From the recording Camouflage: Stories by T.J. Gerlach
Music by Christopher Gleason / Mule-in-a-Swamp Music (ASCAP)
Lyrics by Christopher Gleason / Mule-in-a-Swamp Music (ASCAP) & Thomas J. Gerlach / Exile Incorporated (ASCAP)
©2024 Sado-Domestics
Based on the short story, "Love Letter, or Lepidoptery" by T.J. Gerlach, from the book CAMOUFLAGE (Lithic Press, 2018)
Lucy Martinez: Vocals
Chris Gleason: Vocals, and All Instruments
Audio engineering, mixing, and production by Christopher Gleason at Noise Floor Delirium, Boston, MA.
Lyrics
Read me
Look back and see
Read me
Love
or lepidoptery
I still look for tattoos
Black and bilingual blues
Cob-webbed library of youth
You
Read me
Look back and see
Read me
Love
or lepidoptery
Siren’s call,
Self-esteem behind
Even if it meant
pretending sometimes
Seduction of the glass white abstraction
Seduction of the glass
Paperback offerings
Dog-fogged, transparent things
Paperback offerings
And youth
Read me
Look back and see
Read me
Love
or lepidoptery
Pulling randomly from the shelves
Love, peace, honor, god, wisdom, self.
Pulling randomly from the shelves
Randomly from ourselves
Read me
Look back and see
Read me
Love
or lepidoptery
Read me
Read me
Read me
Is this love
Or lepidoptery?