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Lorriane

from The Songster by Brooks Long

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I’m never going to finish this new painting.
I’ll never make enough to pay the rent.
The creaking floors are my only music, [Slow down]
Bb Eb D
and the brush and palette are my only friends

I’ve got to get out of this apartment.
The cold light shivers through my bones.
Every Thursday, I walk to the market
and I see an angel heaven cannot hold.

Lorraine, queen of Express-line 4
In ancient times of yore
I’d sing a lovers plea
But Lorraine, my belly is full of rum
I’m a bum and I always will be

Today is the day I’ll find the courage
I’ll find it in the corner liquor store.
But as she does a price check on bananas,
I realize that she deserves much more

The streets are painted with discarded garbage.
The wind blows ghosts of plastic bags.
All my life, I’ve searched this town for beauty.
Is it something I deserve to have?

[Chorus]

I have determined I will have you.
Caress each line of your face.
Finally, someone to behold to
and keep away the temporal world’s decay

I’ll keep you wrapped up, hidden in my closet
whenever someone dropping by might see.
The thought of sharing you makes me nervous.
Lorraine, you know you mean so much to me.

The critics would get lost inside your iris.
They’d say you are my greatest work by far.
They’d put you for auction like a slave,
but they don’t even know who you are.

[Chorus]

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from The Songster, released October 27, 2011

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