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What can you say about a tune that takes Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 with a Leonard Cohen/Tom Waits feel?
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18 Lyrics
Shall I compare you to a summer’s day?
You are more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds can shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease has all too short a date;
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed;
But your eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of the fair you own
Nor shall death brag you wander in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time you grow:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Shall I compare you to a summer’s day?
You are more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds can shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease has all too short a date;
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.