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Love at 50th Sight

from That Dial (EP) by Stephen Wulff

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(Always nice when your seemingly absurd lyrics find an empirical basis:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/science/for-couples-time-can-upend-the-laws-of-attraction.html?_r=0)


VERSE
The first time I saw you, I thought you were hideous
The second time I saw you, I thought it was meaningless
The third time I saw you, I thought you were gangrenous
The fourth time I saw you, I thought you were gluttonous
The fifth time I saw you, I thought you were ruinous

PRE-CHORUS
I don’t have all day to sit here and calculate
I’m not a card-carrying member of Mensa

I don’t have all night to sit here and do the math
All I know is that you add another 45
And you have….

CHORUS
Love at 50th sight
It was love at 50th sight
It was love at 50th, 50th sight
It was love at 50th sight

VERSE
The sixth time I saw you, I thought you belonged in a psych hospital
The seventh time I saw you, I thought your bad breath was transmittable
The eighth time I saw you, I thought you were no longer an imbecile
The ninth time I saw you, I thought your soul was redeemable
The tenth time I saw you, I thought your life was a reality TV show

PRE-CHORUS
I don’t have all day to sit here and calculate
I didn’t receive a Nobel Prize in mathematics

I don’t have all night to sit here and do the math
All I know is that you add another 40
And you have….

CHORUS
Love at 50th sight
It was love at 50th sight
It was love at 50th, 50th sight
It was love at 50th sight

VERSE
The eleventh time I saw you, I thought you were a notch above mediocrity
The twelfth time I saw you, I owed your dentist an apology
The thirteenth time I saw you, I learned your face is not a deformity
The fourteenth time I saw you, I couldn’t believe you had studied cosmetology
The fifteenth time I saw you, my shrink said my crush on you is a pathology

PRE-CHORUS
I don’t have all day to sit here and calculate
I am three weeks behind on my laundry

I don’t have all night to keep on counting
I am flat broke, about to be evicted
So just take me at my word that it was…

CHORUS
Love at 50th sight
It was love at 50th sight
It was love at 50th, 50th sight
It was love at 50th sight

BRIDGE
You’ll never be the next Miss America
That’s fine with me
We have role-play and fantasy

You’ll never be the next Playboy centerfold
That’s fine with me
I’m in love with your brain, not your bra size
And thus it was…

CHORUS
Love at 50th sight
It was love at 50th sight
It was love at 50th, 50th sight
It was love at 50th sight
It was love at 50th sight
It was love at 50th, 50th sight
It was love at 50th sight

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from That Dial (EP), released August 13, 2015

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Stephen Wulff Chicago, Illinois

With a background in creative writing and comedy training from The Second City, I am a singer/songwriter from Chicago who writes concept-driven pop-rock songs with quirky lyrics, blending sincerity and absurdist humor with tongue and cheek irreverence.

INFLUENCES: Magnetic Fields, Jens Lekman, Pavement, Wilco, The Smiths, The Cure, Flaming Lips, Smoking Popes, Big Star, XTC, Motown, 60s rock.
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