A Thousand Words

from The Drone of Love by Kurt Chaboyer

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A Thousand Words


A thousand words,
a thousand dollars,
it ain’t worth it,
you in a picture,
in a locket,
like you’ve been framed,
like you’ve been collared,
put on a leash,
like you’ve been tamed.

A thousand words,
a distant holler,
it ain’t for me,
you in a picture,
in a wallet,
already saw it.
I don’t want you
in a portrait,
I want you free.


All you ladies, what you think of love?
You want to put it in a little tea cup.
Why you want cute when you can have handsome?
I see a photo, I see a ransom.


A bunch of words,
another phone call,
a royal highness,
a declaration,
a delegation, signaled with a bell.
Not every question
needs an answer,
not every partner
gets a dancer.

Too many words,
too many pictures,
too much to choose from,
too much filler,
too many itches,
not enough fingers,
I want a body,
I want a breather,
I want an invite,
I want to tease her.


All you ladies, what you think of love?
You think it wiggles like a flat-faced pug,
looking at photos all through the day,
making little idols to which you pray.

All you ladies, what you think of love?
You want to put it in a little tea cup.
Why you want cute when you can have handsome?
I see a photo, I see a ransom.

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from The Drone of Love, released January 22, 2017
Words and music by Kurt Chaboyer, double bass by Pierre-Alexandre Maranda. Mixed and engineered by Nataq Huault, Montreal 2016.

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Montrealer Kurt Chaboyer came from Vancouver via NYC for good times and to make music.

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