Love Is a Stupid Word

from Consolations and Desolations by Joe Goodkin

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Sometimes the drugs don’t do the trick
They get me by but make me sick
I sit up worrying
Waiting for the end
Who will fill my empty rooms
Who will make my garden bloom
Who will hold my hand and come to my defense

Love is a stupid word
But it’s the one I say
To chase the fear away
Love is a stupid word
But it’s the one you’ve got
To tell me you will not
Disappear

Sometimes I dream that I’m alone
And where you’ve gone no one knows
I go door to door
With menace in my eyes
Then I catch what’s on the news
There’s a car, a shirt, some shoes
I wake up and see you face
You hold me while I cry

Love is a stupid word
But it’s the one I say
To chase the fear away
Love is a stupid word
But it’s the one you’ve got
To tell me you will not
Disappear

It was only a dream…
It was only a dream
I tell myself
It was only a dream I whisper
But it doesn’t help
It was only a dream
It was only a dream I yell and yell and yell that

Love is a stupid word
But it’s the one I shout
Until my voice goes out
Love is a stupid word
But it’s the one you’ve got
To tell me you will not
Disappear

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from Consolations and Desolations, released October 27, 2023
Joe Goodkin: vocals, guitars
Ken Coomer: drums, percussion
Dave Jacques: bass

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Joe Goodkin Chicago, Illinois

Chicago-based singer/songwriter Joe Goodkin has released albums as both a solo artist and under the name Paper Arrows. He tours the country performing one-man folk opera retellings of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad.

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