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Brooklyn Lovesick

from Arts & Crafts EP by Jahn Sood

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Brooklyn Lovesick
Jahn Sood 10/13/10

Across the river I'm Conrad's Kurtz
I keep secrets until it hurts.
Lost in a jungle of Brooklyn bricks.
Surrounded by kids with the same old tricks.
Converse All Stars, yellow tights,
Their beating drums keep me up all night.
I only killed one and they all bowed down.
It was easy for me to take the crown.
Please don't tell my intended.

In Brooklyn, I'm Captain Ahab.
I throw harpoons from in a cab
To kill the beast that came and ate
My stable ground and steady gait.
But even blood will not return
My severed limb, my vital burn.
In Brooklyn I seek revenge alone.
I wish she'd call me on the phone.
This was never what I intended.

I am Greenpoint's Odysseus
Lost on a crosstown Brooklyn bus.
Been headed home since the Trojan War.
But Ithaca's not what it was before.
Not after I've heard the sirens' call,
Seen Circe's cave and the Cyclops' fall.
Brooklyn's poetry; Brooklyn's death.
When songs of home run out of breath,
My secret world will have ended.

She said, "I can't go to New York, baby.
Go chase your legends, then come back
Maybe I'll be home."
I went alone.

When I wrote the Inferno in a coffee bar
I thought maybe I'd gone too far,
But the Italian Roast and Beatrice
Said, "You can go down deeper than this,
You and your heroes read too many books.
Don't give up on love for those dreamers and crooks.
Virgil made it back from the center of Hell.
Brooklyn's just part of your story to tell.
Your life is not upended.

She said, "You've got to stay in New York, baby.
Go chase your legends, then come back
Maybe she'll be home."
So, I went alone.

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from Arts & Crafts EP, track released April 26, 2012
Written, Performed and Recorded by Jahn Sood with Rebekah Melocik (vocals), Ben Bonnema (vocals), Felice Kuan (Cello), Or Matias (Organ).

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Jahn Sood is a songwriter, impresario and colored-pencil wielder who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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