True Fidelity from Eighties Girl by Kleopatra

(INTRO)

If I were Green Gartside of Scritti Politti, I probably would start with "girl"
But you're a boy and it doesn't matter
Like a negative space that I find myself in
(Hold it now, baby, ah ah ah)
A stitch in time
Will it save nine or will it spend away just like a nickel in a day?

If I had a time machine (you got to know it now, baby)
I'd be fast and I'd be quite forward
Encounter you on the street by random
And then lift my hat, introduce myself and say
"Hello there, I'm H. G. Not Quite Well"
"Will you give me your love? Just kiss, don't tell"
And your every word would be heard, and with true fidelity, baby-by

True fidelity, baby
I want true fidelity, baby
Count the cost, no less or loss of your life
"Got true fidelity," baby?
Give me true fidelity, baby
Reel to reel, I got the seventh seal of your heart
Stop all the posing, we've got to start

(REINTRO)

If I were the seventh wife of Martin Scorsese
Armani would rule the world
But for now I'm Kmart
You're somewhere nameless
Like, compared to Madonna I'm a virgin, no sin
(Hold it now, baby, ah ah ah)
No arguments yet because we haven't met
Like what comes after a fermata
So much waiting and left to say

If I could just skip ahead
(You've got to hear this, baby)
I could pop this apart on fortune
Encounter you on the street just for nothing
Then could I be over that fool?
But a calendar's marked we both can't see
And you are happier then, months, years from me
All the memories resist the eviction
The sheriff just shrugs at me, baby-by

True fidelity, baby
I want true fidelity, baby
Count the cost, no less or loss of your life
"Got true fidelity," baby?
Give me true fidelity, baby
Reel to reel, I got the seventh seal of your heart
I draw a circle around your heart

(MIDDLE SIXTEEN)

True fidelity, baby
I want true fidelity, baby
Count the cost, no less or loss of your life
"Got true fidelity," baby?
Give me true fidelity, baby
Reel to reel, I got the seventh seal of your heart

True fidelity, baby
I want true fidelity, baby
Count the cost, no less or loss of your life
"Got true fidelity," baby?
Give me true fidelity, baby
Reel to reel, I got the seventh seal of your heart
Stop all the posing, we've got to start

(OUTRO)

• Pop
• dance-pop
• eighties pop
• electropop
• Los Angeles