Monday, January 16, 2006
the world's saddest song
So someone recognized the lines from the post below to be a riff on the Stephin Merritt song "Asleep and Dreaming." I had orginally intended to put "a la Stephin Merritt (by way of Gertrude Stein)" at the end, but then figured no one would know or care (I mean who reads this blog anyway?) But now I'll at least put the mp3 up to the saddestsweetest song in the world that makes me cry every time I hear it.
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Yeah, I know it's kind of silly to pick the "saddest merritt song." And the one you quote here is really heartbreaking just to read, but there's something about "Asleep and Dreaming" that gets me very time. I'll have to take a listen to this one tho.
Underneath it all
we talk
over and above what is
so why not stay a while
and let me dream
of life with you.
I will not make a hollow pledge
of empty words
which promise something
I can’t give
The wind:
the sea:
or starlight’s shimmer
on your hair.
The bond I undertake to seek
exchanges comforts
found from understanding
and being understood
although
when I gaze upon your form
I see emotion as a mirage
You
the one love
who will never truly
stand before me.
Your flesh can be
only touched in dreams
when reality comes alive
in epic tales
played out nightly
or in that half snooze state
I sometimes get to fool around in
A world where my desire for you can be indulged.
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