Vera letra

(in which igor practices his american
in the form of notes to his wife)

oh vera i can't complain but
when, when will you write?
this city is strange
and strangely bright
sooner or later i'll change

oh vera my cough is silent
and Sunset is setting up fine
there's work for me here
and here is my work
while we wait for my lungs to dry

oh vera tonight i'm lost
what makes me live for this craft?
i'm going nowhere
my music's a bust
even our neighbors just laugh

oh vera we must see a film
i think that it might change my life
something with garland
who's down on her luck
the kind of picture i like

oh vera i'm full of it now
who knew that notes could be fun?
i'm counting to 12 and
then back to one
i feel i'm a writer again

oh vera i'm truly content
i'm waiting alone for a friend
a helluva poet
a hollywood type
who turns up the words on their end

oh vera i'm reading the news
i can do nothing but cry
the opera was summer
an apple just fell
it's funny how well poets lie.

Erin McKeown - Letras

• 23 November
• A Better Wife
• A Certain Pleasure
• Air
• An Innocent Fiction
• Aspera
• Beautiful (I Guess)
• Bells And Bombs
• Blackbirds
• Born To Hum
• Cinematic
• Circle Of Four
• Civilians
• Cosmopolitans (Tri-Factor Remix)
• Daisy And Prudence
• December 10
• Delicate December
• Didn't They
• Dirt Gardener
• Easy Baby
• Envelopes Of Glassine
• Fast As I Can
• Float
• Good Friend Martin
• Good To See You
• Heartaches And Sorrows
• How to be a lady
• How To Open My Heart In 4 Easy Steps
• James!
• Katy You Live
• La Petite Mort
• Life On The Moon
• Love In Two Parts
• Lucky Day
• Lullaby In 3/4
• Mary Jane
• Monday Morning Cold
• My Hips
• Paper Moon
• Pink Elephant
• Pop Song
• Pride To Sell
• Queen Of Quiet
• Say Goodbye
• Slung-Lo
• Softly Moses
• Something Comes
• The Door
• The Golden Dream
• The Little Cowboy
• The Taste of You
• To a Hammer
• To The Stars
• Vera
• We Are More
• Weasel Boy
• Weight
• White City
• You Don't Know
• You Were Right About Everything