Topical Guide 542
Mark Dorset
Love: Desperate Measures in the Pursuit of: Pleading
For the Reservations Recommended Soundtrack Album
Reservations Recommended, Chapter 6:
WET, SLOPPY SNOW is falling, and Matthew regrets having left his umbrella at home. Stepping out onto the sidewalk, walking toward the corner, he can’t help hoping that it might be possible to reverse what has happened. Now, how could he do that? He might say, as he used to say so often, “I’m sorry,” or he might claim that he was only kidding, or —
I could fall apart. Throw myself at her. Tell her I’ve been behaving so miserably because I’ve been trying to save face. Tell her I was trying to hide my feelings because I want her back so much. “I know it’s impossible, Liz, but still, I — ”
“Oh, Matthew.”
I could drop to my knees. Put my head between her legs. She’d smooth my hair. Grab her bottom. Nose between her thighs. It might work.
Lee Andrews and Roy Calhoun, “Long Lonely Nights”:
Long, long and lonely nights
I cry my eyes out over you
Wond’ring if I did right
And why you left me with a broken heart
Oh, long, long and lonely nights
Oh, how I miss you, my dear
Please, please, come back to me
How I wish you were here
As I go along my lonely way I visualize your face
When I pass through my doorway
What’s left for me to face?
Oh, long, long and lonely nights
I guess you’re never coming home
Long, long and lonely nights
Ever since you’ve been gone
As I go along my lonely way I visualize your face
When I pass through my doorway
What’s left for me to face?
Oh, oh, oh, long, long and lonely nights
I guess you’re never coming home
Long, long and lonely nights
Ever since you’ve been gone
Please, please, come back to me
You’ve been gone too long
[NOTE: “Originally written by Lee Andrews and fellow band member Roy Calhoun, the credits were partly given away to local Philadelphia DJs Jocko, Hy Lit, and Larry Brown to promote the song,” according to SecondHandSongs. MD]
See also:
Love, the Things we Do for: TG 77; TG 90; Love: Its Nature TG 158; Love: Varieties of TG 158
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