Bobb Trimble - "Selling Me Short While Stringing Me Long" - Harvest Of Dreams (1982)

Transferred from the original 1982 private press LP, which is perhaps the very last album to be released from the first psychedelic era. Containing elements of folk, psych, and precursors to the lo-fi and indie rock movements, Bobb Trimble’s two albums are heralded as undisputed classics by record collectors today.

LYRICS:
Beauty is getting closer to the one you should love today
But when I hold you in my arms
Your heart’s a million miles away

Help me to help myself, I’m falling in love with you
I love you with all of my heart
You know I loved you right from the start

Well, you’re selling me short while stringing me ‘long
Don’t soft-sell my love tonight
Don’t ever bait, then switch my heart
I don’t want to love a loss leader tonight

Help me to to help myself, help me to hold the truth
I have so many ways to love you
Won’t you let me show you a few?

But when the morning gets you down
Perhaps the light of day will bring you ‘round
Beware of the falling rocks on the bad curve tonight
When you sympathize with yourself
You’re putting my love up on the shelf
Don’t pull that "persona non grata" bullshit tonight

Well, I tried to take the solemn oath with you
But the words I could never seem to find
If you came for my love and left empty-handed
Perhaps you weren’t searching for mine

Beauty is getting closer to the one you should love today
But when I hold you in my arms
Your heart’s a million miles away

Help me to help myself, I’m madly in love with you
I love you with all of my heart
You know I loved you
Right from the start, right from the start
Right from the start, right from the start