Give Me Your Future

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 / Hoo hoo / Get the picture? / No no no no / Yeah / Walk a tight rope / 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? Wooooo woo woo / Have you a future? / No no no no / Yeah

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 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 favorite / 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 / Spins 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 choke-up 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 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 Oh mother of pearl / I wouldn't trade you / For another girl

—Roxy Music, "Mother of Pearl"

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