The Wisdom of Kisses

from Not At One by Eric Anders

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The Wisdom of Kisses
(©2002 Anders/O'Bitz)

Kisses are a better fate
Than wisdom will ever be
I was left to wonder
‘Til e. e. spoke to me

He says that "feeling is first"
And suggests I be a fool
While spring is in the world

If I could know
That his wisdom is for me
He swears by all the flowers
And says …

The best gestures of my brain
Could never really help me
To learn to wholly kiss you
But don't cry for me

Cause I'll feel all this wisdom
Of his loving poetry
Before the end of my summer

If I could know
That his wisdom is for me
I'd swear by all the flowers
And say don't cry for me
Don't cry for me, don't cry for me
Don't cry for me

Do your eyelids flutter for me
As you lean back in my arms
Please laugh and don't cry
I will learn to heed my song
I will learn to heed my song

If I could know
That his wisdom is for me
I'd swear by all the flowers and say
Don't cry

If I could know
That his wisdom is for me
I'd swear by all the flowers and say
Don't cry ... Don't cry for me.
I said don't cry

credits

from Not At One, released September 13, 2003
Written by Eric Anders and Mark O'Bitz.
Tambourine: Benedikt Bohm
Bells, Baskets, and Toms: Luis Conte
Upright Bass: Warren Kaye
Acoustic Guitars: Randy Ray Mitchell
Acoustic and Electric Guitars: Marcus Watkins
Background Vocals: Benedikt Bohm, Silvia Ryder, Sue Willett

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Eric Anders California

Californian singer-songwriter, Eric Anders, released his anti-Trump album, Eleven Nine, in the spring of 2017. The album was produced and mixed by Matthew Emerson Brown.

See Eric's latest release, released as a duo with Mark O'Bitz in June, 2018: Of All These Things. Eric and Mark are working on their second duo release, Ghosts To Ancestors, which should be out early 2019. ... more

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