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You and Me Tonight - Single from the latest release Cautionary Tales (Feb 2023)

Dean Johanesen - Vocals, Guitar, Keys (accordion)
Rob Pastore - Upright Bass
Dan DeGregory - Drums
The Jazz Phools:
Jay Leaman - Trombone - You and Me Tonight
Nelson Dellamagriore - Clarinet - You and Me Tonight

Recorded at Zen recording with Steve Connelly
Produced by Dean Johanesen & Steve Connelly

You and Me Tonight - Tim Burton / Steamboat Willie - Corpse Bride style cartoonish Love song

This song follows it was Beauty that killed The Beast.

In my mind a love song from Alfredo to Lillian.
Alfredo wants to keep Lillian with him after she passes.

He kind of dreams of hiding her away and plans to stay with her and continue their love / relationship after her death

I often see a cartoon style video for this with a Tim Burton flare and with some inspiration of the old Steamboat Willie cartoon from 1928.

VIDEO
Steamboat Willie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgghnQF6E4

This song was written on the road home in my truck during a tour out to Texas. It is personal, in a way, to my wife and I but also fits the mold at the time for bringing the idea in line with the story of Codona and Lillian.

Lyrics

You and Me Tonight

A field of cotton and a lost highway
The train ain't coming so you might as well stay with me baby tonight
I'll bring you flowers and sing you a song
by the light of the moon you can dance along and sway with me tonight

Oh in the morning the birds wings
Will flutter along just like my heart beats
weak in the knees from a love so strong
and it seems to me
the whole world is singing our song

Watch just how those willows sway
they used to week but not today
They see you and me all right
even the old gray mare has dyed her hair
picked up her step it seems she's smiling there for you and me tonight

Oh the afternoon sunshine
longs to be near the cool of the moon at night
From the shore to the sea
there's desire and longing
if we're reaching to be
what could possibly be wrong

Solo

A field of cotton and a lost highway
The train ain't coming so you might as well stay
with me baby tonight
I'll bring you flowers and sing you a song
by the light of the moon you can dance along
and sway with me tonight

Oh in the morning the birds wings
Will flutter along just like my heart beats
weak in the knees from a love so strong
and it seems to me
the whole world is singing our song

Ba ba ba ba ba da da
Ba ba ba ba da da da

You and me tonight

Ba ba ba ba ba da da
Ba ba ba ba da da da

You
and me
Tonight...alright!