ONLY TONITE
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only tonite
she'll play for you
fill the room
lay her heart bare in a song
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come take your chance
willowtree she sways and bends
she'll amaze you when she dances
one time only
this star will come whizzing by
leave it's dazzling trail of light
'cross the sky fill your eye
turn your gaze
inside
only tonite!
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only tonite
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She’s sleeping, it’s 2 PM, a liitle while ago I recorded the guitar and now I’m doing the vocals – sleepwalking, dancing, she enters the room, feeling out the tones in the air with her fingertips, her hands reaching out to an invisible partner, gracefully, in slow motion; my voice falters; in wonder she opens her eyes, looks around, realizing where she is she says ”I was dreaming of beautiful music!” I play the recording I just made and she says: “You have to sing this in a different voice, slightly below your breath, so it gets a quality of silence-” “Dearest, do you know Chet Baker?” We sit down, I show her an old video of Chet singing: “You don’t know how hearts burn for Love that cannot live yet never dies; till you have seen each dawn with sleepless eyes you don’t know what Love is –” She nods; of course she knows, only too well!
(from my book "Morningsnow")