Cleaning out the garage can lead to strange discoveries. Just the other day, I found something I typed up in 1996 based on lyrics I wrote in 1984. This may be odd enough to be fun.
(Slightly edited today.)
A B-Side Production
"Like a Glove" was inspired by an earlier lyric --"Kid Glove" in 1984 --that I never developed to my satisfaction. I like the satire. Influences? Still Elvis Costello and company, but also harder rock than "The Armor of Your Virtue" or "Different View." A nod to Sting's "Set Them Free" (that revision of "Every Breath You Take") for clues to how I revised the original ending. Value? Meaning? I have my ideas. Another twisted riff on frustrated love and psychology. (I mean, the speaker almost gets it. You'll see.) Sing "Different View" if you want a finer reflection than this funhouse mirror.
LIKE A GLOVE
I've got a coatrack for a conscience
Cat-of-nine-tails on my back
No, I'm not a closet fascist
No, not a clothes horse jockey off the track
Oh, the loose and limber subtleties of love, love, love
I want to fit you like a glove, like a glove
Like a glove I'll fit your hand
Like a lamp I'll light your life
Like a glove, like a glove
Love, love, love
Too many people beating me unconscious
With the bruising boredom of their tongues
What I desire is hardly so atrocious
I want to fly where I've been flung
Oh, the loose and limber subtleties of love, love, love
I want to fit you like a glove, like a glove
Like a glove I'll fit your hand
Like a lamp I'll light your life
You don't wear gloves? --I'll understand
How can my light just blind your eyes?
Oh, the loose and limber subtleties of love, love, love
I want to fit you like --what you want
I want to be the house that you haunt
I want to be your tongue when you taunt
I want to --fit you like a glove
Oh, the loose and limber subtleties of love, love, love
I want to fit you like a glove, like a glove
Like a glove, like a glove
Love, love, love
P.S. I wish that I could recall the tune. I do recall singing this to myself all the time for a while there.
Cheers!
