[filk] Provisional lover
Posted: Sat May 11, 2019 1:06 am
I used this for the lyrics text, and this to try to get a feel for the rhythm. (Mostly iambic tetrameter I guess? ) In this style I would expect the word to be pronounced roughly "pruhVIZH'nal", so pretty much 2 syllables, and not the four you'd get if you're David Attenborough or something. (Possibly less excusable: in the second 2 lines of the chorus, I fill in a lot of the pauses the original has; and the "double-time" the original has in the last line of the last verse -- "I guess that two can play the game" into two beats -- I use in a few of the previous verses as well.)
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I sit inside an empty room
Just wait and hope you'll be back soon
Then I'll become your provisional lover
I get the door, she's brought you food
You yell at me, which might be rude
If I weren't just a provisional lover
What they made me for is all I'll ever be
(So His voice inside my head keeps telling me)
I am nothing but a plaything for some boy
Who'll get bored with me like any other toy
I see her calling on the phone
She wants to steal what I don't own
Your heart's not bound to a provisional lover
I'll comfort you, it's what I'm for
But you just push me to the floor
No need to treat me kind, your provisional lover
What they made me for is all I'll ever be
(So His voice inside my head keeps telling me)
I am nothing but a plaything for some boy
Who'll get bored with me like any other toy
What they made me for is all I'll ever be
(So His voice inside my head keeps telling me)
I am nothing but a plaything for some boy
Who'll get bored with me like any other toy
What they made me for is all I'll ever be
(So His voice inside my head keeps telling me)
I am nothing but a plaything for some boy
Who'll get bored with me like any other toy
I ease my head up through the door
She holds you close, I leave once more
At daybreak will I be your provisional lover
My heart has states that are discrete
I am all yours or must retreat
Nothing ever in between for provisional lovers
That's just me -- provisional lover
Always be -- provisional lover
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I sit inside an empty room
Just wait and hope you'll be back soon
Then I'll become your provisional lover
I get the door, she's brought you food
You yell at me, which might be rude
If I weren't just a provisional lover
What they made me for is all I'll ever be
(So His voice inside my head keeps telling me)
I am nothing but a plaything for some boy
Who'll get bored with me like any other toy
I see her calling on the phone
She wants to steal what I don't own
Your heart's not bound to a provisional lover
I'll comfort you, it's what I'm for
But you just push me to the floor
No need to treat me kind, your provisional lover
What they made me for is all I'll ever be
(So His voice inside my head keeps telling me)
I am nothing but a plaything for some boy
Who'll get bored with me like any other toy
What they made me for is all I'll ever be
(So His voice inside my head keeps telling me)
I am nothing but a plaything for some boy
Who'll get bored with me like any other toy
What they made me for is all I'll ever be
(So His voice inside my head keeps telling me)
I am nothing but a plaything for some boy
Who'll get bored with me like any other toy
I ease my head up through the door
She holds you close, I leave once more
At daybreak will I be your provisional lover
My heart has states that are discrete
I am all yours or must retreat
Nothing ever in between for provisional lovers
That's just me -- provisional lover
Always be -- provisional lover