Animal Passion - Heggie | Marie Cayeux & Feilin Liu - Leeds Lieder YAP 2021

Animal Passion
from Natural Selection (1997)
music by Jake Heggie
poem by Gini Savage
Recorded Live at the Leeds Lieder Festival
on Saturday June 19th 2021
during the Young Artists Coffee Concert 10.30am
Fierce as a bobcat's spring
With start-up speeds of sixty miles per hour
I want a lover to sweep me off my feet
And slide me into the gutter
Without the niceties of small-talk roses or champagne
I mean business
I want whiskey
I want to be swallowed whole
I want tiles to spring off the walls
When we enter hotel rooms or afternoon apartments
I won't pussy-foot around responsibility
"shoulds" and "oughts" are out for good
And I don't want to be a fat domestic cat
I want to be frantic
Yowls and growls to sound like the lion house at feeding time
I don't give a damn who hears
I don't give a damn!
No discreet eavesdroppers' coughs can stop us in our frenzy
Let the voyeurs voient
And let the great cats come