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This is a song about a romance of taste, and of the way falling for someone gets entangled with falling for what they read and listen to. It's really modeled on my high-school experience/high-school fantasy. Some folks might thing it sounds like a m
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Blues-influenced songster, churning out songs never-before heard about food, love, work, teaching Spanish, and more.
In an effort to get my music out into the world and to hone my writing practice, I'm starting a Song-A-Week project I'll attempt to release one brand new song per week for a year, starting today, Sunday, May 14th, 2006, and continuing through Sunday, May 13, 2007. Traditionally I, like most people, have written about love and sex — attraction, frustration, satisfaction, the works. As evidenced by the first song in my new series (about a job interview for a lame job), I'm trying to break out of this mold a bit more with my new series of songs... that said, I remain ever myself, and surely there will be more songs about love and whatnot.
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #886
Peak in subgenre #106
Author
Tom Hinkle
Rights
Tom Hinkle, 2006
Uploaded
November 04, 2006
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MP3 3.7 MB • 128 kbps • 4:01
Lyrics
You used to read every night First Bronte and Austen, then Plath and Sexton, Then Gary Snyder and Ann Waldman You used to listen every night First Annie Difranco Then Joanie Mitchell Then Tori Amos and the Indigo Girls And there's this boy that you met In the poetry section of Barnes and Noble And you asked him what he read And he said lately I've been into I've been into the metaphysical poets Have you got into them yet? You said me, the only old stuff I read is Shakespeare and John Keats but I would love to see John Donne through your eyes Wouldn't that be nice... Now you read every night But it's this boy's handwriting You can barely decipher it And he's citing poems on every page And you love the mix tape he made You really love Bob Dylan And you love Leonard Cohen You're even starting to like Tom Waits And you can't tell yet if it's this boy your falling for Or if it's just the way he reads But you put the power of two on the first mix you made him Your friends said that forward, but to you it just seemed sweet and you guess it worked 'cause this boy is sweet Well you used to read every night, First Bronte and Austen then Plath and Sexton Then Gary Snyder and John Donne And you still read every night But now it's goodnight moon And mother goose And moo ba, la la la
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