MUSIC
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 Heidi and Jim
 Noel Coward
 Musical Review (1991)
    About the Author
    About the Review
    Songs from a Gay Man's Heart: Act 1.
    Songs from a Gay Man's Heart: Act 2.
    Love Strikes Again
    Loving Man
    Aquarian Eccentricity
    Michael, I Loved You
    Just Wanted To Have a Drink and Go Home Early
    It Hurts Just as Much To Leave Someone as To Be Left
    The Mountain, the Sea and Me
    I Started To Think of You Again Today
    We're Going Back Home, and You're Leaving
    John Took Me Back
    You and I
    In the Shadow of a Tree
    Hot Stuff
    A Little Piece of Heaven
    Caught Him Out with the Other Guy
    Time for a Change
    Songs from a Gay Man's Heart: Act 3.
    Epilogue.
    Index to Songs
    Roles We Loved
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It Hurts Just as Much To Leave Someone as To Be Left

I was to become involved in my first love triangle, and to find out that it's no more fun to leave someone then it is to be left. Early in October Michael showed up at the door of my mobile home again. All my feelings ror him immediately came back.

I tried to explain the situation to John, but he was crushed. The next day he pulled me out of a public meeting where I taught and sobbed and begged me to take him back. I spent a grim and very late evening with him trying to gently disengage our relationship. I didn't entirely succeed.

Two songs grew from these conflicted feelings. The Mountain, the Sea and Me evokes my sense of being helpless, yet aloof before the desperate romantic pleadings of John. I Started To Think of You Again Today is a portrait of a man in the grips of returning subtle, lovely lust, mine for Michael.

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