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OUR SHAKESPEARE PLAY

from DEMOS by Rick Berlin

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This song. A love song. Bird of Paradise whistling outa my brain. Unrelated to any recalled reality, but I like the imagery and the person(s) I imagine.

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OUR SHAKESPEARE PLAY

i picture you
just ahead of me
on the sidewalk
in a CVS
spying on you
like a kid in a closet
with a flashlight
reading a comic book
oh yeah

dog-ear a page
with yr face on it
n a funny note
reminding me
of the sound
of yr laughter
over a real bad joke
yeah

sometimes i wish
i could make it snow
like they do in a movie
r a broadway show
before the dude
with a gun
shows up just in time
to ruin everything

before ya
kick his ass
before ya
slap my face
before ya
flip a coin
n ya promise
to take me to paris

ya know it
n ya feel it
it’s a love so lucky
like a figure on a beach
in the summer time

a prayer n a
n a song n a
n a firefly
in the night

i like it fine
when we make up stories
about total strangers
being weird
r the 2 of us
stealing bikes
n riding crazy
thru the everglades

r drawing a map
on yr back
where the skin fell off
from a sunburn
peeking at ya naked
thru a shower curtain

C

r you a memory
r you a mystery
r you a dream
r are you right next to me

lying down
in the grass
reading from
our Shakespeare play
thinking that
this love we got
is crossed like stars
in a playwright’s Heaven

10,000 years
lovers lanes
hearts in a frantic
hurry up n take me
to those pretty lights
spinning like a top

C

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from DEMOS, released November 18, 2012
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A giant on the Boston music scene. His colorful songwriting + strong stage presence have influenced countless other artists since the early 1970s. He continues to make music w/ intelligence + integrity, building an international reputation around his knotty, singular piano playing, straight-from-the-heart singing and a style of character-based songwriting that's drawn comparisons to Waits + Cohen ... more

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