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Can't Make it With Your Brain

from SuperBlue by Kurt Elling

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lyrics

On my first take your shimmy-shake looked sexy across the room.

I could just about taste it — desire-fire — the hit of a dark perfume.

All of the shades down — the lights are low — the flow is happening.

You flashing your baby blues — just a little peek-a-boo — & I started imagining.

But then, I notice that button. It probably means nothin — just some kind of a joke.

‘Cause girl, I think that you’re crushing. No point in discussing it, ‘cause you have to be ‘woke.

But now you’ve got me wondering — & thinking all the sudden. Am I missing a trick?

Are you a brick house or a brick?


spoken: Huh. Is this, like… “dance 10 — thinks 3?”



As I shake the question — & keep the connection — you boogie across the floor

In a reckless necklace & a little black dress & possibly nothing more.

You fingers in my hair now — lingering there — knowing just what to do.

Your lips are glistening — getting me listening — and then you whisper that “Q” is true.

And that’s when you murder the moment. The rabbit hole opens on some stranger than strange.

I guess that I should have known it — Your button means you’re into that Stormy-insane stuff.

I wish you’d kept it on the physical plane …

… because I can’t make it with your brain.


spoken: The champagne in this bar is expensive. Don’t you think you should buy me another?



‘Cause that’s when you murdered the moment. The rabbit hole opened on your stranger than strange.

That button isn’t ironic. It’s Adrenochromic, and it’s some bloody insane.

And, wow! That blows up the hook up. ‘Cause I ain’t wasting time cruising in your lane.

Because now I’m only looking for grown-ups, and not some adolescent on a crazy-train.

And you can buy your own expensive champagne

… because I can’t make it with your brain.
spoken: And now, the headlines:

Bat-Boy found in cave 10 years ago says he’s not afraid of heights … Volunteers to operate
NATO space laser!

Disappeared brawny lumberjack Butch Jones released from 15 years as Bigfoot love slave.
Mourning wife says, “He’s just not the man I married!”

Vatican City miracle stunner!
Tiny ghost of Pope John Paul the II living… under current pope’s hat!

Shocking photos found in White House basement reveal: 27th U.S. president William Howard
Taft was actually … a woman!

There’s pictures and everything!

The end is near! Elvis tells mummy aliens to shut us down! We’re fired!!

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from SuperBlue, released October 8, 2021
Music: Charlie Hunter, Corey Fonville, DJ Harrison, Kurt Elling, Phil Galdston
Lyric: Kurt Elling, Phil Galdston
CHT Music (ASCAP), Corey Fonville (ASCAP), DJ Harrison (ASCAP), Kazzoom Music Inc. (ASCAP), New Prescription Music (BMI) administered by Painted Desert Music

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Renowned for his singular combination of robust swing and poetic insight, GRAMMY winner Kurt Elling has secured his place among the world’s foremost jazz vocalists. Declared “the standout male vocalist of our time” by The New York Times, Elling has garnered unprecedented accolades, including a fourteen-year run atop the DownBeat Critics Poll, as well as a dozen GRAMMY nominations ... more

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