love is overtaking me

crush #2 introduced me to arthur russell’s album love is overtaking me, he played “i couldn’t say it to your face” when we drove from austin to marfa, and i made him repeat it 5 times. it’s terrible and crushing. if i’m in a vulnerable place, it makes me wet-eyed. i started listening to the other songs, and so far, they are all equally wet-eye making. to wit, the lyrics to “your motion says”:

Eyes, they are just glances, a mouth,
it is just kisses, a hand, it’s just a handshake, and I am just
another guy.