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Lorraine Feather - Attachments lyrics


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There was the love you called your first,
The one with the break-up you mishandled the worst,
The love who seemed to like being wrong,
The one who inspired you to write that song,
Fragile but strong, winding endlessly along,
The silver string of your attachments.

There was the love you grew to hate,
The one who reminded you to stand up straight,
The love you worshipped but would never touch,
The one whose compliments were a little too much,
All tagged with a destination, never going anywhere as such,
The steady march of your attachments.

You were arch, you were smart,
But incautious of heart.
You would leave and be left,
Be satiated, then bereft,
Bewitched, bored,
Tangled up in discord,
Be then again alone.

There was the love
Who left you for the love formerly known as
The love that dared not speak its name;
There was the one who thought all holidays were lame,
Sweetly, steadily, feeding the flame,
Your craven hunger for attachments.

You called it love.
What moved you more
Was the quiet scratch
At your entry door,
Was the longtime friend
You thought you’d keep,
Who suddenly cut you
Canyon-deep.
An addled guy
Lives down the hall.
You look after him,
As do we all.
He says that Central Park
Is covered in an alien glow.
You roll your eyes, but think,
Hey, man, what do I know?

There was the love who opened your eyes,
The one with a purpose to cut you down to size,
The love whose anger left you pale and wan,
The one whose wavelength
You loved being on.
Late at night you gaze amazedly upon
The vast panorama of your attachments.

Where are you, where are you going with this, honestly,
Stopping and starting and never getting anywhere?
You wish you knew, you say, over your umbrella drink.
I don’t know where you’re going with this and I don’t want to talk about it.
I don’t want to talk about it.

There was the one whose mere name
You could never think of without a little rush.
It was more than a crush.

Sometimes when I’m not paying attention,
I wander into another dimension,
Beyond some distant star,
And there you are.

Cover: Lorraine Feather - Attachments
  • Attachments

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  • 2013

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Music by Eddie Arkin / Lyrics, Lorraine Feather

This was conceived as a †œlist song,† detailing the singer†™s various romantic entanglements. I had many scraps of ideas written, and for the middle part, my co-writer Eddie Arkin chose some lines that veered off the main subject to describe the person†™s non-romantic emotional ties. Eddie wrote an evocative, impressionistic accompaniment for this section. We then went back to a verse, continuing the †œlist† theme. The song ends with two people having a drink together and one of them making a confession.
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