Poor Old Lu

Poor Old Lu - In Love With The Greenery lyrics

Definitely the oldest song on the album, it was originally recorded on our first album (1990), In Love With The Greenery, when we played under the name BellBangVilla. In 1989, we traveled to Germany for a mission trip with our church. On one of the areas that we drove past a few times were written the words (in spraypaint) "I Love You, All I'm Saying, Pretty Baby, La La Love You". So this song was originally called "La La Love You". We found out before our releasing album that these lyrics came from a Pixies song, which was fine with us. Unfortunately, we found out that that song was also called "La La Love You", which was not fine with us. The song name was eventually changed to just "Love You". I always hated that name. Before Mindsize was released, we changed the name of this song to "In Love With The Greenery".

Written under the guise of God speaking to one person in particular, it was most noted for its interesting imagery which changed from line to line. The notion is that God is truly pained by seeing His children suffer in wrong decisions. The chorus originally read "You took on the world, it took me by surprise...", but Aaron felt that it was a bad representation of what God knows, that is, nothing takes Him by surprise. Aaron was right. I changed the line.

You said, "I love the world"

"I love what you've done for me"

you let my grip go

And played the piano keys

Couldn't even see

Boxed in by a fantasy

Scared of real love

You're dead by your destiny

Now shuffling around

Shaking like a tambourine

Confused like the tide

By every star you've seen

You took on the world

It took you by surprise

Like the day you fell

And tears fell from my eyes

Standing so tall

You said, "Yes I'll salute you King"

Lost in a forest

In love with the greenery

Apart from the crowd

Never caught looking

around for a scene

Like loneliness you're sinking

I cried of your sin

And every other thing

that held you down

Down so far from me

Take diamonds right now

But I promise eternity

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