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The Pursuit Of An Orchid
02:48
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Followed you one night
From the Glasgow School of Art
We took a night-train
To Paris entranced
We took a room
Off the Rue Royale
I played you some tunes
You seemed to like rather well
I needed to believe in you
I needed to believe in myself
I need to believe in love
You wore a Delphos gown
Made a sensual parade
I swam around at your feet
Like some spilt lemonade
By the window in the moonlight
I unbuttoned your dress
Drank the sweet honey of our lips
Felled by your sweet caress
Later on in the night-time
On the glistening streets
I put you in a taxi
I kissed your cheek
Someday I might forget myself
Yes someday I might forget myself
But I could never forget
The softness of your cheek
Do I believe in you?
Do I believe in myself?
I don’t know but I believe in love…
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Two Cats On The Piano
03:36
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Your cat is called Rangoon
Last night he played me a wee tune
He said he loved you more than I do
I told him that couldn’t possibly be true
My cat I call him Mac
Like me he only wants to win you back
I told him love is endless pain
But in love we have so much to gain
You know the night was falling
It was without hope now
That I tried to carry on
What is that sonic beauty?
Why it’s the 20th Century exposed
By a brass doorbell
What is that beauty?
Why she carries the summer breeze
On her sleeves!
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Memory Fever
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You knew my dreams
Knew my little wing
Knew she made me sing
Til I caught a fever
Could you make me see?
Maybe bring her back to me
Could I just see her
Hey there could you end this fever?
Maybe bring it all back
Maybe bring it all back
Had a bellyful of fever
Drifting down
Drifting down
Can you feel it?
Drifting down
Drifting down
Had a bellyful of fever
Drifting down
Still feel it
Tell me now can’t you feel it
Can you feel it?
Couldn’t be nobody
Couldn’t be nobody no more
And still feel it
With a bellyful of fever
Man to taunt you perfectly
A counterfeit
Sends you still reeling
Well that’s a doze of memory fever
Just your memory fever
Just a memory
Better bring it all back
Bonny bring it all back
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For The Delicious C
02:00
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I was thoroughly corroded with chocolate
Catching myself gazing
Longingly and adoringly at you
I didn’t feel so bad
Considering I’d renounced everything
But I felt my soul tinged
Every imaginable shade of blue
As you drew a face
On the dust on the fire-surround
Your exquisite untrammelled lashes
Fluttered upwards towards me
Your face was lit up
By the pale lemon
That was the fading sun
For a few delicious seconds
I held your gaze
Maybe I was the one?
With the essence of you
Running through my veins
Making life so rich
It made anything seem possible
Where nothing exists
Except Love
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Desire Regained
05:28
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There’s a fragrance in this room
Like something wafted up from an oleander
Scented pool
It carries the bliss of a half-remembered kiss
And a vision of wild swans and
The jazz kittens of cool
Makes me recall
Thrusting through
A darkened Dance Hall
Saying
“I want you now if you want me at all”
I’m nineteen and I’m crazy about you
Yes I’m crazy about you
Is that so strange?
Asked myself
Why my hear was beating so
Swelling and bobbing
As I mounted your stairs
You know beauty fades
Dishevelled and deranged
But the fragrance remains
I was deranged and derealised
By your dark sweet eyes
I inhale you
Hold on for you
How I longed for you
Makes me recall
Thrusting through
A darkened Dance Hall
And feel the bliss
Of a half-remembered kiss
I’m nineteen and I’m crazy about you
Yes I’m crazy about you
Is that so strange?
Crushed by the crush
Rushed by the rush
Bound and tied
By your dark sweet eyes
How I dissolved
Revolved and evolved
I was deranged and derealised
You were cute
But I was resolute
And hip!
There’s a phantom
In this room now
Somehow conjured up
From the hotel swimming pool
She carries the bliss
Of a half-remembered kiss
And a vision of wild swans
And the jazz kittens at Coole
Baby I’m nineteen…
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6. |
Get Out Of Life
03:56
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“Is not an absence for those who love
The most certain
The most effective
The deepest-rooted
The least-destructible of presences?”
I got all fuelled up
By a sense so addictive
I was entwined
I was trapped
And unwrapped
Hey I’m under you spell
You saw me fall
Before I fell
I’m under you spell
You know full well
Your freedom was calling
Your freedom was calling
Calling you not me
You saw me fall
Before I fell
I was under your spell
You know full well
What you get out of love
Yet I want you
Perfectly counterfeit
Yes I want you
Wherever you are
You were cute
But I was resolute
And hip
Crushed by the crush
Rushed by the rush
Bound and tied
By your pale blue eyes
When you sail
Wherever you sail
Won’t you get out of life
What you get out of life
Won’t you get out of life
What you get out of love
You saw me fall before I fell
I was under your spell
You knew full well
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Pistol Crazed
02:40
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You play me like a Royal Flush
I sway beneath your gentle touch
Swear I’m forever yours
It matters not that there I was
But here I am
I somehow lost my way
Was led so far astray from love
Long gone pistol crazed
Long gone shattered haze
How far you let me fall
Is not clear at all
I hesitate to touch
To touch would be too much
Like love
That’s pistol crazed
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The Wreck In The Bay
01:00
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Reason To Feel
03:34
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To your sister
You’re still a baby
But love’s a weird science
It captivates
If I had to chose
I had to chose
I’d chose to get tangled up in your hair
Did you feel so right
Had you reason to feel
That the feeling
Was so right
Are you searching
For an exit
Because your rooms are flooded?
Now I really want to hear
Your masts sway
Did you feel so right
Had you reason to feel
That the feeling
Was so right
Good looks
And a missing change of the lights
Your looks brought a travelmania
And a dawn into my life
Your looks brought you onto a slide of gold
Please oh please will you marry me
Although I’m no textiles millionaire
Could you if you would
Please let me explore a design
To express my love
To get myself tangled up in your hair
By the wild ocean alone with you
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Memory Fever (2)
03:44
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Clair de lune
Tonight you’ll make me see
With my customary glee
And kill this fever
You knew my dreams
You knew my little wing
You knew she made me sing
I caught a fever
I remember the fever
Drifting down
Still feel the fever
Drifting down
Clair de lune
I’m as sick as any man might be
If you could bring her back to me
Could I just see her?
You knew my dreams
You knew my little wing
You knew she made me sing
Til I caught a fever
Remember the fever…
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And then they broke down
They were shoving and laughing
Laughing and shoving
Then the car began to roll down hill
He thrust himself in front of it
He managed to hold her still
He didn’t know where the hell he was
But he guessed it must have been
Somewhere off Crown Circus
Why is this feeling so rich?
Why is that brave orchid in your hair?
Why do I feel as though I’ll never sleep
Why do I love you so on this windswept street?
I think she was fumbling for the bonnet-release
And her coat fell open
And her perfume wafted into the night air
She was all ankles and legs
Ankles and legs
With her thighs moulding her skirt
It was too much
He fell to his knees laughing
He felt his head giddy at this height
In a white heat
All life
All Gods
All the seas and the stars
I see in your face
Why is this feeling so rich?
Why is that brave orchid in your hair?
Why do I feel as though I’ll never sleep
After the pandemonium in this godforsaken street?
They climbed to her apartment
On the top floor
He pulled her hair back from her face
He had to ask himself why
Are you so scared to fall from grace?
Why must life be so full
So rich and so ripe
With a head, heady fragrance
A beautiful poison
Called Love?
But I want you to remember me
As a boy of nineteen
Who loved your blue eyes
Who loved you madly
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Perpetual Adoration
03:42
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In your alligator shoes
It will be your salvation
If I could be those shoes
It would be a revelation
There’s something
In the blue of your eyes
Leaves me perpetually adoring you
If I could be those shoes
And see you when the time comes
See you when the time goes home
If I could be those shoes
And always walking with you
And sway towards a swamp
Ask me why I loved you
There’s something
In the blue of your eyes
Leaves me perpetually
Sometimes
Perpetually adoring you
Perpetually adoring you
Your psychosomania
In time comes
A swift on the coast
A comfort to me
Swift on the coast
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Sweet Deceit
00:36
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By sweetly smiling
I won’t appear to be
Shunning you
Which I don’t want to do
But I must
I was crushed
Driven by romantic dreams
Fuelled by nervous friction
Really quite smitten
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14. |
The Honeysuckle Rose
04:58
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Last night
Amidst the chorus calls
I heard your name
Rise to meet me
It wasn’t just a case
Of first night nerves
Undeterred we spoke sweetly
As many other young lovers might do
Just like a dream
Maybe it was a dream
Love’s young one come true
Where the honeysuckle rose to meet me
You wore a blossom divine
Your words stirred the night so sweetly
Said your love was forever mine
An everlasting kiss
All the way
So full of bliss
Was the kiss
Of my angel my only one
Behold a wreck
Do you want a whistling boy to return?
To sail across to your island
Where the stars shine so bright
Let us this last time
Get cut off by the evening tide
Let us this last time side by side
Where the honeysuckle rose to meet me
You wore a blossom divine
Your words stirred the night so sweetly
Said your love was forever mine
An everlasting kiss
All the way
So full of bliss
Was the kiss
Of my angel my only one
Blown as blossom
All my foolish dreams
In a blonde dirt desert
May expire
Through desire
To see a play of moonlight on your face
I’m just so tired of being alone in this place
You once told me
You thought it was the end
You never thought I’d say
I love you again
Sweeter than honey
Kisses of candy
Melt in my mouth
“She came to tell me she’d gone
As if I didn’t know that
As if I didn’t know my own bed”
Let the honeysuckle rise to meet me
You wear a blossom divine
Your words stir the night so sweetly
Say your love is forever mine
An everlasting kiss
All the way
All the way
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