My love is so so wonderful...

New little song I been a-workin' on...

Lyrics:

Summer's here and the air is getting horny

I think I see a girl I like

I try my lines and even though they're kinda corny

She says she's gonna give me a try

So I took her for a picnic by the swings on Tooting Bec

And in the sun she took her jumper off

I felt the beat of my heart

Caught a glimpse of her bra

And with the nod of an angel

Touched my lips to her neck

She said, you can have me if you want me

Anyway you like

I said, well please don't think I'm dirty

But I'd love to get in you and hold you tight

Then she rolled me over on my back

And looked real deep in my eyes

She said, I like a man who knows what he wants

Let's get it on down

Let's get it on up

Let's get it on in

Let's get freaky!

My love is so so wonderful girl

It's like a rocket taking off for the sun

My love is big and it's beautiful

I swear there's enough for everyone

And your love is like the ocean, it's deep and it's wet

Your love's so good, it's as good as it gets

My love is like an old-fashioned record machine

Pumpin' rockin' seven inches

You know what I mean

(Well, uh, wait, stop)

She said, what about children?

I said, yeah, I'd like two or three

She said, no, I mean what happens if we make one?

I said, well that's fine with me

Well I swear I never felt this way before

But everything about this feels right

So I threw my worries in a pile on the floor

And I let it all out

And I let it all in

And I let it all go

And we got juicy

My love is so so wonderful girl

It's like a rocket taking off for the sun

My love is big and it's beautiful

I swear there's enough for everyone

And your love is like the ocean, it's deep and it's wet

Your love's so good, it's as good as it gets

Our love is like an old log cabin deep in the snow

My arms around you, fire burning, and nowhere to go

You can be what you want in my company

You can get drunk, you can shit yourself in front of me

I'll never beat you, never make you my enemy

I will live for you, die for you

Take off all my clothes and do a dance for you

I will hold you till we're all fools

And give you all the lovin' you need

My love is so so wonderful girl

It's like a rocket taking off for the sun

My love is big and it's beautiful

I swear there's enough for everyone

My love is deep, like the ocean is blue

It's comin' hard, it's comin' for you

My love is like the fire in a hot air balloon

Rising slowly it'll take you up as high as the moon

This love this love this love this love

This love was cooked up for us by the angels above

They served it on a platter for you and me

Said, take ye and eat, we know what that means

My love is all you'll ever need and want and what's more

My love is the whole reason that God made the world

There you go: them's the words. It's obviously a mostly very silly song - need to work on getting some jollity into the delivery - which I originally wanted to be much dirtier, inspired by the realisation that all these songs about "spending the night together" and "lovin' you all night long" were actually really sleazy demands by guys to bang chicks and didn't really have anything to do with love. But we all like a bit of sex so why not just say it? Well, I tried and I realised: beating around the bush, as it were, and innuendos are just a hell of a lot more palatable. Still, it doesn't take much imagination to gather that the word "love" in various parts of this song can quite happily be substituted with the words "cock" or "sperm" or "pussy" - which I suppose is kinda gross. Also, what I wanted was something ridiculous, hence ideas like rockets to the sun, hot air balloons to the moon, etc. Really struggled with the words for a long time - mostly just had vague ideas and the middle eight for about a year - but then one night I decided to sing whatever came into my head to my roommate Tom, about him, and from there I got a first verse which helped the rest of it just flow. And, funnily enough, the first verse was the last thing I changed. Originally it went:

I remember the first time that I saw you

I thought you were really small

But that was in a picture

And you were just standing next to someone tall

Still think it's a good verse. But something about the new one sits better with me. And takes me back to whole idea I had for the song last summer, which was how it goes in an English city when the sun comes out and the days start to get warm and everybody starts showing some skin and we all get a little bit hot under the collar. Sex is everywhere baby!

Anyways, maybe a little more work on the very end, perhaps a couple of new last lines. And on singing it better. And then realising that I can't actually sing that well and finding someone who can. Other than that, pretty happy.

Cheers!

PS Thanks to Lizzie Hibbert for the line "you can shit yourself in front of me" - she'll go quite literally mental if I don't credit her! :-)