{"id":7017,"date":"2026-06-17T12:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=7017"},"modified":"2026-06-19T12:28:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:28:56","slug":"two-kinds-of-love-songs","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/product\/two-kinds-of-love-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Kinds of Love Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"duration\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Duration:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>ca. 2\u00bd minutes<\/p>\n<p id=\"vocal-range\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Vocal Range:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>B3 \u2013 B4<\/p>\n<p>Composer Richard Wilson, who decided to pair New York City\u2019s Century Club poets and composers by drawing the names of the poets out of a hat, wrote me that there was still one name left at the bottom of the hat, and put in the subject of his e-mail \u201cPlease Don\u2019t Kill Me!\u201d (I had told him weeks earlier that I had no interest in writing a song to the words of a poet I didn\u2019t choose\u2014the poetry nor the poet.) But all of a sudden in my In box was David Lehman\u2019s \u201cIt Could Happen to You\u201d that had just appeared in the December 4, 2017\u00a0<em>The New Yorker<\/em>. I fell in love. After perusing his work I found \u201cFebruary 8\u201d from\u00a0<em>The Daily Mirror: A Journal in Poetry<\/em> (2000). A wildly lively correspondence ensued, and we finally met for the first time at the Century on February 8, 2018. This song is dedicated to Russell Merritt, whose birthday just happens to be . . . February 8.<\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_7-divioverlays_987509780  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Text<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_8-divioverlays_987509780  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p>There are two kinds<br \/>\nof love songs:<br \/>\n\u201cYou\u2019re marvelous\u201d<br \/>\nand \u201cI\u2019m heartbroken.\u201d<br \/>\nWe live in the era<br \/>\nof the premature memoir<br \/>\nbut I refuse to confess<br \/>\nor complain and when<br \/>\nyou call I start singing<br \/>\n\u201cToo Marvelous for Words\u201d<br \/>\ninstead of saying hello.<br \/>\nI\u2019m not out of control.<br \/>\nI just flirt with everybody<br \/>\nbecause I love her.<br \/>\nThe three of us<br \/>\nmade a very disarming pair.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014David Lehman, \u201cFebruary 8\u201d from <em>The Daily Mirror: A Journal in Poetry<\/em>\u00a0(2000)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[dflip id=\"7158\"][\/dflip]\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7160,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[122,42],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-7017","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-chester-biscardi","product_cat-individual-songs","first","instock","purchasable","product-type-variable"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/7017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=7017"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=7017"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=7017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}