If food be the music of love, play on - play on! The thought of you makes me feel Emotions not experienced for so long now You've resurrected my idle heart I long to return the favor somehow But perfect you could never love imperfect me So it's best that you never know That as much ecstasy I feel from you makes me Wantf to massage you internally just so [CH:] I wanted to make you feel something inside So I - I brought you a sandwich I wanted to be the one to make you smile And I - I bought you a sandwich They say the way to a man's heart's Through his stomach - I hoped that was true As food's the only way I could ever Hope to get close to you All I have that you could ever want Is this sandwich If food be the music of love, play fortissimo - let it crescendo An innocent chat, you never suspected that My heart was racing as you took a bite And purred when you digested I was swallowing your delight Because something from me gave you joy If only you knew how much that meant to me I could have shouted praise to the heavens But bit my tongue and chewed my own sub silently [Chorus repeats] If food be the music of love, play legato with a formata I hoped this moment might lead to a second course But my wish came down with food poisoning As I heard you talking the other day to your boyfriend I'm now on a diet from positive thinking I should have known - oh heck, I did know I told myself over again I must be mistaken To think someone sent from the heavens like you Didn't already have someone to bring home the bacon [Chorus repeats] If food be the music of love, stop playing that blasted song

Commentary I would definately put this song in my top five of favorite things i've written. If i'm not mistaken, this was written within the last year that i was writing songs and it serves as a personal reminder of reaching places i wanted to go with my writing. It's deeply personal and emotional but it's also got a bit of a tongue-in-cheek humor among the darker aspects - and a sense of being very direct (in spite of the definate indirectness the story of the song tells) alongside poetic devises like allusions and irony. This was inspired by a true life experience. I had grown comfortable (or "accepted" perhaps since i don't know if one can ever be "comfortable) with the notion that hoping i'd ever meet someone in my life that wanted to be with me the same way i would want to be with them was a total implausibility. There was someone i was doing some volunteer work with who i thought was an absolute wonderful and amazing individual and one day he had been working on something all day and hadn't eaten yet so when i was done i made a trip to Subway and bought him back a sandwich and the whole idea of being able to satisfy a person's cravings - even if it's something as basic as hunger kind of stuck in my head...that was probably the closest i could realistically ever come to making someone feel something inside. I was using food a lot as a motif in my works at the time, almost always as a metaphor for depression and the need to make myself feel fulfilled inside so i also liked the notion of being able to write something about food (with a title as direct and simple as "The Sandwich") where the fulfillment in question came from giving it to someone else instead of myself gorging and drowning sorrows. For those that don't immediately recognize it, the recurring lyric is a play on the Shakespeare line, "If music be the food of love, play on". The first line reverses food and music then each verse opens with a variation on that twist which the music would reflect as i sang the intro.

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