ROBERT MAGGIO: Where Love Is Love (EP)
ROBERT MAGGIO
WHERE LOVE IS LOVE
- Where Love Is Love
- Model Ship
- Murky Monkey
- Why Did You Say Goodbye?
released September 29, 2023
All songs and lyrics by Robert Maggio (ASCAP)
Robert “Rob” Maggio: vocals, synth and drum programming (all tracks) piano 2
Alfred James Goodrich: backing vocals 1,4 cello 2 electric guitar 4
Dave Bachman: additional vocals 3
Tracks 1,2,4 recorded and mixed by Alfred James Goodrich at Silvertone Studios in Ardmore, PA; produced by Alfred James Goodrich and Robert Maggio
Track 3 recorded and mixed by Devin Greenwood at The Honey Jar in Brooklyn, NY; produced by Devin Greenwood and Robert Maggio
Mastered by Reuben Cohen at Lursson Mastering Los Angeles, CA
- • • •
- Where Love Is Love
Back in school
You followed rules
Played it cool
Mocked the fools
Checked the boxes, aced the test
Back in school
Tongues were loose
Kids were cruel
No excuse
Then you realized you were different from the rest
So you learned to hide your feelings, hide you pain
Didn’t wanna hear them calling you names
You learned how to live in darkness, live in shame
Always praying for help but it never came
You had to leave where love’s not love
You couldn’t breathe where love’s not love
You’re only free where love is love
Where love is love
Leaving home
On you own
Barely grown
Free to roam
Empty boxes at your new address
Moving in
Looking thin
In a spin
Pills and gin
Then you saw you unpacked all your distress
So you lived in darkness, live in shame
Always praying for help but it never came
You had to leave where love’s not love
You couldn’t breathe where love’s not love
You’re only free where love is love
Where love is love
Find your friends
Find your pack
Find your family
Never go back
Find your soulmate
Find your heart
Make a family
A brand new start
You had to leave where love’s not love
You couldn’t breathe where love’s not love
You’re only free where love is love
Where love is love
- • • •
- Model Ship
The model ship sits on the wooden stand
Constructed by the father’s steady hand
On the shelf
Gathering dust
Sailing nowhere
And when the model ship was broken
The father would fix it
He would always start over
He would always build again
The model son sits at his writing desk
Posing questions he could never ask
Looking up
At the ship
Sailing nowhere
And if the model son was broken
The father couldn’t fix him
No, he could never start over
He could never build again
The model father has fallen to the floor
Facing down, wanting more
Reaching out
Looking lost
Letting go
And if the model ship was real
Would we have sailed around the world,
Having real conversations,
A real father and a real son?
- • • •
- Murky Monkey
That’s me in the dark cage
with my murky monkey
and that’s me on the crazy carousel
goin’ around and around and around and around
That’s me in the endless aviary
riding my floating tiger
clutching my box of my wet popcorn
think I’m gonna drown
Silent children
holding breathless balloons
Silent children
holding breathless balloons
On this cold afternoon
Open up this dark cage
tie up this murky monkey
take me off the crazy carousel
goin’ around and around and around and around
Free me from this endless aviary
Tie down my floating tiger
Someone eat this wet popcorn
cuz I’m gonna drown (gonna drown)
I’m with the silent children
sucking breathless balloons
I’m with the silent children
sucking breathless balloons
On this dark afternoon
Here comes the terrifying clown
In his vibrant hot dog mobile
Asleep at the wheel again
Dreaming of a nervous mechanical breakdown
When will he save me from the
Silent children
eating breathless balloons
Please save me from the
Silent children
eating breathless balloons
Can’t someone save me from the
Silent children
and their breathless balloons
On this black afternoon
- • • •
- Why Did You Say Goodbye?
Why did you say goodbye?
Why did you say goodbye
before you ever even met me?
Why did you say goodbye?
Why did you say goodbye
before you ever even met me?
What color are my eyes?
What color is my hair?
What color are my eyes?
What color is my hair?
Are they just like yours?
What color is your heart?
And in my dream I found you
And in my dream I didn’t make a sound
I stood just out of sight
Just waiting and watching
Wanted to call your name
Wanted to see you turn and look at me
Wanted to see you see you see me
Did you know I found you?
Bet you didn’t know I found you.
