Sing a Song of Love
from Updated Just Now by Camden Joy
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lyrics
Grab your sons and call your daughters. We’re sailing back where we first started. We limp into uncharted waters. Somewhere there are winds that want us. “Afternoon, dear Algeciras!” Her vinegar lifted our spirits. Amid diesel fumes and interference, Jonny Mekon said he’d love to hear us. So we go on home, play rock and roll, but every rock I climb feels small. Now everyone is hungry. I’ll sing a song of love. Out about a mile from shore the law breaks down on the sea floor, where sailors locked in chains still waltz with mermaids hook in hand. A giant squid plays Princess Diana. You can hear a pirate crying. Whales gracefully glide by and sing a song of love. They sing for all who came before. Sing because we got so far. Sing to soften madman’s hearts. Above a sky of mint toothpaste, a fog rolls in from outer space. A thief enters the house he cased and takes the place of what’s-his-face. The curtain falls. We strike the set. Shakespeare wakes up Juliet, lights her up two cigarettes. “Next week’s Sandusky, dear...” Things between us changed so fast. It seems that now I don’t exist. I see you act like facts are facts while I sing a song of love. The coffin of Nixon’s libido. A “Will You Marry Me” tornado. The virgin’s fed to the volcano. The silent star explodes with laughter. John Henry’s father, there’s a man. He stood tall at sixteen hands. He fought but did he understand that fighters get forgot. The sky gets dark and we get set to meet. They’ll wish we’d never met. They ride to almost certain death. We sing a song of love. A storm broke then. It drenched both sides. We opened up our hearts to hide but first we had to choose our shoes and screw our courage up. Fearsome boys grown fast and fearless, take good care of Algeciras. Even though she will not hear us sing a song of love. Now Stupid does as Stupid’s taught. Stupid feels betrayed because Stupid wishes what he was was sung a song of love. Francine awoke. She shook her head. In the mirror her eyes were red. “I dreamed that all the world was dead, yet you and I survived. But why should I believe in dreams when nothing is how nothing seems? The end may come. The ends may fray. Who’s to say who’s free today?” When you’re thirsty, when you’re sick, call on me and I’ll come quick. The thing I want to do is help and sing a song of love.
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from Updated Just Now,
released January 1, 2020
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Camden Joy Middlebury, Vermont
lo-fi americana and caustic wit swirl about a 1970s suburban garage where a 1950s country band plays timeless originals and succinct gems.
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