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Written and recorded 11/93, remixed 3/03. The sputtering on the vocal mic at the climactic moment was present in the original recording, but I was otherwise happy with the performance and thought that it was like my passion was melting the equipment.

Now, during the recording of this album, I was pursuing this non-relationship remote. In the course of this, I started hanging out and having deep conversations with a different woman, whom I was NOT pursuing, but Alaska girl found out and was not pleased.

This rather bardic (in that it has endless verses) song was my response. It was very legalistic of me to provide myself an out re. these proclamations of eternal devotion, i.e. "at least to the edge of despair." I was pretty much already there at this point.

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Don't know quite what I should say
I think I've said enough
Am I losing you?

I don't know quite what I should say
If nothing can change your mind
But I like it the way that it is
Even though it may kick me behind

I wish you well
But I love you much more
Or could you tell?
Or is my language too poor?

Should I be more explicit
In the things that I do?
Or would you just miss it
If I started to act more like you?

Ah, the dictates of loneliness, damn
Are a master that's so hard to shake
Let me state for the record, my dear
What I lack the endurance to fake

I wish you the moon and a forest
And some sun in your four-hour day
I wish you eternally happy
But I'm glad just to know you're okay

I wish you your breed of perfection
A cute yellow lab just like Duke
I wish for you so much affection
It would make a lesser man puke

I wish you greatness and power
And more than an hour with me
I could stream past your marks of perfection
If only you'd listen to me

Understand that I never would hurt you
I will not desert you
If I know I'm under your skin
I will wander the earth in the search
For some way to get in

I will send you my body and soul
In installments by mail
I will run with you
I will call on you
We will see eye to brain
If you'll let me through
Understand me, you
Hold the key to my pain

I will call up the Spanish Armada
To protect you from me
'Cause I won't touch those soft spots again
In caressing you, babe, just say when

I can't believe that with one foolish slip
I could mess things way up past repair
Can you hear in the tone of my breathing
I'd give it all up to be there with you
[Redacted], my love to the grave
Or at least to the edge of despair

God, I miss you so much I can taste it
Please let me know part of me's there
Am I losing the best thing that's happened
Since mankind discovered the verb?
I will do it for you, my unfaithful
'Cause actions are heavy
And words come too easy for me
I would lose them for you

I love you

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from Spanish Armada (Songs of Love and Related Neuroses), released December 20, 1993

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Mark Lint Madison, Wisconsin

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