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Summer Suite Introduction: Indiscretion (Mess Things Up)

from Spanish Armada (Songs of Love and Related Neuroses) by Mark Lint

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Written 7/30, recorded 11/93, remixed in 2016

As the title indicates, this begins The Summer Suite, which takes up all of side 2 of this album. The songs were written in the order presented, and all played as they emerged to the girl I was hanging out with in the summer of 1993. This song was the first indiscretion.

We were pretty inseparable for a few months, but she had a boyfriend, so it never got beyond a certain point. Perfect motivation for songwriting as sublimation (and attempted manipulation?).

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Don't know quite what I should say
But I do know what I should not
At the times when things get this way
I'm usually thinking a lot

So I inevitably talk too much
Out of fear of being unreal
Despite the desire for a human touch
I think we control what we feel

So I'm not saying it's gone too far
Or that the set-up is making me weak
Though overreactive, I feel strong
I will not become meek

Of course I like you, how could I not?
What with the way we get along and all
I think about you, how could I not?
And I don't want to mess things up

I couldn't want you to change your ways
It's not my place, I know
I'd be thrilled just to keep these days
But it's moving forward; should I stop it?
I should not ask, but I must know
If you're as confused as what you show
As how I feel: alive and well
I hope that this won't break that spell
And no one gets hurt

So I'm not saying it's got to change
But I had to get out what was in
Whether indiscretion or honesty
You should know that you're under my skin

Of course I like you, how could I not?
What with the way we get along and all
I think about you and him you've got
And I don't want to mess things up

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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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