Favourite Book
Listen to an MP3 of "Favourite Book" on this web site
Produced from a live 2007 track recorded with "The SubTles" featuring, in addition to my Guide Vocal & Rhythm Guitar, Cliff Coates on Bass & Dirk Forsdyke on drums
New Vocals and Lead Guitar overdubbed on 14th January 2011
Lyrics
© Project Freeman Music/Halco Music (29/3/1991)
She came into the Library, looking for an open Book
The one she borrowed last time, came with a Jacket she mistook
Bridge 1:
She Read it Cover to Cover, Looking for a lover to love her, wooed by words
She skipped my Introduction, and went straight to Chapter One
and what she found there made her, Read the other Twenty One
Bridge 2:
She Read me Cover to Cover, Looking for the lover to love her
I'm glad she came back for another with better Words
Chorus:
Now I'm, On Loan, I'm her Favourite Book
She keeps, Me open, I'm her Favourite Book
I'm well, (hung!) Overdue, I'm her Favourite Book
Paragraphs mean nothing, when Words get in the way
My Sentence is completed, this Book's found a new Library
Repeat Bridge 2
Repeat Chorus
I'm still, On Loan, I'm her Favourite Book
She never, Puts me down, I'm her Favourite Book
She's never, Taking me back, I'm her Favourite Book
Oh Yeah!....
The Story of 'Favourite Book'
The SubTles (above) - Not Subtle at all!
A tongue in cheek "play on words" (which in itself is a play on words!)
You get the title and it all goes from there, we had the idea of treating one's love of books as a metaphor for a relationship, in a very arrogant, male ego "...I'm great..." sort of way
I tried to keep the guitars very early 60's sounding in true SubTles (RuTles / BeaTles) fashion, using my black Rickenbacker 330, but got a bit carried away towards the end!
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© Project Freeman Music (2008-2011)