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A Love Song To Finance

by Jasmine Kennedy

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1.
Laura 05:20
I met a stranger, a stranger, in the city today And I gave her my umbrella ‘cause she had no coat on in the rain And she smiled and she said “I thought chivalry was dead”. I just smirked, passed her by, failed to catch her eye or her name But I thought about her on the bus ride home As I marveled at the raindrops caught on my eyelashes Tapped with an impatience I’d nothing to be home for A growing irritation wishing I was braver And I thought of all the times I said that I would mend find out what it was I’d lost that could make me good again And I wandered in my hopes, got lost in my regrets as I leant against the window and drew patterns in my breath But I mostly thought about her on the bus ride home As I marveled at the raindrops caught on my eyelashes Tapped with an impatience I’d nothing to be home for A growing irritation wishing I was braver
2.
I could only be everything I wanted to see In that moment in that speech As I gripped on to the podium my knuckles turning white And I saw as if I’d never been held before An unsettled score bathed in new light And all I can do is think All I can do is think about it This is tedious but we’ll let go when we must Oh and to know what it took Piece for piece the best parts of us Shrouded by lust We wait ‘cause we trust Lay awake ‘cause we our breath is bated ‘cause we All we can do is think All we can do is think All we can do is think about it The master of twenty-six & one The master of twenty-six & one
3.
Company 04:31
Leave a trail make your mark And do nothing to extinguish an unmistakable spark And I’ll put my hand there next And I’ll wait and I’ll wait for it See I've got a weak heart and a weak mind And I left it far too late to find It wasn't quite like that You don’t want me back You just like my company You just like my company You just like You just like my company I don’t know if there’s supposed to be compromise in love But I feel like I’d be anything for anyone who wanted me to be something for them enough See I've got a weak heart and a weak mind And I left it far too late to find It wasn't quite like that You don’t want me back You just like my company You just like my company You just like You just like my company
4.
You just walked five minutes with me across campus from our shared class. And I told you about how we almost met once last semester as we ate our lunch right by one another. And I walked you right to the door of the library. And it seemed like you were waiting so I turned, opened my mouth to speak. All I could say was I’m so glad we could finally meet. What I meant was ‘I've never seen eyes such a beautiful green. And you seem like a sweetheart to me. Like you’re wise, caring, and kind to an immeasurable degree.’ At least that’s what I’d mean… but I just turned to leave. Oh I've never seen eyes such a beautiful green. And you seem like a sweetheart to me. Like you’re wise, caring, and kind to an immeasurable degree. So maybe next time I won’t leave. No, I’ll tap you on the shoulder and you’ll turn around to me. And I’ll say maybe sometime this semester we could eat our lunch together. And you will or won’t agree. But I’ll know at least. ‘Cause I've never seen eyes such a beautiful green.
5.
I’m not proud but I've got a confession Today I had dinner for breakfast for the third day in succession Now you say I’m selfish but I’m just lonely and I’m brave And I’m stupid and I’m naïve but I’m sorry either way. But I have been dying for your company And I've been wishing, I've been wishing that you’d miss me ‘Cause I miss your smile and I miss your eyes And I miss the way that you’d be happy if I didn't always get it right ‘Cause it meant it didn't matter if you did So I’m sorry look there I said it And it wasn't to make you feel better it was because I meant it And there were perhaps more perfect moments where you could see that I felt it But I’m stupid and I’m a coward and I’m lonely for a reason and I’m selfish. But I have been dying for your company And I've been wishing, I've been wishing that you’d miss me ‘Cause I miss your smile and I miss your eyes And I miss the way that you’d be happy if I didn't always get it right ‘Cause it meant it didn't matter if you did I want you I want you I want you to miss me. Yeah I want you Oh I want you I want you to miss me. It’d matter if you did It’d matter if you It’d matter if you did It’d matter if you Oh I want you Yeah I want you I want you. It’d matter if you did It’d matter if you It’d matter if you did It’d matter if you Oh I want you I want you I want you.
6.
There’s no heart on my sleeve But there’s a wallet in my front left pocket So take that from me if that’s what you need But don’t make a scene and don’t blame me When you’re at the back of the line and I’m avoiding your company I make the rules And I’m not going to Bend and break bend and break bend and break for you So don’t make a scene and don’t blame me When you’re none the wiser and I’m avoiding your company Yeah don’t make a scene and don’t blame me When your neck’s on the line and I’m avoiding your company Yeah don’t make a scene and don’t blame me When you’re none the wiser and I’m avoiding your company
7.
All It Is 02:15
You've done all you said you would and nothing’s changed Except your hands they are a little colder Clench your fingers in to your palms Oh love, oh the worst part is over Count the tiles up on the ceiling Oh no, oh it should've felt better than this Swimming slowly swimming surely through your mind As your hand balls in to a fist This is all it is this is all it is This is all it is this is all it is
8.
Script’s right and they’re reading all the things one man was feeling And there’s direction for a reasonable reaction Only a murder only a murder and now a slow pursuit He was only she was only a lover but the only one that ever left you And it’s a reasonable a reasonable reaction Just in a second I will have lost all fascination with this sense of satisfaction So hear me out Is this a reasonable a reasonable reaction beyond any and all doubt? Three cut you up on a dual carriageway just as you pull from the slip road And they want his face So wind down the window wind down the window and say Is this a reasonable a reasonable reaction? Just hear me out Is this a reasonable a reasonable reaction beyond any and all doubt? What did he say? Read it back to me They might've made mistakes And so might he Afforded correction How did he look? How did it seem? Reaction enough for you to believe beyond a reasonable a reasonable doubt? The things that you've found with this moral compass Lay ‘em down on the ground this chance only comes once
9.
Your body’s so warm but your hands they’re always cold We set light to today’s news and hold our palms up to the glow And I watch my own breath and laugh when you jump at your own shadow Wait until it’s dark enough to offer out a hand for you to hold And I can just wait until it’s over I don’t feel anything enough Nothing hurts like it should Nothing ever feels so good that I could go crazy just for wanting it Then something snaps Beneath your feet And the first person that you think to call is me You say your hands have never been as cold as they are now So I tell you to bring your lighter and meet me by the ginnel in town And I can just wait until it’s over I don’t feel anything enough Nothing hurts like it should Nothing ever feels so good Nothing ever feels so good Nothing ever feels so
10.
She plays her music too loud And leaves the TV on when she falls asleep But she’s got reasonable taste And the sound keeps me company I am in love I’m in love with the woman upstairs in the cardigan sweater Now and forever I once passed her in the hallway And saw her twice in the laundry room So I’m pretty sure that her eyes are green And that her favourite colour is blue I am in love I’m in love with the woman upstairs in the cardigan sweater Now and forever And one time I went in to town And saw some socks I thought she’d like Based on her taste in music And how she leaves her TV on at night I am in love I’m in love with the woman upstairs in the cardigan sweater Now and forever They were on the windowsill for ages While I thought of a way A reason to talk Something to say Funny or clever Polite exchange about the weather They just ended up outside her door with a note attached In the palm of my hand Now the socks are back here Back here on my windowsill And I am in love I am in love I am in love I am in love with her still I am in love I’m in love with the woman in my cardigan sweater Now and for - oh how I am in love I’m in love with the woman in my cardigan sweater Now and for - now and forever.
11.
446230 02:22
Serenades that came and stayed While dreams of counting were waylaid I’ll grow in to that and grow out my hair And come to find that no one cares I would give this all for you These words this wood this metal and glue When I started losing This was just the next best thing Felt on paper comes undone Things that I’d been counting on I would give this all for you These words this wood this metal and glue Write a note to those I owe Sleep and spend my summers alone I would give this all for you These words this wood this metal and glue I would give this all for you It’s just words and wood and metal and glue

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A collection of songs about my life and the lives of people from the internet - recorded with friends and strangers, reel to reel, in a garage in Leeds.

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released November 10, 2013

Recorded & Produced by Neil Innes at ATA Studios, Leeds.
Mixed by Lee Smith at Greenmount Studios, Leeds.
All songs written by Jasmine Kennedy.
Arranged by Jasmine Kennedy & Neil Innes.

Jasmine Kennedy - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Neil Innes - Double Bass, Vibraphone, Electric Bass
Taz Modi - Vibraphone, Hammond Organ, Piano
Joost Hendrickx - Drums, Percussion
Simon Beddoe - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Kris Wright - Percussion, Vibraphone
Simon Nixon - Horn Arrangements, Trumpet
Al McSween - Piano, Accordion
Tony Birkhill - Clarinet
Rachel Modest - Vocals
Tom I’Anson - Trombone
Ron Christlow - Trumpet
James Howarth - Piano
Fuzzy Jones - Vocals
Matt Ball - Trombone
James Hamilton - Trumpet

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Jasmine Kennedy Leeds, UK

Jasmine Kennedy is an acoustic singer-songwriter who sings from the heart; her lyrics a collection of throwaway observations and bittersweet tales which possess a remarkable power to stun an audience into silence.

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