S4:E15 – Only the Lover Sings: Jessie Todd, “Excavation”

Excavation by Jessie Todd | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/OTW_S4-E15-OTLS_Jessie-Todd.mp3 Jessie Todd lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and works as a labor and delivery nurse by night and an amateur essayist by day. She has an English degree from Grove City College, and worked as a middle school English teacher at Evangelical Christian Academy in Madrid, Spain for several years before getting her nursing degree. She authors a newsletter called The Melancholy Monthly, and you can find those newsletters and her other work at themelancholymonthly.wordpress.com. (Coming Soon) She enjoys spending her free time walking and running through the Cuyahoga National Park, cooking any and all things autumnal, and caring for her many house plants. <li class='et_pb_social_media_follow_network_63 et_pb_social_icon et_pb_social_network_link et-social-facebook'><a href='https://www.facebook.com/melancholymonthly' class='icon et_pb_with_border' title='Follow on Facebook' target="_blank"><span class='et_pb_social_media_follow_network_name' aria-hidden='true' >Follow<li class='et_pb_social_media_follow_network_64 et_pb_social_icon et_pb_social_network_link et-social-instagram'><a href='https://www.instagram.com/carrotsandtea/' class='icon et_pb_with_border' title='Follow on Instagram' target="_blank"><span class='et_pb_social_media_follow_network_name' aria-hidden='true' >Follow Only the Lover Sings by Matthew Clark You’ve never met a liar You’ve only met the lie that they put forth There ain’t no soul more lonely Until you tell the truth you can’t be touched And I wanna be touched, I wanna be touched CHORUS Only the lover sings Only the one who dares to look you full-on in the face Finds out the shocking good news I learned a terrible habit I speed away when the red light says to stay And when the green light’s flashing I go to sleep to keep the light at bay But I wanna wake up CHORUS BRIDGE What will you find if you look into those eyes? It’s hard to believe but maybe you’re in for a surprise I feel a new song coming Swinging like a blade that cuts through fear I don’t owe jack to confusion Now love has come and made himself so clear And I wanna trust I wanna be touched I wanna wake up I wanna trust ©2022 Matthew Clark, Path in the Pines Music, ASCAP The post S4:E15 &#8211; Only the Lover Sings: Jessie Todd, &#8220;Excavation&#8221; appeared first on Matthew Clark.