Name: Carnival Game
Duration: P00H03M12S
Description: A playful pop track with a metaphoric lyric and a flugelhorn solo. You don't hear THAT everyday. But now you can.

Carnival Game

by Dan Markell

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A playful pop track with a metaphoric lyric and a flugelhorn solo. You don't hear THAT everyday. But now you can.

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CARNIVAL GAME
(Dan Markell)

VERSE 1:
Great big circle around my heart
And you've got arrows
Trap door open beneath my feet
And down I go

PRE-CHORUS:
You want me to play your fool
A sittin' duck in your one-way duel

CHORUS:
Isn't it a carnival game
Find yourself a target and aim
It's just a carnival game in your eyes
Knock me down and win yourself a prize

VERSE 2:
You keep shufflin' a three card hand
To hide your joker
And I'm still swingin' with all I've got
To hit that bell

PRE-CHORUS:
It's loyalty won or lost
Depending which way the ring gets tossed

REPEAT CHORUS

BRIDGE:
Where is the thrill
Playing like a paid-up shill
And, tell me, who's the buffoon
When you're cursed with the thirst to be first
with a bursted balloon

FLUGELHORN SOLO

PRE-CHORUS:
You want me to play your fool
A sittin' duck in your one-way duel

REPEAT CHORUS & TAG

words & music by Dan Markell
© 2017 (p) 2021 Daniel M. Schaarschmidt
published by: Fermada Nowhere Music (BMI)

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released June 23, 2021
credits:
Dan Markell: vocals/piano/bass/guitars/melodica/trumpet/flugelhorn
Andy Creighton: drums

Produced by: Dan Markell
Engineered & Mixed by: Andy Creighton
Mastered by Alex Emrich

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Dan Markell Los Angeles, California

Dan Markell is a songwriter & recording artist who lives in Southern California, USA.

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