Looks Like Love - by Stu McMeans

i apologize that this recording is difficult to hear! it's a bootleg from a reading i took part in. the song is called "looks like love" by stu mcmeans. it's magical!

here are the lyrics so you can follow along with ease:

there's the sign
familiar but dusty
one look and i shiver
illusion? or is it real?

i don't think so

but there's a touch
or would i call that just a brush of his hand
or a good natured fellow feeling kind of thing
then he squeezes my shoulder
and it feels so strange

did i say strange?
well it's really warm and exciting and inviting...

no i can't let myself jump ahead
living tomorrow when tonight's just straight to bed
a simple picture of a cliche one night stand
instead i can't catch my breath
it may not look like much
but it looks like love

there's been talk before of romance
the kind that launched the ships, you know
and there's always the one who watched
as they sailed away across a gentle sea

now it's me who lists from side to side
when you look at...

no i can't let myself jump ahead
tonight it's poetry, tomorrow the rose is dead
two text messages, then it's "i'll call you when i can"
instead you take a deep breath
it may not look like much
but it looks like love

i have no time for "too good to be true"
i've fallen in that trap before
now if i don't see "too good" then i'll just see you
or something very close
i know i sound resistant
but there's safety in distance

and there's always the fear
of having my heart ripped out
thrown into a ditch
and tilled like corn stalks
over and over and over
until it's fertilizer

so am i free on friday night? no.
but that's what you asked me, right?
am i free?
i think you should know i have a hard time planning ahead, making plans.

but if you're free right now?

it may not look like much
but it looks like love

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[MissBroadwayDork]

You sound delish! What happened to his myspace?:( It seems to be gone now:(

[woodlandcreature22]

yea...he took it down. but he's still around!

[schmorgasboard]

Wow, what a beautiful song, and you performed it amazingly. I don't quite understand it though... I mean where it comes from and stuff, I dunno, maybe I'm Australian and we don't get the news as quick :P

Could you fill me in?

Well done :)

[woodlandcreature22]

it is from a new musical that is being written as we speak.

[Maddog53]

Even though the recording is not easy to hear, your talent comes through in spades. Great job!

[schmorgasboard]

koolies, it sounds great, I'll defintaley be looking into this guy :)

[DramaBaby1234]

EEEEK Ok favorite performance hands down :P Even though I couldn't see you :( ..p.s still have not figured out what was different lol :P

[jvic29]

Just not the same without your handsome face. ;)

[MiszTwilight]

It may to early for a title, but if so, do you know what it is?

If you've already said it before, I'm going to feel real stupid.

[MiszTwilight]

Second comment! I feel special.

More than beautiful, as usual.