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    Todd's very first solo CD. (1990)

    First solo acoustic recording by Todd Burge, remastered. The digital download includes pictures of the original lyric drafts of My Apartment, Newspaper Blankets and Still Wanting You written in Todd's "hand". Actual CD comes with a free download.

    Todd Burge-Guitar, Voice, Harmonica
    Dave Traugh - Keyboards
    Jim Clinton - Guitar on "The Only Woman"
    Recorded at Super Trax-Parkersburg, WV 8/89-3/90
    Produced by Dave Traugh and Todd Burge
    (c) 1990 Bunj Jam Music BMI

    Photos by Perry Kirk

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Don't Try and Understand
© & (p) 1990 Bunj Jam Music-BMI

She said
Do you think if I break my watch
We could forget what time it is
I said
I'm sure it would grant us much more room
To move as smoothly as
We please

And could you show me that trick
You make with your hands
The one that sends me laughing
Down to my knees
And take the batteries from the watch
So we can forget
How long we're being missed

And you don't have to wash your hands
And you don't have to care
If your face is clean
I like you with those holes
In the knees of your jeans
And when it comes to who I am
Don't try and understand

She said
Do you think you have the right
To write
All your thoughts
Down on paper

I said when I get tight
I write it all down
but I don't mean to frown
and throw it in your face

And the next few words
That came out of her mouth
Made my mind wonder if those lines
Were hurting her
But I just can't seem to make up things
And I feel it's my place
To play from place to place

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from Never Say Uncle (1990 First CD Release Remastered), released August 30, 1990

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If it’s been discovered by man, West Virginia’s Todd Burge has written about it. A born ponderer and observer of life, each of his songs tells a story. Whether drawn from personal experience or a tale of poetically woven fiction, you’ll live every second of it through his songs. ... more

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