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Danger In Love
04:46
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Love
When you find love
Then you begin
To live again
There’s a cry of incantation
Almost drowned
By traffic glissandos and screams
We hear a cry of invitation
Sounds like the prelude to a dream
Why should we still believe in...
Love
In love
Do you know the way?
You should know the way...
Tonight
We felt a sense of expectation
You wear your style
With simple grace
I heard you pray
That there’s still time
Why should we still believe in 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
I felt just too hazy
We can’t remember
Just how
Young love felt
Even though we’re tired
We can’t surrender
But feel inspired
To feel the fever
To feel love
To feel alive
In all its faded splendour
In all its raging glory
And know that once again
We will surrender
To love
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2. |
The Angel On Ruskin
04:52
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Believe it or not
There’s an angel on Ruskin
I saw her up there
With my own green eyes
She danced alone
Among the chimneys
As her golden wings
Caught the evening sun
I 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 her ribbons flew
From her midnight hair
I was always in love’s power
Yes always
Drawn into 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
Drawn into 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
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3. |
Delft
02:19
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I love the sweetest stranger
Willowy & blonde
I find her as
Fortune calls 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
With a madness
Bold as love
If I could just be the one
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4. |
Faithless
05:58
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Faithless
Will you be my girl?
Faithless
Will you rule my world?
Unchained
Unchained
Nameless
Why do I call your name?
Shameless
Where did you hide your shame?
Your shame
Faithless
Will you be my girl?
Shameless
Will you rule my world?
Unchained
Yes unchained
I guess unchained
Here comes redemption
It’s going to set you free
Faithless
Goodbye Faithless
Hey hey faithless
Goodbye Faithless
I used to see you
Walking down our street
Where she picked up her history books
And a little black book on Jazz
Like a secret pang of grief
She was walking down our street
With the rainbow caught in her sleeves
Caught in her sleeves
Well, I guess I’m going to have to dream
Goodbye faithless
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5. |
For Saskia
02:36
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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
Yes now 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
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6. |
Weem Rock Muse
03:50
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She gave me a kiss
She gave me the sweetest kiss
In the village of Weem
She moved through 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
Yes she was my muse
She was my Weem Rock muse
And somehow life means nothing to me
It’s as though I don’t exist
I’m lost in the Scottish mountains
Alone in the Scottish mist
She was my love
She was my only love
When she was my muse
She was my Weem Rock muse
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7. |
The Night Is Young
02:54
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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 are much stronger
They had been broken
But now they will mend
Can you hear
The beating of wings
The beating of angels’ 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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8. |
Send Me Your Halo
03:52
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Late one night
Cupid revealed
I was gone for you
I was under his wheels
No porch lights
Though I watched from the shore
I couldn’t take too much
Not too much anymore
There’s a girl somewhere
Up in northern Spain
She fell in love with me
In my pursuit of fame
Wished me luck
As my dreams fell away
She won’t miss me too much
Not too much anyway
Send me your halo
Send me your precious grain
On 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
Those were such good times...
There was a girl somewhere
Up in northern France
She fell in love with you
In the pursuit of romance
All summer long
She danced 8 reels
She waits down for you
In the Elysian Fields
Send me your halo
Send me your precious grain
In the street of the willows
We’ll remember your name
Remember your smile
Remember your style
To lose everything would be too much
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9. |
She's Gone Forever
03:30
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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 you know that I
Just can’t believe anymore
She’s gone forever Forever
She’s gone forever
And this new love
Is this new love
A vanishing dream?
Way back
Way back when
Sunday morning and
Sat in the window
Was a brown-eyed Scottish girl
With a name that rhymed with the dusk
And she whispered with the blossom outside
Made me feel such delight
Made me feel
All the beauty
All the sadness
Of what’s gone away
And whatever you say
Whatever you do
She’s gone forever
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10. |
The Dutch Venus
05:25
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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
And I just can’t recall
At all where she came from
At all where love came from
But maybe if I try
Surely if I try
If Paris could chose
Could chose again
Then he’d chose the Thurmanesque
He would call her name
Touch the softness of her wrist
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
Just 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?
There’s nothing left to trust
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
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11. |
Sunpowder
01:33
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