The love of a woman

A fear of the phone

A secret message to a happy home

I've never been so scared

I never knew you cared

 

Love gets dangerous

Love gets dangerous

 

There's a fear that comes from being in danger

Being in love with a total stranger

Putting our futures in jeopardy

When love is a secret, fear is the key

When we meet in the street

My terror is complete

 

Love gets dangerous

Love gets dangerous

 

Like a drug that threatens to take my life

Lust is a cancer, love is a vice

When she holds me I understand

Respect and fear go hand in hand

No need to act tough

It scares me just enough

 

Love gets dangerous

Love gets dangerous

 

 

 

Thinking back now,

I suppose you were just stating your views

What was it all for

For the weather or the Battle Of Agincourt

And the times that we all hoped would last

Like a train they have gone by so fast

And though we stood together

At the edge of the platform

We were not moved by them

 

With my own hands

When I make love to your memory

It's not the same

I miss the thunder

I miss the rain

And the fact that you don't understand

Casts a shadow over this land

But the sun still shines from behind it.

 

Thanks all the same

But I just can't bring myself to answer your letters

It's not your fault

But your honesty touches me like a fire

The Polaroids that hold us together

Will surely fade away

Like the love that we spoke of forever

On St Swithin's Day

 

 

 

 

The busy girl buys beauty

The pretty girl buys style

And the simple girl buys

What she's told to buy

And sees her world

Through the brightly lit eyes

Of the glossy romance of fashion

Where she can learn...

Top tips for the gas cook

Successful secrets of a sexual kind

The daily drill for beautiful hair

And the truth about pain

 

What was Anna Ford wearing?

What did Angela Rippon say?

What will you do

When you wake up one morning

To find that God's made you plain

In a beautiful person's world?

And all those quick recipes

Have let you down

And you're 20&1/2 and not yet engaged

Will you go look for the boy who says

I love you let's get married and have kids

 

The busy girl buys beauty

The pretty girl buys style

And the simple girl buys

What she's told to buy

And sees her world

Through the brightly lit eyes

Of the glossy romance of fashion

Where she can learn

Top tips for the gas cook

Successful secrets of a sexual kind

The daily drill for beautiful hair In a mail order paradise...

 

 

 

I'll never forget the first day I met her

That September morning was clear and fresh

The way she spoke and laughed at my jokes

The way she rubbed herself Against the edge of my desk

She became a magic mystery to me

And we'd sit together in double

History twice a week

And some days we'd walk the same way home

And it's surprising how quick

A little rain can clear the streets

We dreamed of her and compared our dreams

But that was all that I ever tasted

She lied to me with her body you see

And I lied to myself 'bout the chances I'd wasted

 

The times that we were close

Were far and few between

In the darkness at the dances in the school canteen

Did she close her eyes as I did

When we held each other tight

And la la means I love you

 

She danced with me and

I still hold that memory

Soft and sweet

And I stare up at her window

As I walk down her street

But I never made the first team,

I just made the first team laugh

And she never came to the phone,

She was always in the bath

In the end it took me a dictionary

To find out the meaning of unrequited

While she was giving herself for free

At a party to which I was never invited

 

I never understood my failings then

And I hide my humble hopes now

Thinking back she made us want her

A girl not old enough to shave her legs

 

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