"The Little Red Haired Girl" genre: Poetry
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	An improvised piano track accompanies this sad poem. This track was featured on WRVG Georgetown's SoUP radio show.
	CD: A Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes   Label: TWHI Credits: Words and Music by Seth Flynn Barkan
	Story Behind the Song The Little Red Haired Girl was the ever-ellusive lost love of Charlie Brown in the old cartoon, and I was always in love with her. Charlie Brown was always too shy to talk to her, to make the effort required to get to know her, even as his desire to overcome his shyness increased. I sympathised with that deeply as a child, and, one drunken night when I had the house to myself, remembered what a powerful impression it had made on me. I had been going through kind of a spotty place in my understanding of my career and had been trying to explain to myself what it is that I do and why I do it and why its worth it, when, suddenly, Charlie Brown came on at three in the morning and it all made sense to me again. Lyrics THE LITTLE RED-HAIRED GIRL: I write for The Little Red-Haired Girl. Always out of reach, Always a bitter sweet beginning Frozen in clutched hands And silent tears The moment that screams no And aches in horrible waves Of tremulous regret, pulsing and Awash with churning hope And jaw-slackening beauty, as a song Rises in final triumph, Swelling in spangled strings Insistent, true, and hopeless With a wasteland surrounding it As it becomes Finally arriving, delivered from despair Set free from the tyranny of hopelessness To the first new moment, Of the next great expectation And the ever ending moment of penultimate loss; I write for The Little Red-Haired Girl Because she is the truest thing to me. copyright 2002 by Seth Barkan

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