Gasoline by Buck Meek (of Big Thief)
Sometimes you hear a song that came out approximately 12 years after the moment in time it felt like it was about. Thankfully due to the bigness of the human heart, I can still feel swells of feeling when Meek talks about saying I love you for the first time amidst a fiery courtship.
[Chorus]
Making words up while we made love
One month and she's in my blood
Ooheeah lalo, faroosee mneykro
Will it be me or will it be her
To say I love you first?
[Verse 1]
Built a fire with oak, and juniper, and cypress
Gasoline, I knew she’d like it
She drew Orion on my belly with her finger
Then I asked if I could kiss her
[Chorus]
Making words up while we made love
One month and she's in my blood
Ooheeah lalo, faroosee mneykro
Will it be me or will it be her
To say I love you first?
[Verse 2]
We lay in silence through thе morning
Until language slowly started forming
She hummеd a lullaby
I recognized from when I was a newborn
[Chorus]
Making words up while we made love
One month and she's in my blood
Ooheeah lalo, faroosee mneykro
Will it be me or will it be her
To say I love you first?
[Verse 3]
One million years, maybe I’ll be a light beam
Lonely laser in the vacuum
And maybe she's a photon too
And we'll pass through each other, tied in quantum
[Chorus]
Making words up while we made love
One month and she's in my blood
Ooheeah lalo, faroosee mneykro
Will it be me or will it be her
To say I love you first?