Desire

from The Last Man by Oliver Franklin

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Desire has come to find me in my quarters
Asks me why we don’t speak no more
And what I’m really here to prove
She smiles at me, I’m smiling too
She lights a cigarette and shuts the door

Desire wakes me long before the coffee,
Lulls me long before the dark red wine
She can’t keep her slender fingers off me
Her eyes insist we can take our time

Oh, the myriad of ways in which I want you
On my arm and on this silver moonlit street
In this song and in my head,
In this photo, dressed in red
In this bed and sighing with me sweet

Desire, be my window onto silence
Drape like silk across my fragile frame
Be the burning presence of her absence
Scour me with my need,
Strip me of my name

Oh, the myriad of ways in which I want you
On my arm and on this silver, moonlit street
In this song and in my head,
In this photo, dressed in red
In this bed and sighing to me sweet

Desire, you can burn my vain resistance
Light a fiery beacon spelling “more, more, more!”
Hold me to the coals of your insistence
This honey is too thick and sweet to pour

Oh, the myriad of ways in which I want you
On my arm, and on this silver, moonlit street
In this song and in my head,
In this photo, dressed in red...

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from The Last Man, released July 1, 2015

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Oliver Franklin Boulder, Colorado

Oliver Franklin is a songwriter, composer and performer from the Pacific Northwest who now lives in Colorado. His raw but literate songwriting is a consistent through line as his musical explorations wind through ambitious electronic settings, gritty folk noir and lush psychedelia. ... more

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