New Song - "lovehungry"

About this song:

In the following order:

1. I was visiting my parents and found some funny poetry that I wrote back in high school.
2. I heard Frances' amazing cover of Yeats' The Lake Isle of Innisfree on FAWM.
3. John A sent me a guitar piece he'd recorded and asked me if I wanted to add some lyrics.
4. I made the obvious mental leap.

My process:

1. Listened to John's guitar part once or twice just to get a rough idea of how it goes.
2. Recorded myself singing the poem-- no planning, no second takes. I wanted to come up with something as raw and organic as possible (mmm raw and organic).

I might come back to this later-- ask John to re-record the guitar to a click-track, add some loops, tighten up the lyrics, etc. The ending is really abrupt right now and it's because I ran out of music and couldn't finish the poem, ha.

Also, John's guitar-ing is really beautiful, but every time I get to the part where I sing "to make the whole like the hole in me" I start laughing. Oh, high school.

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lovehungry

sweet hell-bent
lovehungry:
your desire swells to me like
a red balloon at the Fair
on a hot summersticky after noon

but still not Fair as i wished
on a well you'd be,
thirsty for my kiss, but
still doorslamming mad,
i'm wanting to bash in the
wall to make the
whole like the hole
in me--

but i'm all emptied out like my
crack ed coffee cup
and you are the glue
i need

how many
doors opened last tuesday
to your heart