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My Sweetie Pie

from Sorrowful Mystery by RITA CASCIA

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What a marvel when they laid the electric wire
That brought your voice to the speakers on the production line
I heard you over the click-clacking of the movable type
It’s of you that I think when I’m covered in ink and dead tired

My father’s been a cannonball ever since that mean old war
My mother took to raising dogs, she don’t speak much anymore
Your faithful listener in my room, by myself, no-one understands
That if you talk like that, honey you must be a real man

You know they tease me hard out here all the time
Make cracks at my weight and speculate about the girls that I like

Those poor, poor boys:
I just find them so darn devoid
I am twenty-one, gainfully employed,
And saving all my love for my sweetheart with the golden voice

Oh my sweetie pie, my sweetie pie
Is it the colonel’s daughter’s number flashing on the radio line?
Long time caller, but you hang up on me every time
Put me up on the airwaves, I’ll convince you of my fervor tonight
Tonight

I’m driven to distraction hearing you call weather and date
And the station ID gets me so hot, well daddy, dinner can wait
It’s just about the hour for you to open up to listener requests
Let’s hear the terrible symphony that’s beating here in my chest

Those poor, poor boys:
Those cretins do naught but annoy me
Their palms all stained in key
Each with a father who’d bequeath a U.P. fief to me
But I’m calling up my sweetie

Oh my sweetie pie, my sweetie pie
Is it the colonel’s daughter’s number flashing on the radio line?
Long time caller, but you hang up on me every time
Put me up on the airwaves, I’ll convince you of my fervor tonight
Tonight
Oh I’ve been doing unspeakable things to myself in the darkness,
Dreaming about the face behind the voice behind that microphone
Do you see that red light flashing? It’s me,
Pick up the line don’t leave me be
Reach for that phone and answer me

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from Sorrowful Mystery, released October 13, 2023

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