From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V7 #284 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Monday, August 26 2002 Volume 07 : Number 284 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] SOTW: "Mother of Pearl" [Colleen Matan ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 12:32:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Colleen Matan Subject: [AVALON] SOTW: "Mother of Pearl" The song of the what/whenever is "Mother of Pearl" from _Stranded_. As before the discussion is open to anything related to the song, and these are only suggestions: love it? hate it? lyrics/music it changed my life live vs. studio version(s) (if applicable) the video (if any) that reminds me... Mother Of Pearl (Ferry) Turn the lights down/way down low Turn up the music/hi as fi can go All the gang's here/everyone you know It's a crazy scene/hey there just look over your shoulder Get the picture?/No no no no .......(Yes) Walk a tightrope/your life-sign-line Such a bright hope/right place, right time What's your number?/Never you mind Take a powder/but hang on a minute what's coming round the corner? Have you a future?/No no no no .......(Yes) Well I've been up all night (again?) party-time wasting is too much fun Then I step back thinking of life's inner meaning and my latest fling It's the same old story all love and glory, it's a pantomime If you're looking for love in a looking glass world it's pretty hard to find Oh mother of pearl I wouldn't trade you for another girl Divine intervention always my intention, so I take my time I've been looking for something I've always wanted but was never mine But now I've seen that something just out of reach glowing, very Holy Grail Oh mother of pearl lustrous lady of a sacred world Thus even Zarathustra another time loser could believe in you With every goddess a let down, every idol a bring down It gets you down But the search for perfection, your own predilection Goes on and on and on and on Canadian Club love, a place in the country, everyone's ideal But you are my favorita and a place in your heart dear makes me feel more real Oh mother of pearl I wouldn't change you for the whole world You're highbrow holy, with lots of soul melancholy shimmering Serpentine sleekness was always my weakness like a simple tune But no dilettante filigree fancy beats the plastic you Career girl cover exposed and another slips right into view Oh looking for love in a looking glass world is pretty hard for you Few throwaway kisses the boomerang misses spin round and round Fall on featherbed quilted faced with silk softly stuffed eider down Take refuge in pleasure just give me your future we'll forget your past Oh mother of pearl submarine lover in a shrinking world Oh lonely dreamer your choker provokes a picture cameo Oh mother of pearl so so semi-precious in your detached world Oh mother of pearl I wouldn't trade you for another girl Oh mother of pearl I wouldn't trade you for another girl Oh mother of pearl I wouldn't trade you for another girl ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://helios.unive.it/~tcecilia/meetup.html US ticket sale info: http://www.thewebgal.com/roxymusic/ (updated weekly) ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V7 #284 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest