Reprinted here are the lyrics from the Stranglers ‘Feline’ album,
\n(C) 1982 CBS Records. Songs included are:<\/p>\n
Midnight Summer Dream
\n It’s a Small World
\n Ships That Pass in the Night
\n The European Female
\n Let’s Tango in Paris
\n Paradise
\n All Roads Lead to Rome
\n Blue Sister
\n Never Say Goodbye<\/p>\n
These are, of course, reprinted without permission.<\/p>\n
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Midnight Summer Dream<\/p>\n
Woke up on a good day
\nAnd the world was wonderful
\nA midnight summer dream had me in its spell.<\/p>\n
I dreamt about an old man
\nSat and watched the rain all night
\nHe couldn’t sleep a wink as all the drops fell.<\/p>\n
He told me of the beauty
\nHidden in our foreheads
\nHe told me of the ugliness
\nWe show instead.<\/p>\n
And when we put a foot wrong do we learn
\nFrom all the pain
\nA midnight summer dream as he watched the rain.<\/p>\n
Then at midnight he poured another drink
\nAnd bent my ear
\nAfter midnight we sat up half the night
\nOr maybe more
\nAnd he began to tell me what it was all for<\/p>\n
I woke up in an armchair
\nHe had gone i don’t know where
\nLeft me there to sit and look at the rain
\nDon’t remember much at all
\nBut his words were echoing
\nA midnight summer dream and then wake again.<\/p>\n
Maybe I’ll never find him
\nMaybe he’s gone forever
\nMaybe I’ll have to sit here
\nWatching weather.<\/p>\n
One thing’s pretty certain helped me
\nMake it in the night
\nShowed me somewhere else besides wrong and right
\nAnd at midnight if you can’t sleep
\nThen I can bend your ear
\nAfter midnight we’ll sit up half the night
\nOr maybe more
\nAnd I’ll begin to tell you what it is all for.<\/p>\n
Wake up on a good day and the world
\nFeels wonderful
\nMidnight summer dream has me in its spell.<\/p>\n
It’s a Small World<\/p>\n
Many roads to travel down and there are
\nMany surprises to find
\nBut as luck will have it you can stumble
\nIn the valley of the blind
\nFriends will always tell you fate will rear
\nIts ugly head to frighten you
\nBut the hands of time hold something and
\nHe’s offering it all to you.<\/p>\n
Watch out for a surprise
\nIt’s nature’s biggest prize
\nAnd if it comforts you discover
\nIt’s a small world too.<\/p>\n
Read your books and study hard to find the kick
\nThat makes you carry on
\nAnd if luck’s a kind friend she will show you
\nHow and why it all began.<\/p>\n
Just look in the backyard
\nYou won’t have to look hard
\nThe crossword’s final clue discover
\nIt’s a small world too.<\/p>\n
When your friends are gathered round
\nAnd you draw straws to find out who goes first
\nClimb the wall out of the pleasure garden
\nSee a flower die of thirst.<\/p>\n
A circle’s always round
\nThe truth lies underground
\nYou may just join the few discover
\nIt’s a small world too.<\/p>\n
Ships That Pass in the Night<\/p>\n
We’re waiting for better weather on a ship
\nTo pass in the night
\nSolve all of our problems for us on a ship
\nTo pass in the night
\nWe don’t care if it’s one way passage on a ship
\nTo pass in the night
\nKeep all of the lanterns burning for the ship
\nTo pass in the night.<\/p>\n
Suddenly you see a mast
\nApproaching you pretty fast
\nHope it’s not like the last
\nBut it just sails right past.<\/p>\n
Keep scanning romantic oceans for the ship
\nTo pass in the night
\nSome kind of religious notion on a ship
\nTo pass in the night
\nOr vote for a politician as a ship
\nTo pass in the night
\nOr pay for a good physician like a ship
\nTo pass in the night<\/p>\n
Suddenly you see a mast
\nApproaching you pretty fast
\nHope it’s not like the last
\nBut it just sails right past….<\/p>\n
The European Female<\/p>\n
I knew she was a feline
\nShe moved with ease and grace
\nHer green eyes they held mystery.<\/p>\n
No emotion on her face.<\/p>\n
She speaks her lips are kissing
\nThe air around her face
\nI don’t always under-stand her
\nBut I love her air and grace.<\/p>\n
The European female she is here
\nThe European female’s here
\nWe’ll be together for a thousand years
\nAnd do you really fear
\nThat you might fall.<\/p>\n
I saw her in the Strasse
\nAnd in the Rue as well
\nPursued her in the Hight Street
\nShe had me in her spell.<\/p>\n
Let’s Tango in Paris<\/p>\n
Sentimental through the night
\nSharing secret candlelight
\nWe’re away
\nEvery day
\nLaughing, joking just sustains
\nSituation quite insane
\nFlowing wine
\nQuite sublime
\nNot so far for me to say
\nI could take you there today
\nLet’s tango in Paris.<\/p>\n
You might find yourself with me
\nShare your glass of vanity
\nWe’re away
\nEvery day
\nNot for me to say
\nI could take you there today
\nLet’s tango in Paris.<\/p>\n
Paradise<\/p>\n
I went in search of paradise
\nThey said it would be good for my head
\nSo I went in search of paradise
\nBut she took me by my head instead.<\/p>\n
Paris – London
\nGlamour and despair
\nRuins – we were ruined over there
\nRuins – we ruined over there-er-er.<\/p>\n
And when you think you’re in paradise
\nBut then you find your arms are tied
\nCaptive in the name of paradise
\nThe chains are all her lies.<\/p>\n
Paris – London etc.<\/p>\n
The picture on the screen is moving still
\nIt’s moving all the time
\nIf only you could freeze frame a moment there
\nYou could have paradise all the time.<\/p>\n
Paris – London etc.<\/p>\n
I don’t think anyone ever found paradise
\n‘Cos paradise is based on lies….<\/p>\n
(Repeat till fade.)<\/p>\n
All Roads Lead to Rome<\/p>\n
The streets of Tarmac are strait as a die
\nWith steel fingers clawing at the sky
\nInside the wall of the citadel
\nYellow chariots race
\nPeasants and their peasants’ smells
\nHungry enough to touch your face.<\/p>\n
The beasts from the end of the century
\nAdorn themselves with jewellery
\nInside the wall of the citadel
\nYellow chariots race
\npeasants and their peasants’ smells
\nHungry enough to touch your face.<\/p>\n
Their eyes they change colour from grey to green
\nAnd when they’re blue they weigh the scene
\nThe endless games played in the timeless zone
\nRemind me all roads lead to Rome
\nInside the wall of the citadel
\nYellow chariots race
\nPeasants and their peasants’ smells
\nHungry to touch your frightened face
\nAll roads lead to Rome
\nAll roads lead to Rome
\nAll roads lead to Rome
\nAll roads lead to Rome.<\/p>\n
Blue Sister<\/p>\n
Blue sister please don’t cry
\nBlue sister dry your eyes
\nYour lover’s been taken away by some friends
\nThat he met in the night.<\/p>\n
That scene’s not a new one to you
\nYou’ve seen it a million times too
\nThe players, their lines are old too
\nBlue sister know that I care about you.<\/p>\n
Blues sister are no cure
\nFor you sister that’s for sure
\nYour eyes have been shouldering pain
\nAnd the tears show emotion so pure.<\/p>\n
That scene’s not a new one to you …. etc.<\/p>\n
Blue sister you’ll survive
\nBlue sister’s inner drive is
\nYour man don’t drive him away
\nIf you want him here stay alive.<\/p>\n
That scene’s not a new one to you …. etc.<\/p>\n
Never Say Goodbye<\/p>\n
Black friend of the night
\nWhy did you leave in such a hurry?
\nWhite friend of the day
\nYou left us juggling our worries
\nNever say goodbye
\nFor we’ll all be with you someday
\nFond adieus but never say goodbye
\nLike lovers in the past
\nThey swim and surface in our memories
\nQuestions never asked
\nI’ll save them all for the next century
\nNever say goodbye
\nFor we’ll all be with you someday
\nFond adieus but never say goodbye.<\/p>\n
Tell us what’s over the horizon
\nIs it worth the chance
\nTo hang around for more surprising?
\nNever say goodbye
\nFor we’ll all be with you someday
\nFond adieus but never say goodbye.<\/p>\n
+++ lyrics typed by Someone Else, Ai fictionwriters 2\/86<\/p>\n
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