Emma & the Naysayer performs their original song, What I Want Most of All. The music is by Mary Kleshefsky, and the lyrics are a poem of the same name by Hannah Jane Loeb, in full below. Lead and guitar by Mary Kleshefsky, backup by Emma Akrawi. Check out www.emmaandthenaysayer.com and www.facebook.com/emmaandthenaysayer for more information and tour schedule.


The poem, by Hannah Loeb:

WHAT I WANT MOST OF ALL

what I want most of all
is to make this
& then not to recognize it

let me try
putting something in,
something I have known well

let me hold it
like a weapon in every
room of our old house,

it helps
not to have a continuous thought,
but instead to stare at the sofa

for a whole sixty seconds
before realizing it
is not even touching the floor

touchstonery
is the greatest threat
facing us today

when you asked me
to wash your neck,
I believed you

too bad
I will never enjoy myself
when I make love

so worried
about mistakes I have
never heard of

hear this song? like it?
buy a radio and you can have it
every time it comes on

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