05.Wild Mood Swings (1996)

                       it started with a dedication
    "lost in admiration - happy birthday - i'm forever yours - blossom"
                fared red inside a tiny book of butterflies
              i smiled surprised at how when flickered through
                   the wings flew by spelled out my name

                    six months went by the summer lost
               obsessively the letters dropped into my life
                  the same soft blood smooth flowing hand
    "please try to understand - i have to see you - have to feel you -
         tell you all the ways i need you - yours forever in love"

                   strange attraction spreads its wings
                     it varies but the smallest things
                  you never know how anything will change
                   strange attraction spreads its wings
                    and alters but the smallest things
                   you never know how anything will fade

               the year grew old incessantly she wrote to me
                       she'd started smoking poetry!
               i laughed in recognition of a favorite phrase
                           she'd pulled me in...
                              i answered her
                         a christmas card in sepia
                         arranging when and where
                   and how the two of us should meet...
                       her opening so well prepared
                              a nervous smile
                     i couldn't take my eyes from her
                               she whispered
                    "can i use some of your lipstick?"
                       it was perfect so believable
                 i couldn't help but feel that it was real
               and kissing crimson fell into her waiting arms

                   strange attraction spreads its wings
                     it varies but the smallest things
                  you never know how anything will change
                   strange attraction spreads its wings
                    and alters but the smallest things
                   you never know how anything will fade

       so alone into the cold new year without another word from her
       i wrote to ask if we could maybe meet again before the spring
     but weeks went by with no reply until once more my birthday came
       and with it my surprise but this time nothing was the same...

            "i'm sorry - blame infatuation - blame imagination
               i was sure you'd be the one but i was wrong -
    it seems reality destroys our dreams - i won't forget you blossom"
              fared red inside a tiny book of old goodbyes...

                   strange attraction spreads its wings
                     it varies but the smallest things
                  you never know how anything will change
                   strange attraction spreads its wings
                    and alters but the smallest things
                   you never know how anything will fade