Jody & Sylvie, Sept 2002
Recording duration 7'45"

Author's note:
This is a work of fact.  Any resemblance of the characters within to
actual persons and events is entirely intentional.  Yes, my brother did
attack me with a tennis racquet, and turn on the clothes dryer while I
was in it, and fix a flaky dial on the TV set with a few rubber bands,
and test out his first screwdriver by removing all of the bottom hinges
on the doors (he couldn't reach the top hinges).

Yes, he met Sylvie in a San Francisco bar on Halloween; she was wearing
an angel costume.  And he made his marriage proposal after a mountaintop
picnic, where getting to the spot involved a bike ride that went up, and
up, and up....  Funny, traditionally it was always the *woman* who would
set gruelling physical challenges for her suitors.  :)



::Lyrics::::::::::

Even as a child, Jody knew what he wanted
When I was born he knew just what was going on
He was two and a half, having fun running the show
And he knew what he wanted -- he wanted me gone

So I survived a couple of tennis racquet attacks
A couple of spins in the dryer and no harm done
Okay, maybe I (probably) shouldn't have been hiding in the dryer
But I wasn't the one who came along and thought that turning it on might be fun


  And somewhere along the way, on Halloween in San Francisco
  In the darkness of a bar, he caught her eye and then he saw her there
  And something he couldn't explain shorted out the engineering brain
  Somehow in the darkness he could see sunlight in her hair
    He could see sunlight in her hair

  He'd found his angel
  In the form of a woman
  Dressed as an angel


Things got better; Jody realized I didn't always want the spotlight
He could do all the talking, just as he had before
I'd be just reading a book or watching as he fixed our TV with rubber bands
Or took just the bottom hinge off every single door

Jody never slowed down as we grew up
He's still racing, tasting the world and finding it sweet
A new person, a new technology is just a puzzle to be understood
To see if it's just special effects or something he can keep


  And somewhere along the way, on Halloween in San Francisco
  In the darkness of a bar, she caught his eye and then she saw him there
  And something he couldn't explain shorted out the engineering brain
  Somehow in the darkness he could see sunlight in her hair
    He could see sunlight in her hair

  Il à trouvé son ange
  En forme de femme
  Déguisé en ange


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Countless lovers have said it -- for you I'd climb any mountain
How many say come on and share the finer air
Come and climb this mountain with me - I've got a question that I'm just dying to ask you
But it can wait until we're there


  And somewhere along the way, on Halloween in San Francisco
  In the darkness of a bar, he caught her eye and then he saw her there
  And something he couldn't explain shorted out the engineering brain
  Somehow in the darkness he could see sunlight in her hair
    He could see sunlight in her hair, from the fire in her eyes

  He'd found his angel
  In the form of a woman
  Dressed as an angel, angel...