My “Love Song” To My Wife, Lynne

Early in our relationship, I decided that I would profess my love to Lynne Nugent, who I had been dating for a few months by the time her birthday rolled around in 2003. For that special day, I decided to commission a song from a musician-businessman in Florida who, for $100, turns lyrics into an actual song. I titled it “Oh, Lynne.”

I had a band, Remedial Action Plan, rerecord the demo and shoot a music video of “Oh, Lynne.”

I also used the wedding video of Lynne and myself getting married at the Graceland Wedding Chapel to create an alternate video using the original demo audio.

Here are the lyrics (I asked musician-businessman to follow my lyrics exactly, and to my surprise, he did!):

Oh Lynne…, by Kembrew McLeod

Oh Lynne, you are my baby
And I don’t mean maybe.
When I look into your eyes
You full my heart with sighs
For words can’t describe that emotion
When I drink from you love potion

Chorus:
Oh Lynne Nugent, you are so great
Though I know that the word “great”
Trivializes and doesn’t do justice to
The awesomeness that is you!

You do something I can’t explain.
Hold me closer and I feel no pain.
You healed my heart like a surgeon
And now I feel like a virgin.
Touched for the very first time
By you–my sweet child ‘o mine.

Chorus:
Oh Lynne Nugent, you are so great
Though I know that the word “great”
Trivializes and doesn’t do justice to
The awesomeness that is you!

Islands in the stream is what we are
Stay with me, baby, and I’ll take you far.
Like Bon Jovi, I’ll be there for you
Words can’t say what love can do.
You rock my soul and light up my life
You took away all my strife.

Bridge:
I can’t find a word that rhymes with your last name
And to me that is a goddamn shame.
I must admit that it makes me feel ignorant [pronounce it like “ant”],
Like an uncreative and inarticulate sycophant
Because even that jerk Sting could find the only word that rhymes with tragic
When he wrote Every Little Thing She Does is Magic
… and it is a tragedy, baby!

Chorus:
Oh Lynne Nugent, you are so great
Though I know that the word “great”
Trivializes and doesn’t do justice to
The awesomeness that is you!