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And although I try not to encumber you with irreflexive boosterism, I can’t stifle an endorsement of Patricia Barber’s singing and musicianship. I listen to music for much of my day — I don’t always *hear* it as I’m doing other things, but it it strikes the right note I do. Barber has a dusky, lower-pitched voice, like Diana Krall, and her renditions are unfailingly, often startingly, arresting, lyrical, head-turning. I never tire of hearing her, and I tire easily of certain music. I cite her lyrics to the song “I Could Eat Your Words” below. It’s from her album entitled “Verse.” The song presses all kinds of buttons on a linguist.
“I Could Eat Your Words” (lyric by Patricia Barber)
philosophy engenders a Rational man
Descartes would be the first to agree
syllogistically speaking if ‘A’ is you
and ‘B’ is me
logical proposition will lead us to’C’
Aristotle conditioned the Greeks to indulge
the brain and the body agree
psychologically speaking if the student can teach,
the teacher can learn,
lets leave the thinking to me
simplicity can charm the intellectual beast
a three-word phrase will suffice
hedonistically speaking if ‘food is for thought’
then ‘thought is or food,’ and
teacher, “I want you” tonight
i could eat your words
suck the salt from your ‘erudition’
light a fire under ‘inhibition’
season ‘reason’ with a transitive verb
i could eat your mind
sweeten ‘no’ with ‘equivocation’
blend your phrases with ‘provocation’
sip the spit from your bittersweet rhyme
poets need a holiday
professors need adulation
you can talk and talk
the right away
and make no case for ‘moderation’
i’ll drink ‘remorse’ like a cabernet
champagne with ‘indecision’
‘guilt’ like garlic
needs to sauté with cream, butter
and wine
I could eat your words
melt ‘objection’ with ‘stimulation’
simmer ‘truth’ with ‘prevarication’
taste your ‘virtue’ and ‘honor’ and ‘time’
baby teach me tonight
Copyright (c) 2018 James Mansfield Nichols. All rights reserved.
You got the lyrics in there copy/pasted twice, if you wanna’ go back and edit. Nice performance, and it has xylophone or vibraphone or whatever. I’m a big fan of all the instruments in that range, including gamelan…
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Thanks for letting me know! I thought something went funny there, but didn’t pick up on it.
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Feel free to point out my mistakes, or the more egregious and embarrassing ones, anyway. It’s like having a free editor.
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