(lyric to accompany Thelonious Monk’s “Sweet and Lovely”)
Sweet and lovely.
Sweet Rebecca Lovelybuddy.
Take it, honey –
take this verse and keep it for me.
Lovely lady,
when the evening’s slowly fading,
call me “baby.”
Take this word and say it to me.
Life will baffle,
even in our breezy chapel.
Let me babble.
Let me lisp these words unto thee.
Streetlights glimmer,
twinkle, shimmer.
Doubtful grinner,
take these lines, improve them for me.
Instrumental:
Coltrane blows, with Monk at pedal.
Let’s not meddle.
Slumber through these measures with me.
Through the curtain
dreams surrender, slow and certain.
Don’t alert them!
Take these dreams and dream them for me.
Dawn is peeping,
prying lids of children sleeping.
Feelers creeping…
Take this verse and clean it for me!
Up from China
pops the discus – braver, finer.
Sweet reminder,
grab the sun and dress it for me.
Sweet and lovely,
though you find them grim or funny,
take them, honey –
take these lines and sing them for me.
Take these lines and sing them for me.
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