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Original music inspired by Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights
Original music inspired by Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle
presents
Original Music Inspired by
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights
September 27, 2025
at Hugo House
Hosted by Wes Weddell
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Featuring Musical Performances from
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Where’s Beth^
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Mark Ippolito & J Oso Boogie*^
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Peter Donovan
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Amber Flame
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Karen Laura Peters
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PERFORMER-PROVIDED LYRICS
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Comparison
The fawn in the meadow looks like a dog
And I’m cherishing
Your company
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It’s paradise
This place we found to spend the night
Pitched a tent when the smoke rolled in
Made love inside
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Shadows
Silver like an eclipse
But it’s no eclipse, the forest is burning
And where we were before, there’s no returning
No returning
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There’s a hole in our coffee table
Shaped like a human heart
And you’re waking up in stages
This one’s my favorite part
Staring out the window
Spilling coffee in your lap
I know I am lucky to be with you
When you do things like that
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Picked up my phone
The light of advertisement shone
On my face
Quickly to give way
To comparison
Sucking the praise out of my lips
Human joy to my right and to my left
Jealousy is theft
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Blow through the haze
Baby, hold my gaze
And free me
From comparison
Hovering over the night sky
Gemstones in your eyes
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Comparison
The fawn in the meadow looks like a dog
And I’m cherishing
Mark Ippolito & J Oso Boogie
“The Sunny Side”
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(Verse 1)
Day after day, I
Learn to chase more shine
Now I can say that
everything’s alright
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Look how far I’ve come
Night after night run
Where I get light from
Somehow I write some
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Before my times done
I’ll just admire one
Hell of a ride on
The sunny side (refrain)
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(Verse 2)
Sit back relax go on a ride with me
Just scrap the map, follow the light in me
So fast we wrote pass the time limit
If a tire get flat find delight in it
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Then consider the fact that it was all over
I admit I in fact thought it was all over
Til a minute exact I let it mull over
Ain’t no pushing me back though I was pulled over
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Look close enough it’s just fine
Who knows it might be a sign
Where we going is up to sunrise
Don’t stop til you get enough shine
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Tighten all your light bulbs by nightfall
Despite odds that might call for lights off
I’m quite sure of a life more delightful
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The sunny side (refrain)
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CHORUS:
No time for wasting
Now we’re chasing the light
What’s done is done
Now we fight for our lives
Walk through the streets
We’ll be chasing the light
We won’t hide in the shadows
We won’t walk in the shadows
On the sunny side
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Verse 3:
If we ever need to run and hide
I can see us on the sunny side
There we’ll get to touch the light
Where the butterflies flutter by
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No shade you throw will ever come close
To any darkness I’ve been through
And if I’m running low on glow
I’ll get some more from who I run into
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Most people don’t think I notice
They lookin at me like I’m crazy
How I wake up and smell the roses
In a field of woopsie daisies
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We maybe gone away from home
But .. where we going will make it known
The.. chase is on when I take you on
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The sunny side (refrain)
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CHORUS
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REFRAIN
Chasing delight (RAP response)
On the sunny side
Chasing delight (RAP response)
On the sunny side
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