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lyrics
POP SHIELD
We were only human. I said something I shouldn’t have said to you. Oh, love, I would always love you but you know I don’t mean it like I should. Somehow, I got hurt and then it took my heart and made me kind of cold to anybody else, come in, and you were good. You know just what I need, you know how to treat me. I would have loved you like I should have done, but hey, life gets in the way. It runs its dark, dark, cruelty through our systems. I know that you are the one but I never let it come on because I do not want to lose equilibrium. You never said you were only going to stay a short, short time, I thought you’d be here for long. I never want to doubt the way you were with me, the way you held my body that night. And love, I want to be your woman more than in your dreams. Will you feel me IRL, so I find out what it means? This loving touch, that can fill me up when nothing really can fill our cup but us. And the flowers they do grow and the birds they do sing and my body it is yours, every bit of me. And I know that I was here to do something. I just search for that kind of meaning in every interaction, every walk down the street, every gaze caught in the middle, mid-flight. I am running away from only myself and all that I mean but my love you do it for me.
If I could I’d plant a kiss right upon your mouth. It would haunt you forever, keep your dreaming bluer than the ocean where we swim in your dreams and mine and we can be our bodies, entwined.
"I love you." Do you hear me saying it? Moving my lips close to the microphone, I am touching the pop shield. I want to be with you, but it never can be, we are thwarted too, we are thwarted eternally. So instead, I sing this song and I’ll dedicate it to you and your beautiful lips, how I’d kiss them what I’d do, if I only could be one day with you, just one day with you, just one day. What would I do with that day? Would it be as good as my imagination wants to believe or would it be a common let down? Who knows it’s hard to tell? But one thing I’d do for you is hold your hand by the riverside. I would whisper something (…) that you would never forget. I would hold your hand and I would take it to my chest and I would bring you closer love and you would do something real. And I would feel it in my body, tingling upside down, tingling inside out, tingling all the way. What do I want to say to you? What could you do for me anyway? This is not some kind of transactional relationship. We’re not quid pro quo, do that, and I’ll do that for you. We are better than that, and I would send you something you could never send me back. And I will only say to you that I will love you true, forever in my heart, my bones, my skin. There is a part of me for you and I hold you in my heart, and I always will, and there we'll never part.
credits
from Blackout Baby,
released December 20, 2023
Written, composed, performed, produced by Sam Lou Talbot (2023).
Mastered by Nick Lewis, Old Cottage Audio.
Sam Lou Talbot is an English singer-songwriter, producer, performance artist, and experimental composer based in Glasgow,
U.K. Talbot has released three studio albums: her “beautifully intense” debut Mer-Made (2018); Body Down (2021), described as “unswerving, magnetic music from the hidden wilds of human reality.” (From the Margins); and the incendiary and cosmic magnum opus Space Junk (2023). ...more
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