Without Warning

Artistic, romantic types (like us singer-songwriters, yo) often seem to fall in love with goddesses and ghosts. Those conversant in the literature of myth and legend are probably familiar with the deeply troubled relationships that grow when man and immortal become romantically entwined.

I wrote this song in 1974 when I was involved with a goddess -- and a ghost. The goddess was a ringer for 30's screen diva, Carole Lombard, and, by society's then-outmoded standards, was technically otherwise entangled. But I knew it was me she loved, even though she told me she didn't have the courage to be free...

For a young man, a young artist, in that position, deeply torn but deeply in love, intoxicated with the heroic tragicness of the situation, there was little recourse, then, but to lose myself in the arduous work of seducing one of my best friends, a pretty, serious-minded strawberry blond with -- I firmly believe in retrospect -- absolutely no romantic or sexual interest in me -- but who, in her own way, lusted for a sort of platonic but passionate friendship and who seemed to show up, unbidden, on my doorstep at the strangest times.

[UPDATE: I just listened to this again... and, my gosh, it's sloppy -- even by the extraordinarily loose standards of AYoS. Mercy.]

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WITHOUT WARNING

You came without warning
on a Monday morning
the day was all shot through
by shadows from the past
afterimages of the last
time that I was with you

and it didn't take nothing
to see that you were something
that I just had to do
Well it mighta been right
on a Monday night
to release a little energy with you
In the end it came down to you

Now I didn't mean maybe
when I put it to you baby
There's just time space and nothing more
But instead of pain
we could have pleasure again
just like before you heard about the fall

So when you come come
come come come around me
please take some form
please take some from I can see
Well ghosts are fine
but I like some flesh on mine
you can't steal my love
you can't have my love for free
you can't steal my love
you can't have my love for free

Copyright 1974
TK Major