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Chocolate (1998) |
from the Song Cycle "Seven For Luck" |
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Chocolate (1998) |
from the Song Cycle "Seven For Luck" |
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Music by John Williams
Lyrics by Rita Dove
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Chocolate (1:40) Cynthia Haymon and the Boston Pops from "Excerpts from 7 for Luck and other recordings" |
Lyrics
Chocolate
Velvet fruit, exquisite square
I hold up to sniff
between finger and thumb-
how you numb me
with your rich attentions!
If I don't eat you quickly,
you'll melt in my palm.
Pleasure seeker, if I let you,
you'd liquefy everywhere.
Knotted smoke, dark punch
of earth and night and leaf,
for a taste of you
any woman would gladly
crumble to ruin.
Enough chatter: I am ready
to fall in love!
© MH
