(Elegy #2) Love Is Gonna Set You Free

from Hoard by Toby Jackson

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This started life as a jaunty pop song; the bass line never quite got over the transition.

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Wish I was an apple pip
You swallowed accidentally.
I’d plant roots inside your belly,
Grow tall so you might just notice me.

I’m up and down,
Top bottom strange and charm,
I’m using juices up like batteries,
Higher than the redwood tree,

Just turn your face more toward me,
I like the conversation,
I like it more when we’re alone
And you give more information,

On how you may as well be one,
And I may as well not be,
And only then do I remember,
That love is gonna is set you free.

When I remember,
That hallowed week so long ago,
I don’t know how I cared so much,
Or why it refuses to go,

And lingering in my inner thoughts,
The lies you’ll never see:
You’ll forget her one day,
Then love is gonna set you free.

Can you hurry up and get married?
Put all your worries in the bridal carriage.
Get hitched in Japan and planning a baby,
Stop leaving me on your ifs buts and maybes.

It’s not like I wake every night for your touch,
But I still go on waiting to see.
Only then do I remember…

And I’ve given up hoping for a change of heart,
When fifty-six miles didn’t tear you apart,
And whenever you look in my general direction,
I’m not holding out for any greater affection.

I know that I never stood a chance
But tell that to the part of me
That still believes
Love is gonna come to me.

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from Hoard, released January 7, 2015

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Toby Jackson is a singer-songwriter in York, but also Cambridge.

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