My Love Is Too Much-Vanessa Daou

[ti:My Love Is Too Much] [ar:Vanessa Daou] [al:Zipless] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Love Is Too Much - Vanessa Daou [00:46.73]My love is too much [00:51.45] [00:53.05]It embarrasses you [00:54.38] [00:59.21]Blood poems babies [01:02.88] [01:05.00]Red needs that telephone [01:06.95] [01:08.37]From foreign countries [01:11.12]Black needs that spatter [01:12.93] [01:13.95]The pages [01:15.52] [01:16.05]Of your white papery heart [01:20.32] [01:46.03]You would rather have a girl [01:50.10]With simpler needs [01:51.49] [01:52.16]Lunch sex undemanding [01:55.82]Loving [01:56.64] [01:58.19]Dinner wine bed [02:01.21] [02:03.34]The occasional blow job [02:05.34] [02:06.33]And needs that are never [02:08.00]Red as gaping wounds [02:11.74] [02:12.75]But cool and blue [02:14.93]As television screens [02:16.46]In tract houses [02:17.89] [03:54.77]Oh my love [03:55.92] [03:57.61]Those simple girls [04:00.06]With simple needs [04:01.37] [04:03.47]Read my books too [04:05.80] [04:07.22]They tell me they feel [04:08.82] [04:09.36]The same as I do [04:11.14] [04:12.83]They tell me I transcribe [04:15.17]The language of their hearts [04:16.95] [04:18.72]They tell me I translate [04:20.64] [04:21.61]Their mute unspoken pain [04:25.65] [04:26.66]Into the white light [04:29.29] [04:29.84]Of language [04:31.11] [04:32.85]Oh love [04:34.21] [04:35.63]No love [04:36.18]Is ever wholly undemanding [04:41.38] [04:42.17]It can pretend coolness [04:44.20] [04:45.11]Until the pain comes [04:47.11] [04:47.83]Until the first baby comes [04:51.20] [04:52.98]Howling her own infant need [04:56.88]Into a universe [04:59.20] [05:00.41]That never summoned her [05:02.81] [05:08.67]The love you seek [05:09.83] [05:10.76]Cannot be found [05:11.76] [05:13.20]Except in the white pages [05:17.40]Of recipe books [05:20.96] [05:25.08]It is cooking you seek [05:26.91] [05:28.13]Not love [05:29.11] [05:31.36]Cooking with sex coming after [05:33.08] [05:34.45]Cool sex [05:35.84] [05:36.86]That speaks to the penis alone [05:39.14] [05:40.84]Not the howling chaos [05:43.80]Of the heart