Feeling maudlin, today.
Previously we’ve spoken of those songs that resonate most on the late night drives through darkness. Today though is the first really hot and beautiful day of this year (here in Michigan at least). Life will out, and sometimes there is nothing to do but enjoy it.
The following are the lyrics for today's tune which is from the 1993 album Pain Makes You Beautiful, by the Judybats. I’d followed this group since their debut in 1990, and this album was always my favorite. It struck the right chord in my life at the time. The song is “All Day Afternoon” and its lyrics tread the line between poetry and painful doggerel. Still, I find them a paean to the hope and promise I remember, back when I was young enough to still have some.
Love receive this Romeo
Novice see, novice do
Novice shake and need someone and hope some sweet survive
Radiance reveal itself
Have someone say him beautiful
Beautiful beyond the eye, beyond this flesh nontruth
CHORUS
All day afternoon I-love-ya's
All day afternoon let sun shine down
All day afternoon taking things as the come and then so gently watching
them go
Gently traipsing on the wire
Falling soon, falling soon
Falling preclude being one with every non-new thing
Lifting up and letting blow
Swaling down
Swirling go
Swirling into open arms
Embrace him youngsung youth
CHORUS
Waiting for the coronation of gods
Paper thin the poetry come rapture my heart
Gear me in the griding moon and turn me to dust
Let me levitate and learn the loins of love's lust
Love receive this Romeo
Novice see, novice go
Novice shake and need someone to rip him through this ride
Radiance reveal itself
Have someone say him beautiful
Beautiful beyond the lie that flesh will tell the truth
CHORUS
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