Contradiction. The Danger Contradiction is a collaborative project between myself, singer/songwriter Alice Danger, and Dialectic, the producer behind all the banging instrumentals and beats.

This track is about a struggling couple, just trying to make it in today's world, and what it really means to provide (All of Miss Danger's lyrics are in blue). Please enjoy, there will be many more like this to come, and the tracks will all be compiled into an EP when it is finished.

To hear more from Alice Danger and Dialectic:

Dialectic

Alice Danger

(Lyrics)
I miss you darling; please don’t you leave too soon.

Cause in the morning, it’s so cold, without you.

I miss you darling. When will I see you again? 

I know you’re working, but if you love me, I need you there.

I’m trying baby, but times are still tough, between the five to five, and the six to twelve, we still don’t have enough.

I’m tired of this struggle, day in and day out.

Been waiting years for some good luck to come, but it seems there’s been a drought.

I know I told you that I’d be around more, but my feet are so sore. Just let me rest for a second, before the alarm goes off and I’m already out the door. I’ll be there for Miranda’s birthday. What? She’s already four? 

I wanted to be there for it, but at least I’m still providing.

Baby please, you know I’m trying; don’t accuse me of lying.

By the time I get home, you’re already sleeping, and since I come in slow and quiet you think I’m creeping from cheating. What?

That couldn’t be farther from the truth, by the way. As if I got the time, and yes, I already know what you’re gonna say.

Just not tonight sweetheart, I don’t have the energy for it.

And if you have to depart, I don’t think that I could fault you for it.

I’m trying darling.

I really am, believe me. I wish I could spend every second here with you.

Cause in the morning, I hate waking up, and leaving you is the very last thing I want to do.

My pretty darling: I promise I’m really trying to change, it just can’t happen right away

Cause I’m still working, and I’m still working. and I just don’t see a way to escape.

We've had this talk so many times; it seems we're cursed with a fundamental, unsuccessful, love that just won't work.

I understand. To be a man you think you have to offer me the things I've never had.

But I don't want money. I just need somebody to hold me close and keep me warm at night.

The reason we're married is that I knew you could carry the family we built, and treat me right. But I've been doing it by myself all of this time; I need your help.

And when I needed you around, then you were nowhere to be found.

Look babe, I know you care. But to be fair, this isn't fair: Explaining to my baby why her daddy's never there.

I must say: I've had it. This unhappy marriage is not part of the life I want to live.

All the love that we gave this, we both want to save it.

But darling, something's got to give.

I’ll miss you darling,

Please don’t leave so soon.

Cause in the morning

It’s so cold, without you

I’ll miss you darling

When will I see you again?

I know you’re working, but if you loved me, then you’d be there.

I came back home, but you were nowhere to be found.

It looked like we were robbed, except for the boxes on the ground.

I guess you finally left; I knew you eventually would.

Still it stings. You know that I’d bring you back, if I could.

I know I can’t, I know that you’re gone; I missed my chance.

I noticed you left the picture of our first wedding dance.

What a reminder of what I thought we would have. I should’ve known that that happiness in that picture wouldn’t last. 

It probably could’ve, I should’ve tried a little harder. Well by the look of things, a lot. I probably would’ve if I were smarter.

I’m just too stubborn, but you knew that about me. That’s why you left the letter right? And on top your apartment key.

I must’ve read that letter at least hundreds of times. I haven’t heard from you since, I hope you’re doing all right. 

When you can, tell my baby that her Daddy loves her. Not much of role model, but I can be a good father. 

I miss you darling; please don’t you leave too soon.

Cause in the morning, it’s so cold, without you.

I miss you darling. When will I see you again? 

I know you’re working, but if you love me, I need you there.