If You Want to Be My Lover

from Play the Part by Phil and the Flying Leap

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lyrics

Yesterday they found my lover
(My lover with the golden hair)
When they told me he was dead
How I sighed and hanged my head
Outliving your lover’s
A burden to bear

An hour ago they found my lover
(My lover with the fiery hair)
Though the news was no surprise,
How the tears poured out my eyes
To show ‘em a lover
With someone who cared

What’s to uncover
In the language of a lover
Alone in the night?
What went unstated
Got a little complicated
Between bark and bite
(To Hell if I’m right)

And now I heard they found my lover
(My lover with the raven hair)
I was told he’d heard it said
What became of Gold and Red
So I smothered my lover
And now we’re square

So if you want to be my lover
And feel my fingers through your hair
I can hold you through the nights
In this cell of bars and stripes
Just know, as my lover,
You’d better beware

credits

from Play the Part, released December 10, 2021
Produced by Forrest Pettengill and Phil Berman
Arranged by Brandon Wilkins
Engineered by Joel Edinberg at Q Division Studios and Zumix
Mixed by Noah Georgeson
Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering, Boston, MA
Assistant Mastering Engineer Maria Rice

Phil Berman - Vocals, guitar, music and lyrics
Forrest Pettengill - Upright bass, banjo
Sue Buzzard - Violin, backing vocals

Brandon Wilkins - Clarinet, alto saxophone
Joel Edinberg - Baritone Saxophone
Jon Weidley - Trumpet
Pete Fanelli - Trombone

Abigail Courage - Backing Vocals

Dave Brophy - Drums

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New Americana Vaudeville music made proudly in Massachusetts, USA.

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