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Currently, my favorite song to hear when I wake up.

In an earlier Ghost, I noted that Al Green's "Love and Happiness" was my ringtone for  non-related callers bestowed with two X-chromosomes.  Currently, and for the foreseeable future, this is the ringtone which serves that purpose.  As a guy, who is single, it's nice to receive calls or text messages from the females.  Ladies, this song is currently yours.

Check the guitar.  Backed by a simple bass line, the instrument tells its own tale through two double-upstroked guitar chords followed by a snaking lead line.  It's so glimmery and shiny that I feel like putting on some aviators.  Throw in the xylophone lightly backing it; great googly-moogly, we're experiencing quite the twee-gasm.

There's a very 60's-esque quality about the recording itself; with the reverb-drenched rhythm guitar, the plain and effective bass, the xylophone and acoustic guitars hiding in the sheets, and overall dreamy soundscape harken to the hits found on local oldies stations.  There's a reason the ratings for oldies stations are consistently among the top stations in every market.  Hits!

And how about those hand claps in the outro?

There's a very earnest quality to Ramesh Srivastava's tenor.  Not as "thin and breathy" as the voice of his contemporary Ben Gibbard, Srivastava's voice comes through extraordinarily clear, and seems very original. 
The singer sounds like a man baring himself, laying it on the line for the target(s) of his affection.  I am of the opinion that this song is intended for a general target audience, that being women.  Employing "you" in the later verses would make many a listener think that this ditty is directed at a single person.

Look at the statement, "I wanna catch a love and make it stay."  The target of certain lines may be a past love which did not work out, but the overwhelming message from above is "Ladies, Ramesh is on the prowl, and he wants 'forever.'"

Give the poor man a chance, he's bursting at the seams with love to give!  I'm sure he'd sing you songs, maybe even write one about you.  Or include one of your inside jokes in the liner notes.  Or a picture of you, but just in the background.

Love,
Hoffie