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When You Want Someody (To Make Love To)

from PUSHBUTTON ROMANCE by Rich Arithmetic

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Power pop? Jangle pop? I've held this one in my pocket for a number of years before finally recording it.

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WHEN YOU WANT SOMEBODY (To Make Love To)
by Richard Horton © Hortones, BMI

Late-night coffee and sharing class notes
Solved global problems on the telephone
It was oh so long ago

(Optional 2nd Verse)
Surprised by grief’s inventing new rules
Cassette love letters mocked this old school fool
Turning cruelly into woe —

CHORUS:
When you want somebody to make love to – you want it to be a friend
When you need somebody to make love to —
You need it to be a friend

Fast-form forward and counting gray hairs
Still soul-locked and caught, shocked unawares
An old song told us so----

(CHORUS)

Tell it like it is —
Remember flame’s fast fire and the freeze of death, uh huh
Tell it like it is —
Faded ember’s flare, awake with merest breath, it won't take so long —

(CHORUS)

Seized and cuffed snug to your heart’s pin
Locked in place no safe word comprehends
These bonds held fast by you

(CHORUS)

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from PUSHBUTTON ROMANCE, released February 23, 2024
RICH ARITHMETIC: Guitars, Bass, Vocals, Drum Programming

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Rich Arithmetic Bellingham, Washington

Rich Arithmetic serves up power pop, psych-pop, and folk-meets-surf-and-sand harmonies that "eliminate the gaps between the ‘60s, ‘80s and the 2020's" - Steve Stav, stevestav.com

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