My Music: IT GOES BEYOND WORDS

The lyrics from my notebook, about 1970. This song was intended as a parody of the kind of bland, saccharine love songs that often appeared on the variety shows my parents watched, like Perry Como and Andy Williams. It was also, I think, making fun of my own inability to get anywhere with a real romance as opposed to daydreams. Here’s the song: It Goes Beyond Words.

Here I am after high school in the summer of 1969, in a photo booth in Seaside, New Jersey. I went there with a male friend, Randy, for a brief vacation after my summer job ended, and perhaps I thought I might meet a girl, but as usual that didn’t happen. I always had female friends in grade school and high school, and I could talk to them about common interests, or sometimes make them laugh with silly comments or drawings, but when it came to dating, I had a hard time even bringing it up, and if I did, I was gently deflected. I went on exactly two dates in high school, and neither went well or was repeated. The fact that I was a skinny nerd, terrible at sports, whose favorite activities were reading, drawing, writing, and walking in the woods didn’t help. Things were not any better in my first year of art school, but after that…there were developments.

It Goes Beyond Words lyrics and song are © Todd Klein, all rights reserved.

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