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A rare love song (usually I have far weirder things on my mind). This has an almost orchestral feel, complete with strings and tympani. This is one of my favorites off this album...I really like the feel and Phil Spector-like wall of sound of it all.

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SECRET SERENADE

(Be) still my beating heart. I know I’m not what you intended,
and I hope you’re not offended by my attentions and my intentions.

For try as I may , I can’t forget you.
And try as I may, I still let you in here

(c) where the angels don’t dare
but the devils swear and play their secret serenade
keep me up all night and day dreaming of you.

Still my beating heart. I know there’s a great gulf between us and that sorry Cupid has never seen us
when wistfully I gaze at you and it seems to me you look that way too.

I wish I could just ignore you, but I wish I could implore you into here

(c)

You make me wish I was younger or richer (a presentable picture).
You make me wish I was somewhat less somber and less prone to ponder
a vision as lovely as you, but there’s naught for me to do but dream of you.

And try as I may I still want you in here
(and back and forth I pace)

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from Hell's Laughter and Heaven's Ache, released January 1, 2001

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John Ludi Madison, Wisconsin

John Ludi is a musician/singer-songwriter with a wide array of influences and lyrical interests who was "Indie" before the term even existed. Working outside of the music industry by choice has given Ludi the ability to release songs of a level of lyrical depth that are anathema to the minds of the "suits". Ludi lives off-grid in a yurt in the woods of WI and will "fight the power" til he dies. ... more

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