[pan in love]
[Time: 4'50"]
[Lyrics: Thom Woodley]
[First performed September 11, 1999 -- show #40]
[Appears as track #2 on "Mainstream Mayhem"]
[Tim: upright bass, Nevin: melodica, vocals, Jamie: percussion, vocals, Andy: accordion, vocals, Thom: guitar, vocals, (guest) John Paul Tobin: mandolin, viola]


This song juxtaposes two relationships: one mythological, and one personal.
Try to guess which is which. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Our good man Nevin dons the main vocal track here, interspersing
his world-renowned melodica skills, which really helped him pass his Bert audition.


dimming bulbs and candles cut to air
are betrayed by our luminescent affection

embers fade on this jungle floor we share
love stays, flamed by winesweet introspection

a comic scene, his goathair disarrayed
he brays proudly as he carts off his newfound love maid
but i swear, this is not just another satyr

she turns into swampreeds at his feet
but pan plays, sweetness cuts knifelike through the bog
he shapes music from her sad defeat
and pan plays

pan in love, pan in love
he'll go no more a-rovin
two a.m. and pan is in love
his poor goat heart's been cloven

moonlight falls on the peloponnesian plains
that evolve and revolve in my own fertile brain
by your eyes i know you know what i know

i don't need anything
but my forest and my music and you
and sometimes i can lay in the flower garden
and ignore the thorns and ignore my horns
and enjoy the bamboo

pan in love, pan in love
his panic pipes are muted
satyr sings his first true song
his heart's so deeply rooted
in the past it's just been wrong
romance so convoluted
pan in love, goatman in love
this time, time will not dilute it.


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