Song of the Day

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Music Blog, TODO

Current Music: Etherial Girl (our first partial demo recording)

Time to resurrect my old blog, which I haven't written in for quite a while... I was inspired by our swing teachers Paul & Nat and their music blog. just a quick entry though, since I just came back to school after spring break and realized how behind I am! My TODO list right now includes:

• Schenkerian Analysis HW -- this one has two instruments in alto clef, so it'll be a bit slower than some
  
• Wrapping up the statistics reporting for Emily's model of sexual motivation strategies and STD spreading
• Continuing research for Chris on audio recognition
• Taxes -- we've passed the Ides of March, but April is coming...
• Move my plane ticket, again, due to a scheduling conflict with our band's first major concert in Amishville, Indiana(!)
• Update my orals reading list with the latest comments from the committee
• Start work on the Two-Note Problem in the Seek Well domain

I should also like to start a music blog of my own, a sort of song-of-the-day thing.

I had a house while you were gone

Current Music: I'd Give It All For You, by JRB

I was very happily surprised the other day when JRB himself emailed me, out-of-the-blue, since he had run across my earlier entry that mentions his new album. I felt pretty star-struck. He often feels like he is singing directly to the listener, especially since he since a phrase at the end of Hear My Song. You can't get much more 2nd-person as a composer than actually singing your 2nd-person lyrics in a musical to the listener, and then later emailing the listener directly! It felt as if I had been reading If on a winter's night a traveller and then Italo Calvino himself had called me up for a chat to see how the reading was going. So JRB is successfully in touch with his fan base, it seems!

On a related note, I made a purchase offer on a condo this afternoon. It's brand-new, in a pretty new neighborhood. It was scary to pick between two that I liked a lot but it was nice to be decisive and make a decision. There were lots of documents to sign. I still have to get mortgage approval but it sounds like it's going to work out thanks to my parents' help and the government FHA loan program. I'll keep my fingers crossed. I might get to pick out the carpet color, and I have to buy a fridge and stove. Maybe I'll be really extravagent and get a fridge with an ice-crusher and water tap. Ah, the American dream!

I only can think of one appropriate new-house-purchase song, which is the one I'm currently listening to. JRB writes/sings:

I had a house while you were gone
The week after you left me
I found a couple acres
Near Severna Park
I had a house while you were gone
A house with silver shutters
And a driveway laid in marble
And thousands of rooms to fill
And miles of space to fly
And I tried to believe it
It was better without you
I was safer alone

No, I'd give it all for you
I'd give it all for you by my side once more
Oh, I'd give it all for you
I'd give it all to hold you again
To feel I'm completed
To know there and then
That all that I needed
Was you to fight the fear
And now you're here

Of course, having a condo means I can sing that found

A place with zero acres
Near the Country Club

But I'm happy with this place regardless!

Today I also finished taking the introductory Lindy Hop swing dance lesson series. It was surprisingly fun, so I'll be signing up for East Coast swing lessons next month.

Ethereal Girl

Current Music: in my head: the chorus of Ethereal Girl

Last weekend, saracariad, moonzie, geeoff, and I got together to play music. Our fearless leader wrote lots of cool lyrics and music, even though she was pretty critical of her own stuff. My favorite part is the start of the chorus with the words "ethereal girl" that were found after a long search of words like effervescent, elusive, apparition, etc. And it sounds like the opposite of "material girl" so it's quite amusing. I can't wait to make a complete version of this song as well as other new ones in the works. As often happens, we should have started this at the start of the summer!

Ethereal Girl is about missed opportunities, etc. with a girl who appears at an airport, bus depot, etc. and quickly disappears again before the guy gets up the courage to talk to her, and as such it reminds me of Jonathan Lethem's story "Vivian Relf" from his collection Men and Cartoons. In the story the protagonist, Doran, keeps meeting Vivian but they never talk about anything other than how they thought they recognized each other but actually didn't know each other before. And that's basically all they ever talk about, but Doran gets fixated on the idea of her. Eventually he writes a poem about her after a chance meeting on an airplane:

Oh Vivian Relf! Oh eclipse, oh pale penumbra of my yearning!
Pink slip, eviction notice, deleted icon, oh!
Stalked in alleys of my absent noons, there's nobody
knows you better than I!
Translucent voracious Relf-self, I vow here
Never again once to murk you
With pallid tropes of familiarity or recognition
You, pure apparition, onion --
Veil of veils only!

Top 5

Current Music: My crazy sketch of my future wedding recessional music

Several top 5 song lists:

Love Songs:

1. Crush (DMB)
2. Unexpected Song (from Song & Dance, the musical)
3. Live with Somebody you Love (Martin Guerre, the musical)
4. Till You Came into My Life (Jekyll & Hyde, the musical concept album)
5. Che Gelida Manina (Your hand is freezing...) from La Boheme...although it sort of sucks to cut it out of the context of the scene...the segue into Mimi's "Mi chiamano Mimi" really helps make it rock,but hers isn't explicitly about love; just sort of invoked a bit in"il Primo bacio dell'Aprile e mio!" ("April's first kiss.")

Honorable mentions:

• All I Ask of You (Phantom of the Opera, the musical)
• A Whole New World (Aladdin, the movie)

Anti-love songs:

1. Haloween (Dave Matthews Band)
2. One Night in Bangkok (Chess, the musical)
3. [Love and your world will become a] Madhouse (Aspects of Love, the musical)
4. Happilly Ever After (cut from the musical Company, by Sondheim)
5. Bitches Ain't Shit (Snoop Dogg)

Unrequited love songs:

1. Say Goodbye (Dave Matthews Band)
2. The Winner Takes it All (ABBA)
3. All I Ask of You Reprise -- Finale Act 1 (Phantom of the Opera)
4. Only the Very Best (from Tycoon, the English translation of the Canadian rock opera Starmania)
5. If I Can't Love Her (Beauty and the Beast -- the stage musical version)

Star-Crossed Lovers songs:

1. You and I -- reprise (Chess, the ABBA/Tim Rice musical -- Broadwaycast recording)
2. Written in the Stars (Aida, the Elton John/Tim Rice musical)
3. Don't (Martin Guerre, the musical [revised version]).
4. Letting Go (Jekyll & Hyde, the musical)
5. Someday out of the Blue (El Dorado, the Elton John/Tim Rice animated film soundtrack)

Honorable mentions:

• One Upon a Dream (Jekyll & Hyde)
• I Still Believe (Miss Saigon, the musical)

Schönberg

Current Music: Woman in White Suite, from Phantasia by Lord Lloyd Webber

I just found a list of the music that Claude-Michel Schönberg himself said he'd like to tkae with him if he were stranded on a desert island. I like it that he has "Only the Very Best" from Tycoon on here -- that's one of my favorites. And the original Prologue from Martin Guerre -- also easy to understand. I'll have to check out those that I haven't heard yet, like his "'Too much for one Heart". I also found out about his solo record, "Le Premier Pas", which is for sale at Tower Records.

1.'At the End of the Day'
Performer Cast of 'Les Miserables' from 10th anniversary concert
Composer Claude-Michel Schönberg
Publisher BBC 1999
CD Title Les Miserables in Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
Track 4
Label ENCORE
Rec No Enc.CD.18

2.'Elle afui, la tourterelle' (Although Your Turtle Dove has Flown)
Performer Jessye Norman accompanied by the Rundfunkchor Leipzig
Composer Jacques Offenbach
Publisher Philips Classics Productions
CD Title Tales of Hoffmann
Track Cd2 trk 5
Label PHILIPS
Rec No 422 3756-2, 376-2 & 377-2

3.'Only the Very Best'
Performer Peter Kingsbery
Composer Berger/Plamondon/Rice
Publisher Sony
CD Title 'Tycoon'
Track 1
Label SONY
Rec No 658435 1

4.'Too much for one Heart'
Performer Lea Salonga
Composer Claude-Michel Schönberg
Publisher N/A
CD Title Lea Salonga -Broadway Concert
Track 11
Label BMG
Rec NoBMRCD 198

5.'Mon ceour s'ouvre a ta voix (At your Voice My Heart unfolds)
Performer Agnes Baltsa and Jose Carreras with Symphonie Orchestre
Composer Saint Saens
Publisher Philips Classics productions
CD Title Samson et Dalila
Track Cd2 trk 2
Label PHILIPS
Rec No 426 244-2 & 245-2

6.'Quanto Cielo' (What an Expanse of Sky)
Performer Maria Callas and Mario Boriello with the Orchestra & Choir of the
Composer Puccini
Publisher EMI
CD Title Madama Butterfly
Track Cd1 trk 5
Label EMI
Rec No CDC 747959/60

7.'Prologue'
Performer London cast recording
Composer Boubil & Schonberg
Publisher Bouberg music
CD Title Martin Guerre
Track 1
Label First Night
Rec No CASTCD 59

8.'Beim Schlagengehen' (Before Going to Sleep)
Performer Dame Kiri te Kanawa
Composer Richard Strauss
Publisher CBS
CD Title Four Last Songs
Track LPS1 trk 3
Label CBS
Rec No 76794

Record: Four last songs
Book: Wallace Earle Stegner - All the Little Live things
Luxury: Grand piano

21st Century and Century 21

Current Music: Why God Why?, Miss Saigon -- Complete Symphonic Recording

I'm reading, on the advice of C's dad, "The World Is Flat: A brief history of the twenty-first century", by Thomas Friedman. It's about globalization, supply chains, India, China, etc. etc. Good current-events stuff and great writing. I opened randomly to pg. 205 and saw a title that sucked me in: "India vs. Indiana: Who is Exploiting Whom?" and read a funny thing about a weird instance here in Indiana about an unemployment office having its software development outsourced to India, with lots of mind-bending consequences about how we think of the complicated pluses and minuses of globalization -- or "flattening" of the globe. Next, I randomly turned to pg. 276 and read the first few pages of the chapter "This is Not a Test", whose thesis seems to be that the U.S. is currently facing a crisis of deciding how to cope with the flattening world. I found this paragraph hilarious. It's in the context of how it's harder to get Americans to rally around a flattening-based cause that is more subtle than, say, a nuclear threat from the Soviet Union:

But today, alas, there is no missile threat coming from India. The "hot line," which used to connect the Kremlin with the White House, has been replaced by the "help line," which connects everyone in America to call centers in Bangalore. While the other end of the hotline might have had Leonid Brezhnev threatening nuclear war, the other end of the help line just has a soft voice eager to help you sort out your AOL bill or collaborate with you on a new piece of software. No, that voice has none of the menace of Mikita Khrushchev pounding a shoe on the table at the UN, and it has none of the sinister snarl of the bad guys in From Russia with Love. There is no Boris or Natasha saying "We will bury you" in a thick Russian accent. No, that voice on the help line just has a friendly Indian lilt that masks any sense of threat or challenge. It simply says: "Hello, my name is Rajiv. Can I help you?"

No Rajiv, actually, you can't.

I like this style -- easy to see why it's a bestseller. I've always taken it a bit personally when jobs that should go to Indianans get outsourced to Indians.

In other news, I started looking at condos for sale today so that I can move out of this apartment; rent keeps rising so it's probably going to be the same price soon as a mortgage payment on a shiny new condo. It actually might be cheaper to have moved! A helpful Iraqi woman I know gave me the name of a Century 21 realtor to talk to. So the hunt has started. But at one point I got sad thinking of moving myself into a nice new place, and I wrote a bit to my friends to understand what was happening; I'll paste some in here.

I looked at condos on a web site and found some nice ones that looked perfect and are just blocks away from where I am now. So I was pretty excited, but then it surprisingly made me sad because I didn't want to be doing so without a significant other. Perhaps this is one of the things that has made me put it off for so long. I think I really like the idea of "settling down" and moving into a house with some girl; I enjoyed moving into a new apartment with someone before because of the domestic bliss it seemed to provide.

Something I read a few weeks ago I suppose makes this clearer for me too: I read in this book on "being a man in the modern age" (Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man, by Sam Keen) that whereas we used to have standardized "coming-of-age/becoming a real man" rituals (i.e. the tribe makes you go off into the wilderness and survive on eating roots for a month or something), we've sort of eliminated such silly things but the idea still persists in milestones such as, in particular, getting married and buying a house. That's one of the key manhood-achievements. And realizing this, I notice that I get this bizarre feeling of "failure" as I think of moving into a house sans femme -- visualizing the move-in itself leaves me with this feeling of having "skipped a step" (such as the getting married part) and, hence, it makes more concrete the idea that "I'm alone".

Of course, much of me is excited about the prospect of owning my own place -- it seems better financially and the new place will probably be more fun to live in that my current apartment. And there's something nice and "manly" about it. It's just that it seems much more lonely to live alone in my own place instead of a more transient apartment. But that, of course is silly, and easier to deal with now that I realize what was causing it.

Flow

Current Music: I Stop And I Breathe -- Elton John, Peachtree Road

A couple great books I've been reading. Both have weird names, but are wonderful:

• Flow: The psychology of optimal experience (steps toward enhancing the quality of life), by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
• Intimate Connections, by David Burns

Two nights ago I stayed up to finish the first draft of my Lullaby, a piano piece I mostly thought up the summer after my freshman year as an undergrad. Writing it out, though, forces me to make decisions about its structure and also gives an opportunity to make it make more overall consistency. I still need to work out the transitions between separate sections and to make the fast section a bit less mindless.

In other news I'm now taking swing dance lessons. I'm starting with Lindy Hop but I want to learn East Coast next, and maybe later add some ballroom lessons as well.

In music news, Jason Robert Brown has a rockin' new CD out called Wearing Someone Else's Clothes. The title track is very cool, as are most of the songs. It's the composer singing and playing keyboards, backed up by his band. There are even a few live tracks on the CD. "I Could Be In Love With Someone Like You" is a song that (obviously) was going to be part of The Last Five Years, while "Over" is sort of in the style of Songs for a New World. Similarly, "Long Long Road" actually references Songs for a New World in what seems like a pretty personal way. I'd love to know the story behind this one. I love the meta-level feeling when JRB himself sings

"And oh I guess you and I know all about new worlds
and how you're never quite prepared"

and later:
"And oh it just proves what I say about new worlds
and how it ain't worth being scared"

I'm very surprised and happy at how much I like this CD. I also picked up The Light in the Piaza, a new musical about love in Italy, which seems promising, but I haven't quite got into the music enough. It's weird, but pretty. I need to give it more time to have anything concrete to say about it.

Finally, the other night I got to see a performance of Mahler's 2nd in the MAC. It was amazing. And it worked: I was ruminating about death and so on during the performance and the music made me momentarily give some serious thought to the possibility of some form of reincarnation; very surprising and bizarre. My buddies and I sat up towards the front and were following along with the score. The choir rocked, after sitting patiently through the first 4 movements. And I finally managed to spot Talia in the choir about 4 measures before the end.

Reunion and Ms. X

Current Music: late-night percussive firework booms

I could write a huge amount about my two or three reunions in the last two weeks: 10-year high school reunion, my sister's wedding (sort of a family reunion too) and a reunion with various friends from Montana. It was a lot like Alan Lightman's book Reunion. (NPR interview with author, reviews). Well, my reunions were happier events, especially those with old, somewhat long-lost friends from my undergrad. My sister's wedding prominently featured the infinity symbol, as did one of my own reunions: "C" showed me an exercise for developing concentration and focus by repeatedly drawing the infinity sign followed by a letter of the alphabet.. this is repeated 26 times, proceeding from a to z. Later this all inspired an analogy that cheered me up:

We have infinity, the concept of boundless increase or endless repetition, but mathematicians in set theory have developed systems of transfinite numbers, where symbols actually stand for various infinite quantities... and some infinities are larger than others. The magnitude of infinity that represents the (infinite) number of integers is called "aleph null" (the aleph character with a 0 subscript). The magnitude of infinity that "counts" the number of real nubmers (decimals, as opposed to integers) is "C", for continuum. C is so much greater than aleph null (it's equal to aleph null to the aleph null power) that it's hard to conveive of. For one infinity to be infinitely greater than another is mind-blowing, and like quantum physics, if it doesn't seem strange one probably doesn't quit grasp the magnitude(!) of the situation.

So love (limerence?) reminded me of the transfinite numbers. Thoughts of perfection, bliss, love, etc. for me often will revolve around one person and remind me of infinity; call her "aleph null". When in love (limerence) it seems that aleph null has some vaguely infinite qualities. But in the presence of "C", aleph null seems, well, nullified. I had a visceral psychological experience of my thoughts of aleph null sliding off in the infinite distance of the transfinite number line as I remembered the depth and quality of life experience had with C. Fortunately, as with the manifestations of the 3rd dimension in Flatland and the promise of a 4th dimension in Spaceland, there is a theoretical higher-level love promised by C to the C power, call it X = C^C.

So I'm waiting for Ms. X. But I'd also be plenty happy with C/2.

French Fantôme: Pense à Moi

Current Music: Pense à Moi, Le Fantôme de l'Opéra

On the DVD of the 2004 Phantom of the Opera, if you select French audio, you actually get a great performance of the music in French via a wonderful translation of the lyrics. I'd like to know who the translator and singers were; they did a superb job!

Here is the french version of Think of Me. I especially liked: "Pense au temps où tout semblait facile // Dis-toi qu'après la pluie demain jubile!" Overall. the translation is a bit sadder, more focused on loss instead of remembering the happy times. Later I'll post Music of the Night, which also has a different spin.

Christine:
Pense à moi
pense à nous deux
après nos au revoirs.
Ne m'oublie pas
où que tu ailles
promets-le-moi ce soir.
Quand l'instant
te semblera venu
de regagner ta liberté,
Glisse-moi de temps à autre
là, dans tes pensées.

Oh non, jamais nous n'avons cru l'amour
irréprochable et infini.
Mais un jour si tu t'éloignes,
pense à moi aussi.

Pense au temps où tout semblait facile.
Dis-toi qu'après la pluie demain jubile!

Pense à moi
qui me réveille,
si seule et sans espoir,
qui rêve et prie
qu'enfin le temps
t'arrache à ma memoire.

Revis ces jours,
repense à ces instants.
Les petits riens semblaient si doux.
Il ne sera pas un jour
Sans que je pense à nous.

Raoul:
C'est inouï!
N'est-ce pas Christine?

Bravo!

Tu n'es plus
La gamine un peu gauche
Que j'ai connue un jour lointain...
Te souviendras-tu de tout?
Car moi, je n'oublie rien...

Christine:
Fleurs et fruits, tout n'a qu'un temps ici.
Les grands élans ne durent pas.
Mais veux-tu me le promettre?
Pense aussi...
À moi!

DMB concert + links

Current Music: "Halloween", Live at Luther College

I saw DMB on Sunday, June 12. It took forever to get to the venue in Noblesville, Indiana; I arrived at about 7:30. The traffic and crowd was crazy, plus there was a huge storm; lots of water everywhere, tornado watches and warnings, lightning, etc. etc. I had a lawn "seat" so I got to stand in the rain for about 90 minutes before the band started playing, but it was worth the wait. The light show made a big impression on me, especially in "Don't Drink the Water" (red lights, of course) and "Hunger for the Great Light" (bright white lights around the stage and pointed at the audience during the chorus.) They only played 3 of my top 10 songs, but I was glad to hear some of the Stand Up stuff live. The set list was:

Dream Girl
Don't Drink the Water
Rapunzel
Crash
Hello Again
Everyday
Intro ->>
Hunger For The Great Light
Loving Wings
Where Are You Going
Seek Up -->
Die Trying
What Would You Say
Louisiana Bayou
Steady As We Go
Stand Up
__________________

Stolen Away On 55th & 3rd
Tripping Billies


Unfortunately, I should have gone the next night: Monday was an incredible concert according to the newsgroups, with a much wilder show including crazy lightning during "Watchtower" and a better set list. Ah well, I'm downloading a bittorrent recording now. I didn't realize there was such a great online DMB community:

antsmarching.org
dreamingtree.org
nancies.org

Top 10 DMB Songs

Current Music: #41

It took a long time to sort through so many albums to find the top 10 Dave Matthews tunes... but after reading this EW article I decided I had to try.

1. Say Goodbye -- Crash
   
2. #41 -- Crash
   
3. Crush -- Before These Crowded Streets
   
4. Crash -- Crash
   
5. Pig -- Before These Crowded Streets
   
6. Ants Marching -- Under the Table and Dreaming
   
7. Halloween -- Before These Crowded Streets
   
8. The Stone -- Before These Crowded Streets
   
9. Seek Up -- Live at Red Rocks
   
10. Dreamgirl -- Stand Up
    

Anti-War Protest in Disguise...

Current Music: Finlandia, by Jean Sibelius (1899)

... as a Unitarian church service! I attended my first Unitarian Universalist service today and enjoyed it, although I was bit taken aback by the blatant political message even though I had been warned. I agreed with the message but it felt funny, sandwiched in amongst the hymns and beautiful piano offeratory music.

Still, I was pleasantly surprised by the choice of the hymn "This is my Song" (sung to the Finlandia melody). I always liked it but the words never sunk in until it was put in proper context by today's Memorial Day sermon. That most beautiful harmony in the piece is used for the words "But other hearts in other lands are beating...", and I was really moved, especially as it was combined with the bass octaves the pianist added in on the downbeat rest before the start of the phrase. Very, very effective all around; I nearly got chills at that point!

Lloyd Stone, 1934

This is my song, Oh God of all the nations,
A song of peace for lands afar and mine.
This is my home, the country where my heart is;
Here are my hopes, my dreams, my sacred shrine.
But other hearts in other lands are beating,
With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.

My country's skies are bluer than the ocean,
And sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine.
But other lands have sunlight too and clover,
And skies are everywhere as blue as mine.
Oh hear my song, oh God of all the nations,
A song of peace for their land and for mine.

May truth and freedom come to every nation
May peace abound where strife has raged so long;
That each may seek to love and build together,
A world united, righting every wrong.
A world united in its love for freedom,
Proclaiming peace together in one song.

More music: New DMB album

Current Music: "Dreamgirl", from DMB: Stand Up

I got this album and was hoping Dave Matthews would give us another really sensual song, something like Crash or Crush or Say Goodbye. I was startled by the first track: "Dreamgirl" is short and sweet but it qualifies in places (see below). The switch to the submediant +7 harmony right on "best friend" really works for me, and I like the vi7->V->IV thing that happens there. It makes it so beautiful it's sad, and it's intensified later when the African chorus stuff from the intro comes back in towards the end of the song.

I propose that Crash, Crush, and this song all could be used as a a good litmus test for really being "in love". If any of these songs remind me of a girl, I'll know she's "really something special" (to quote Woody Allen).

I was feeling like a creep as I watched you asleep
face down in the grass in the park in the middle of a hot afternoon
Your top was untied and I thought how nice it'd be to follow the sweat down your spine.
You're like my best friend
Oh, after a good good drink
you and me wake up and make love
after a deep sleep where I was dreaming
I was dreaming of a

Dreamgirl...

Closer

Current Music: "The Blower's Daughter", Damien Rice

I watched the movie Closer the other day to get in a Natalie Portman mood before Star Wars III. It was sort of disturbing and depressing, especially in the last half, as most empathy for all the main characters was eroded. Great acting and everything... the film probably had its intended effect. I liked the sequences at the start and end of the movie with the Damien Rice song; the music added a lot of emotion to experience. I especially like the last part of the song where "I can't take my eyes off of you" gets replaced with "I can't take my mind off of you"; quite effective, as is starting the lyrics with "and so it is..." which helps suck us into the movie at the very start.

Damien Rice's whole album, "O", is great, if depressing. "Cannonball" actually continues the theme of "The Blower's Daughter", although it has even more poignant lyrics like these. This song actually includes the word "closer" in it a few times even though it wasn't the one used in the movie:

Still a little bit of your taste in my mouth ...
Still a little bit of your face I haven't kissed ...
Still a little bit of your song in my ear ...
You step a little closer to me
So close that I can't see what's going on

"Cheers, darlin'" is a great blusey drinking song, especially when he wrenchingly half-sings the lament "I should have kissed you" in:

And I die when you mention his name
And I lied, I should have kissed you

So here is "The Blower's Daughter"; such sad lyrics!

And so it is
Just like you said it would be
Life goes easy on me
Most of the time
And so it is
The shorter story
No love, no glory
No hero in her sky

I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes...

And so it is
Just like you said it should be
We'll both forget the breeze
Most of the time
And so it is
The colder water
The blower's daughter
The pupil in denial

I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes...

Did I say that I loathe you?
Did I say that I want to
Leave it all behind?

I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind...
My mind...my mind...
'Til I find somebody new