## Love Hearts (Sugar Lips) Words and music copyright Liz Panton 2015

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Love Hearts (Sugar Lips) - about the song

Most of the songs I have written have come to me very quickly and the ideas behind them have been entirely accidental and fortuitous. “Love Hearts (Sugar Lips)” is one of those very quick songs that just seemed to write itself.

Love Hearts – Trick or Treat?

In order to have some gifts handy around Halloween and Bonfire Night, I had bought a heart-shaped tub of mini-packs of Love Hearts and kept them by the front door. There were a few packs left at the beginning of December. I opened one and the first two Love Hearts that came out said, “Spoil Me” and “Sugar Lips”. That made me smile and also made me think, “Oooo! There is a song in there!” The next pair of sweets to come out of the pack said, “Bye Bye” and “My Angel”. The next two said, “I Hope” and “Love Bug”, which I misread as “Love Bud”. The last one said, “My Boy“.

I decided that I would try to write a two-chord song using the messages on those Love Hearts. Going with what was happening by chance and because I liked it, I kept “Love Bud” rather than correcting to “Love Bug”. I did change the last one though, from “My Boy” to “My Love”. I like the ambiguity of “My Love”. Does it refer to the person who is “My Love”, who is “here to stay”? Or to feeling that is “my love”, which is “here to stay” for that someone?

In the key of . . .

As I was writing the lyrics I could hear the song playing in my head and I decided that I was hearing it in the Key of D. However, when I came to type in the Key I hit the wrong key (!) and typed in F by accident. I decided that that might be another happy accident so I left it in F.

It is almost a two-chord song, being almost entirely in F and C. I was able to resist the lure of including Bb chords but I felt that the Bridge needed a “lift”. The one line in G in the Bridge then did something unexpected and pleasing, in that it gives the impression of a key change.

I was absolutely thrilled that Jim Carey liked "Love Hearts" enough to include it in the January 2016 edition of "Jim’s Big Ukulele Songbook"! Free download at: http://ozbcoz.com/

Liz Panton aka "Ukulele Allsorts"

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