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Sunpowder |
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Danger
in love Love When
you find love Then
you begin To
live again There’s
a cry of incantation Drowned
as traffic Glissandos
stream There’s
a laugh Of
invitation Sounds
like the prelude to a dream Why
should we still believe in love? In
love You
know the way Tonight There’s
a sense of expectation You
wear a style Of
simple grace I
heard you pray that there’s still time I
had to pray that there’s still time Why
should we still believe in love? Love Are
you crazy love? Love When
you find love Then
you begin To
live again Tonight
We
have nothing left to prove Tonight Somehow
We
felt just too hazy Can’t
remember Just
how young love felt And
even though We’re
tired we can’t surrender Can’t
surrender But
feel inspired To
feel the fever To
field love To
feel it all In
all its faded splendour In
all its raging glory To
know that once again We
will surrender To
love
In
Kelvingrove I
will remember The
bright-eyed Venus From
the Low Countries I
see her smile Yet
I’m reconciled To
a great love gone wrong I
just can’t recall At
all where love came from At
all where she came from But
maybe if I tried Surely
If I try Surely
if I try… If
Paris could choose Could
choose again He’d
choose the Thurmanesque He
would call her name Touch
the softness of her wrists Kiss
the fullness of her lips Kiss
her Florentine breasts By
Kelvingrove I
just surrender For
the Venus of Leiden Is
just so out of reach But
what a heady heady fragrance Such
a beautiful poison That
we call love Last
night I
heard myself sing “nothing
else exists” “nothing
else is real” Can
I tell you something Nothing
left to trust And
everything is love When
everything is lost When
you sold your trust when
it’s way past midnight In
cinemas Coffee
houses Golden
buildings On
empty streets The
Thurmanesque The
Florentine Sunpowder
in the Glasgow sleet
Believe
it or not there’s an angel on Ruskin I
saw her up there with my own green eyes She
danced along among the chimneys Her
golden wings caught the evening sun Hardly
knew if I was still breathing As
I lost my way on the eastern stairs She
trashed my car she trashed my paintings As
ribbons flew from her midnight hair I
was always in love’s power Always
in love’s power down
on my knees All
was lost and All
was broken Brought
to heel Like
an anxious guest On
the eastern stairs I
stole some token I
chased a kiss On
her golden crest I
was always in love’s power Yes
always in love’s power Down
on my knees You
would fall Should
you look into those eyes Believe
it or not there’s an angel on Ruskin I
hear her laugh and I hear her sing There’s
evil abroad there’s a stranger on Ruskin And
memory lies like a girl on the wing
I
love the sweetest stranger Willowy
and blonde I
find her as Fortune
comes to claim her And
she’s gone I
hear her as she calls I
love her as I fall I
love her as these Maddening
sirens call With
a madness Bold
as love I
love her as she calls I
love her and that ain’t all I
love her as these Maddening
sirens call A
madness bold as love If
I Could
just be The
One
She
gave me a kiss She
gave me the sweetest kiss In
the village of Weem She
moved thru’ the brightest dream And
somehow life means nothing to me It’s
as though I don’t exist Like
I’m lost in the Scottish mountains Alone
in the Scottish mist I
followed my star I
followed my brightest star Yes
I followed my star I
followed my guiding star She
was my muse She
was my Weem Rock muse She
was my muse Yes
she was my Weem Rock muse And
somehow life means nothing to me It’s
as though I don’t exist Like
I’m lost in the Scottish mountains Alone
in the Scottish mist She
was my love She
was my only love She
was my muse She
was my Weem Rock muse
Faithless Will
you be my girl Faithless Will
you rule my world Unchained Unchained Nameless Why
do I call your name Shameless Why
do you hide your shame Your
shame Your
shame Faithless Will
you be my girl Faithless Will
you rule my world Unchained Unchained
Will
you cry yourself To
sleep for a night Yes
I think you Probably
will No
reason No
quarter No
rescue in sight Should
I reach for The
poisonous quill I
just can’t believe anymore She’s
gone forever And
is new love A
vanishing dream? Will
I walk the streets In
vain every night Yes
I think I probably will No
reason No
quarter No
rescue in sight I
won’t reach for The
poisonous quill And
I just can’t believe anymore Way
back Way
back home Sunday
morning Sat
in the window Was
a brown-eyed Scottish girl With
a name that rhymed with dusk Then
you missed spring and blossom She
made you feel All
the beauty All
the sadness Of
what’s gone And
whatever you do Whatever
you say She’s
gone forever
Late
one night Cupid
revealed I
was gone for you I
was under his wheels No
porch lights But
I watch from the shore I
couldn’t take too much Not
too much anymore There’s
a girl somewhere In
Northern Spain She
fell in love with me In
my pursuit of fame All
Summer long We
danced eight reels She
went down on me In
the Elysian fields Send
me your halo Send
me your sacred grain In
the street of the willows We’ll
remember your name Remember
your smile Remember
your style Remember
your touch To
lose everything Would
be too much
Could
you love me Love
me Love
me As
I love you? Your
namesake brought Rembrandt
to his knees Likewise
love for you with me But
was it just a dream Was
it really just a dream? French
girls will ask you For
your cigarettes And
pleasure and regret I
couldn’t keep you For
too long But
I can keep you in a song Forever
young you seem Forever
in a dream If
you see Saskia Maybe
you could ask her Ask
her how she feels How
does she really feel And
I hope she finds love Finds
the perfect love
The
night is young Young
is the night The
dream is over Long
live the dream In
the street We
hear mandolins The
winding violins And
our hearts They’re
much stronger They
had been broken Now
they’ll mend Can
you hear The
beating of wings The
beating of angel’s wings They
will follow They
will follow us home I
kiss you once I
kiss you twice On
a tenement stairwell The
night is young Young
is the night The
dream is over Long
live the dream
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