"One More Try" by The Mike Penny Orchestra

Behold in this latest sensory explosion from MPO the miraculous exploita--...integration of shamisen with eighties~early nineties pop music!

"1 More Try" starring Allison Smith (girl/artist extraordinaire) and The Mike Penny Orchestra!

Track download available here: http://themikepennyorchestra.bandcamp.com/track/one-more-try

Thanks to Adam Stacey (V-Drums, keyboards, camera) Allison Smith (girl), Doug Bierend (brainstorming), Mark Thornton (additional editing), and Jonah Stacey (loaning of V-Drums)!!!

http://www.youtube.com/vorticose (Adam's channel)
http://www.youtube.com/arkmay (Mark's channel)
http://www.youtube.com/godofshamisen (Mark's band's channel)

Lyrics:

Little child
You thought it'd be okay to sit and wait
Little Child
You thought it would never be too late to be great
(To be great)

It's no mystery
What happened to you, 'cause you see
It happened to me
It happened to me
Life and love, tragedy

Once in a while
I flip through the phonebook 'til I find her name
Still the same
I pick up the phone but I just can't dial
(Oh, no)

Your problem's like mine
The both of us ran outta time
Our lives were composed
Just like an old gramophone melody
That's so bittersweet you cry when you hear it
When I die I wonder if I'll get to meet the composer
Of a life like an old melody
That's so bittersweet you cry when ya hear it
Maybe it's not too late
Baby this could be fate and
Together the slate we could clear if
We gave life and love 1 more try

I'm in a rut and I don't know what I should do now
But baby there's somethin' that we could do under the covers
I wouldn't say it
But I know you relate and
Baby we could discover new things with each other
Because there are no rewrites
No there are no rewrites
But baby we just might
Be able to beat these long lonesome nights that define you and I
But no more
Not no more
No, no more
And here's why
Yeah, here's why 
You and I
We'll give life, life, and love 1 more try.

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[olsentwinsx2]

Crichton pillow bwahahahahahahahaha!

[tiyenin]

Well, sugars! I had no idea you were centralized in Los Angeles. I recognized the "Edie Van Halen?" / "Jenny Hendrix?" / "Erica Clapton?" posters immediately: Baxter-Northup, Ventura Blvd just west of Van Nuys, Sherman Oaks in the SFV. I work at the Cheesecake Factory just down the street from there.

[Vorticose]

I'm still so in love with this video. Every time I watch it, I discover another funny thing I hadn't noticed before.

[JetSpeed3r]

Mike Penny rules!

[Hikikomori013]

@shamikami I can only play Edison cylinders. I may have to upgrade to the 20th century to play all the Mike Penny masterpieces.

And the Shamikami swing.

So much good stuff these days.

[TheScottKirk]

Where in the hell did you manage to find a pay phone? I haven't seen one of those since the early 2000's.

[mostlycrapreviews]

WARNING: CONTAINS THE CHORD CHANGES FROM AIR ON A G STRING

[paperchasin23]

I'm so proud of you little mikey. It warms my heart to know that my son, the person your mother and I birthed has turned out to be such a wonderful and talented human being. I guess all those shamisen lessons paid off!

--love dad

[TheIdiosyncracy]

Wait this wasn't filmed in the 80's?! =P

[Kapoxandcheese]

Seriously dude.. You're my hero.