Lick the Sunshine

from True Lovers of Adventure by Mary Lee Kortes

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Co-written with David Buskin. This phrase occurred to me, which sounds like sex and/or LSD. So, it needed to be written.

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LICK THE SUNSHINE (M. Kortes/D. Buskin (Magda Lane Music/ASCAP Poso Music / ASCAP)

Prisoners of circumstance
Locked in this time and place
Trading on our innocence
These chains fall off like lace
Just beneath the surface
We’ve known it all along
No matter what the consequence
Before the light is gone

Lick the sunshine off the leaves
Lick the sunshine off the leaves
We’ve got magic up our sleeves
And only us to please
Lick the sunshine off the leaves

I feel your breath upon me
No finer wind than that
Your fingers tap a rhythm
Like the footfalls of a cat
True lovers of adventure
Dancing down the road
Drinking in the atmosphere
Collecting what we’re owed

Lick the sunshine off the leaves
Lick the sunshine off the leaves
We’ve got magic up our sleeves
And only us to please
Lick the sunshine off the leaves

I’m waiting on the lawn
In shades of green and gold
So many moments passing
So few you want to hold

Lick the sunshine off the leaves
Lick the sunshine off the leaves
We’ve got magic up our sleeves
And only us to please
Lick the sunshine off the leaves

Lick the sunshine off the leaves
Lick the sunshine off the leaves
We’ve got magic up our sleeves
The world is at our knees
Lick the sunshine off the leaves

credits

from True Lovers of Adventure, released April 23, 1999
Produced by Eric "Roscoe" Ambel

Mary Lee Kortes: lead vocals
Eric Ambel: electric echo guitar
Stephen Butler: electric guitar,
Andy York: acoustic guitar
Joe Chiofalo: accordion & church organ
Brad Albetta: bass
Graham Hawthorne: drums

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Mary Lee Kortes New York, New York

"Songs so meticulously crafted they sound completely natural". Jon Pareles, The New York Times
“Mary Lee Kortes's voice—the high mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde." David Fricke, Rolling Stone
"Mary Lee in concert... a feast for lovers of great songwriting that thrives in live performance for its wit, insight and glowing humanity." Billboard
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