Name: If You Have To Ask
Duration: P00H02M33S
Description: In the original version, in the bridge where I say "There ain’t no bill of good I’m trying to sell you / I can’t help it if I’ve got good taste" the original lines were "There was a part in here about Helen Keller / But I took it out because it was in bad taste" but I took it out because it was in bad taste.

If You Have To Ask

from Your Love Is All I Can Stand by Dan Kilian and The Million Man Band

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In the original version, in the bridge where I say "There ain’t no bill of good I’m trying to sell you / I can’t help it if I’ve got good taste" the original lines were "There was a part in here about Helen Keller / But I took it out because it was in bad taste" but I took it out because it was in bad taste.

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If you have to ask
If you don’t know
If I have to tell you
If it doesn’t already show
Then I must have some bad communication skills
Because I love you and I always will

So listen up
I’m gonna tell you again
This thing’s for real
It’s not pretend
Going out on the fire escape
And shout it out for all to hear
Then I’m gonna come back in
And I will whisper in your ear
If you have to ask
After all that
After I laid it all out for you flat
Then you must have some bad listening skills
Because I loved you before and I love you still

There ain’t no bill of good I’m trying to sell you
I can’t help it if I’ve got good taste
I don’t really mind having to tell you
Cause I love the way it lights up your face

If you have to ask
Go and fire away
Let me tell you
What I’ve been trying to say
I’ll spell it out
I’ll do pictogram
If there’s ever a man for you
Then I am
If you have ask
I have to laugh
Oh honey
What’s so hard to grasp
We must both have some bad communication skills
But I’ll keep telling you
Until you get it through your head
I said I love you and I always will

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from Your Love Is All I Can Stand, released September 27, 2017

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Dan Kilian and The Million Man Band New York, New York

Dan Kilian swallows hot coals of worry, regret and sorrow, then spits out rough diamonds of pop music. He's well regarded in the Antifolk scene, and whatever that is happening in Park Slope.

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