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Love Triangles, Oranges, Glasses & Pigtails

// 22nd June

A mixtape of the junk I’ve been listening to over the last couple of months. You’ve probably heard it in my car. It has three sides, not two, which makes for an awkward shaped tape I am sure. It’s a sequel to last December’s mixtape. It contains an entire Elbow album–just because they are all that, and for some reason, an awful lot of references to oranges.

Also my iPod Touch infiltrated the process and added an overture. No idea what’s going on there.

Overture

Touch it, scroll it, pause it, click it, cross it, crack it, twitch, update it

(Write it, cut it, paste it, save it)
They wanted me to be a designer
But I came out on top

(I’m a fireman)
If you havin’ girl problems I feel bad for you son

(I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain’t one!)

Side A

She’s got such beautiful lips
They call like oranges to the thirsty man

(Leave Josie alone
You’ve got to leave that girl alone
She didn’t ask for you
Could she be sitting there longing for someone to take her home?)
She’s so good looking in a way that’s hers

(She’s kinda sexy, in a crazy way)
She gave me this warning
Don’t let it pass you by
Woke up this evening
With her words still on my mind
Thought you could come over

(We’d have a real good time)
Hello how you doin’?

(We’re the young educated boys and girls of the first world)
Met a girl–introduced myself
I asked her to go with me and no one else
And she said I’d really like to see you everyday

(Bottle of wine and some cigarettes
Watch TV and go to bed)
Acting like
I haven’t dreamed of you and I
And marriage in an orange grove

(The violets explode inside me
When I meet your eyes
Then I’m spinning and I’m diving
Like a cloud of starlings
Darling is this love?)
And it’s you and it’s May

(When out of a doorway the tentacles stretch
Of a song that I know and the world moves in slow-mo
Straight to my head like the first cigarette of the day)
We took the town to town last night
We kissed like we invented it

(And we made the moon our mirrorball
The streets an empty stage
The city sirens violins
Everything has changed)
There’s a hole in my neighbourhood
Down which of late I cannot help but fall

(I’d bring you further roses but it does you no good)
Where could she be?
No, she won’t come running
Where could she be?
The world is turning at her pace

(I have an audience with the Pope)
We had the drive and the time on our hands

(Just figuring how we were wired inside)
Your hand slipped…

(Gentle, gentle love)
In penguins and pearls we’ll drink and we’ll dance
Till the end of our days
‘Cause it ain’t left to chance that we win

(The fix is in)
And it’s breaking my heart to pour like the rain

(Beautiful, quivering, chivalrous shambles)
Kiss me like a final meal
Yeah, kiss me like we die tonight

(Blinking in the morning sun
Shaking off a heavy one
Heavy like a loaded gun
What made me behave that way?
Using words I never say?)
So… gentle shoulder charge…

(Love you)
World do your worst

(She and I have closed our eyes)
Cold hands, warm heart

(You’re too quiet, I’m too loud)
You’re warmed by the city glow

(I won’t let you down Victoria)
Well you’re the cutest thing that I ever did see
I really love your peaches I wanna shake your tree

(’Cause I’m a picker, I’m a grinner
I’m a lover and I’m a sinner)
You’re dancing around in your pants and your bra

(And I’m thinking that I could have fun with someone like you)
The way you’re dancing
Makes me come alive
Makes me shiver and perspire

(I need a change)
Rows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air

(Tears and fears and feeling proud to say I love you right out loud)
Dirty old town

(Look at the girl with four phones in her pocket
Look at the man helping you to see God
Secretaries on a train in sexetary stockings
I look at those stockings man, I think I see God)
Dress sexy at my funeral my good wife
And when it comes your turn to speak before the crowd
Tell them about the time we did it
On the beach with fireworks above us
On the railroad tracks with the gravel in your back

(But most of all don’t forget about the time on the beach
With fireworks above us!)

Side B

It’s been a year
It doesn’t surprise me
Happy Christmas
I wrapped it up and sent it
With a note saying I love you
And meant it
Now I know what a fool I’ve been
But if you kissed me now
I know you’d fool me again

(I’m hiding from you)
I bet you think that’s pretty clever
Don’t you boy

(You will be the one who cannot talk)
If you think that I don’t know
About depression and emotional pain
You’re insane

(You’re a fool who hasn’t paid attention)
You, the only one who knew me
And now your eyes see through me

(I guess I was wrong)
Please don’t tell me it’s too late
If you love someone don’t throw it all away

(Tell me it’s not over)
I thought we were on the same train
You were still at the station

(I would tear it down to bring you back to me)
Do you think of the one you lost
Late at night while you count the cost?

(It started off so well)
If you don’t intend to see it through
Why did we ever start?

(Do you wanna lose our love together
Do you find a new romance?)
Should have known something was wrong

(If it comes down to the drugs or you
Baby we’re through!)
Keep working on the problem
We know we’ll never solve
Of love’s uneven remainders

(Like a bowl of oranges)
As the orange globe rears up to swallow us two
I see you look at me and figure out what I know about you

(As the sun becomes a blazing orange ball of fire
I lose interest in this and other such inconsequential questions)
Every face I see, weeps with a colour I can’t describe
Weeping tears and dreams that are just swept aside

(I know there’s something sick
With what I’ve been sold
I’ve been tricked, poisoned, mislead
In what I’ve been told)
When I hear the screeching weather vane
In the wild wind and the pissing rain
I know that one of us, I’m not saying who
Has got rocks in her head

(I know I’ve been right all along
And you start singing that stupid children’s song
You think I don’t know it
But I just don’t feel like singing it
Sure do love you)
I lost my heart it didn’t take no time
But that ain’t all I lost my mind in Oregon

(Well, sloe gin fizz works mighty fast
When you drink it by the pitcher and not by the glass)
I can’t live my life like this, boy

(All alone!)

Side C

Never heard a song from a siren
I’m a real virgin island
I’ve never been in love before
Yeah I’m uncharted
Innocent hearted
No lover’s discovered me

(Won’t you put me on the map baby
‘Cause I’m overlooked
I flounder unhooked
My beautiful beach ignored)
This song has only got happy words

(It’s only got major chords)
This kiss

(The power of orange knickers!)