And What Is Love

from It's Already Started by Martin Blasick

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John Keats' take on love is so caustic I thought I'd drop an extra cymbal on top of the crash and the ride cymbal for a trashier sound. Thumbing through his collected works he doesn't seem so romantic for a romantic poet. Quite a good read though and he really knows how to turn a phrase. It kind of blurted out on bass.vocal and a click. I had to relearn the melody that came out. For you super experts out there, I never caught onto Keats' form so the setting might not be divied up properly as far as what lines should be in one verse and when should they spill into the next.

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And what is love? It is a doll dressed up
For idleness to cosset, nurse, and dandle;

A thing of soft misnomers, so divine
That silly youth doth think to make itself
Divine by loving, and so goes on

Yawning and doting a whole summer long,Till Miss’s comb is made a pearl tiara,

And common Wellingtons turn Romeo boots;
Till Cleopatra lives a Number Seven,
And Antony resides in Brunswick Square.

Fools! if some passions high have warmed the world,
If queens and soldiers have played deep for hearts,

It is no reason why such agonies
Should be more common than the growth of weeds.

Fools! make me whole again that weighty pearl
The queen of Egypt melted, and I’ll say
That ye may love in spite of beaver hats.

And what is love? And what is love?

And what is love? It is a doll dressed up
For idleness to cosset, nurse, and dandle;
And what is love? It is a doll dressed up
And what is love? It is a doll dressed up
And what is love? And what is love?
And what is love? And what is love?

music by Martin Blasick
words by John Keats

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from It's Already Started, released December 27, 2010
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