Love's Little Pleasures

Song Cycle by Stanley Grill (b. 1953)

1. Short poem
 (Sung text)

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You slapped my face
But oh so gently
I smiled at the caress.

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2. This is just to say
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I have eaten
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3. Conviction (IV)
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I like to get off with people,
I like to lie in their arms,
I like to be held and tightly kissed,
Safe from all alarms.

I like to laugh and be happy
With a beautiful beautiful kiss,
I tell you, in all the world
There is no bliss like this.

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Confirmed with The Collected Poems of Stevie Smith Edited by James MacGibbon Penguin Books 1985 page 179

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4. If you don't like my apples
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If you don't like my apples don't shake my tree.
Don't you shake my tree.
I'm not after your boyfriend,
He's after me.

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5. The Look
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Strephon kissed me in the spring,
  Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
  And never kissed at all.

Strephon's kiss was lost in jest,
  Robin's lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin's eyes
  Haunts me night and day.

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6. Sous entendu
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Don't think that I don't know
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