Love Is In The Air Tonight

from Desolation Sound by Luke Maynard

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6. Love Is In The Air Tonight

Well, the servers’ skirts are shorter here
Than the sets between the breaks
As the TV poker dealer
Flips the flops and ups the stakes;
The old men clutch their tickets
While the young ones clutch their beers,
And they share a glance in passing
Thrown across the sea of years.

And Levon’s in his city shirt—
He’s slithering up the bar—
All the girls who know are scattering
Like a flock before a car.
He rolls them in his snake eyes
And he says he “likes their style”
While he saws through their resolve
With his prepared piano smile.

And the jukebox sings again,
And the carpet stains
are Arthur Murray footsteps
And the dance begins again…

Love is in the air tonight,
In the air tonight
You can smell its desperate trail, oh,
Restless beings searching for delight,
Love is in the air tonight, so try not to inhale.

The boys who work construction
In their checquered flannel shirts
Draw a dotted line of double shots
And down ’em till it hurts,
While the college grad behind the bar
Came home to spin the wheel;
Now he spends his evenings pouring drinks,
His weekdays pouring steel.

There’s Hettie from the Market in her brand new coat of face,
With her lips of Lexus burgundy and slips of Texas lace,
She’s eyein’ that bartender; and he knows he’ll never see
Another champion champagne Havisham half so ravishing as she.

And the jukebox sings again, &c.

I remember you from Saturday when I was playing late,
And I do believe you’re chasing me…
Or am I chasing you now? So hard to keep it straight…
Would you like to have a drink with me?
I don’t know who you are tonight
Behind your press-on smile;
We’re just dying embers in the dark
But that should last us for a while.

And the jukebox sings again, &c.

Restless beings searching for the light,
Love is in the air tonight—so try not to inhale.

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from Desolation Sound, released June 30, 2018
All vocals & instruments by Luke Maynard
Written by Luke Maynard

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Luke Maynard Toronto, Ontario

Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, old-school Canadian acoustic troubaour, and all-purpose sonic roustabout.

Loitering around the upper frets since 1996.

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