All right.
This is a new one by Aulton.
We wrote this just last week on a Zoom session.
[TUNING GUITAR]
I think one of the perpetual pleasures of working, really,
of any collaboration, but of working with spellers
in particular is this mix of-- of course,
you can hear all these songs, on the one hand,
they're about things that all songs are about.
They're not that different.
It's about friendship and nature and connection
and expressing yourself.
This is a love song, the best topic for songs.
And then it's also so sweet to hear the slightly different
perspectives and different takes that these writers have
on topics that we've certainly heard many songs about before.
And this one really stood out to me.
Aulton, I think this is an amazing tune that's
really about contrasts, the ambivalence of the feeling
of love, how it's both soft and hard
and both enlivening and almost frightening.
Anyway, it's called "Love is More Than a Feeling."
["LOVE IS MORE THAN A FEELING" PLAYING]
(SINGING) Delicate notions float heavily
Feelings so intense
Love crumbles like a dry petal
It's somehow feathers and metal
It's more than a feeling
It leaves you perfectly reeling
And love is more than a weight
It makes pillows seem gigantic
Kind of suffocating
Yet it is breath
Romeo took love away by his death
And it's more than a feeling
It leaves you perfectly reeling
And love is a rose
It has roots, leaves, flowers and thorns
They pile pain in your skin
Love is pure
And it's a sin
And it's more than a feeling
It leaves you perfectly reeling
You're an image and a mirage
You play hide and seek with emotion
I pursue with devotion
And it's more than a feeling
It leaves you perfectly reeling
It's more than a feeling
It leaves you perfectly reeling
[APPLAUSE]
So true, so true, Aulton.
Thank you.