Baby, I Love You (The Ronettes)

Covers

Wouldn't It Be Nice (Beach Boyz)

marbled and daunted
calling aloud to your echoes of will

i gave you a pet name
once to frame you so still

i never did use it again
in verse or in word that i spoke

now freely you flit mischievous and fleeting
and i wish i was in on the joke

a man with a bird on each shoulder
crosses over to some other place

they sat like stony statues 
as he knelt down to tie up his lace

i wanted to take his picture
but i was too frightened to ask

a deeper and regal blue i’d never seen
than those feathers in light they were basked

it reminded me of the veins
in your arms and the heart in your chest

how it thumps so eagerly
like the foot of a hare in its nest

and how anonymously
my own muscle strains to call

but it cannot be felt through this leathery pelt
and the dense milky bone made of wall

Foot of a Hare

Duke (Cate le Bon)

Breakfast in Bed (Dusty Springfield)

Anna (Go To Him)— The Beatles

Late Night Maudlin Street (Morrissey)

My sleepy sweet boyhusband lies primly next to me
He dreams we are sunslaked at the mouths of foreign sea
Moons we couldn’t hold fast in the stodge of homely soil
and moods that turned her draperies from calico light to oil

The homegrown heat is stifling, the food all comes in plastic
And it screams at you like billboards, illumined and bombastic 

Where can you be reached?
I’ll come willingly

It seems I’ll write us all the way to transatlantic plains
But sweet, the sheep crop grass so green to bring us back again

Conversations can be stifling, our feelings feel elastic
They snap around inside my brain, illumined and bombastic

Well where can you be reached?
Is what they’ll say to me

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