Playlist Bryan Ferry

bryan ferry - slave to love

Tell her I'll be waiting
In the usual place
With the tired and weary
And there's no escape

To need a woman
You've got to know
How the strong get weak
And the rich get poor

Slave to love
Ooh
Slave to love

You're running with me
Don't touch the ground
We're restless hearted
Not the chained and bound

The sky is burning
A sea of flame
Though your world is changing
I will be the same

Slave to love
Ooh
Slave to love

Slave to love (nanananana)
Ooh (nanananana)
Slave to love
And I can't escape
I'm a slave to love

The storm is breaking
Or so it seems
We're too young to reason
Too grown up to dream

Now spring is turning
Your face to mine
I can hear your laughter
I can see your smile

Slave to love (nanananana)
Ooh (nanananana)
Slave to love
And I can't escape
I'm a slave to love

Slave to love (nanananana)
Ooh (nanananana)
Slave to love
And I can't escape
I'm a slave to love

(nanananana)...

bryan ferry - gates of eden

Of war and peace the truth just twists
Its curfew gull just glides
Upon four-legged forest clouds
The cowboy angel rides
With his candle lit into the sun
Though its glow is waxed in black
All except when 'neath the trees of Eden.

The lamppost stands with folded arms
Its iron claws attached
To curbs 'neath holes where babies wail
Though it shadows metal badge
All and all can only fall
With a crashing but meaningless blow
No sound ever comes from the Gates of Eden.

The savage soldiers sticks his head in sand
And then complains
Unto the shoeless hunter who's gone deaf
But still remains
Upon the beach where hound dogs bay
At ships with tatooed sails
Heading for the Gates of Eden.

With a time-rusted compass blade
Alladin and his lamp
Sits with Utopian hermit monks
Side saddle on the Golden Calf
And on their promises of paradise
You will not hear a laugh
All except inside the Gates of Eden.

Relationships of ownership
They whisper in the wings
To those condemned to act accordingly
And wait for succeeding kings
And I will try to harmonize with songs
The lonesome sparrow sings
There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden.

The motorcycle black madonna
Two-wheeled gypsy queen
And her silver-studded phantom cause
The gray flannel dwarf to scream
As he weeps to wicked birds of prey
Who pick up on his bread crumb sins
And there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.

The kingdoms of Experience
In the precious wind they rot
While paupers change possessions
Each one wishing for what the other has got
And the princess and the prince
Discuss what's real and what is not
It doesn't matter inside the Gates of Eden.

The foreign sun, it squints upon
A bed that is never mine
As friends and other strangers
From their fates try to resign
Leaving men wholly totally free
To do anything they wish to do but die
And there are no trials inside the Gates of Eden.

At dawn my lower comes to me
And tells me of her dreams
With no attempts to shovel the glimpse
Into the ditch of what each one means
At times I think there are no words
But these to tell what's true
And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.

bryan ferry - that s how strong my love is

If I was a songbird way up there
I?d go with love most everywhere
I?ll be the moon when the sun goes down
Just to let you know that I?m still around
That?s how strong my love is, that?s how strong my love is
That?s how strong my love is, that?s how strong my love is
I?d be the weeping willow drowning in my tears
And you could go swimming when you?re here
And I?d be the rainbow after the tears are gone
Wrap you in my colours, keep you warm
That?s how strong my love is, that?s how strong my love is
That?s how strong my love is, that?s how strong my love is
I?d be the ocean so deep and wide
And get all the tears whenever you cried
And I?d be the breeze after the storm is gone
To dry your eyes and wrap you warm
That?s how strong my love is, that?s how strong my love is
That?s how strong my love is, that?s how strong my love is
That?s how strong my love is, that?s how strong my love is
So much love, so much love
That?s how strong my love is
Any kind of love you want, I would get for you
Any kind of love, any kind of love
That?s how strong my love is...that?s how it is

bryan ferry - fool for love

In days gone by
There was a king
A fool for love
And all it brings

So high and wise
Could read your mind
A fool for love
And love is blind

A crowded street
An empty train
A fool for love
You cry in vain

A fool for love
A fool for love
A fool for love

In days gone by
There was a queen
A fool for love
And all it means

Red ruby lips
Don't touch me eyes
A fool for love
And love is blind

A fool for love
A fool for love
A fool for love

like flowers in the rain
I'm twisted up inside
I'll never be the same

I hear the same old lines
you played me for a fool
you really hurt my pride

A fool for love
A fool for love
A fool for love

In days gone by
There was a king
A fool for love
And all it brings

So high and wise
Could read your mind
A fool for love
And love is blind

bryan ferry - another time another place

I knew there´d be times like this
When i´d sit at home and reminisce
Oh how one´s memory slips...
So i close my book
And sighing, take a second look
Sure enough - i´m quite alone
Still, there no sound
So i spin-a-disc around and around
And slide the needle in the groove...
Drive down any highway baby
But don´t bid me adieu
Through a sea of twisting byways
I´ll be trailing you
Eternity´ll solve our problem
Take it as you may
And destiny will stand corrected
Should we connect some day
Another time - to spend
Another place - to go
Another love to share with you
Deep emotion springs from this life
Wells up inside
Quick, pick me up and pour me over
The clouds crying by
Another time - to spend
Another place - to go
Another love this time it´s true
Anyway you want me lover
Used to be your tune
I looked you up - you looked me over
My lucky strike won through
I was cut, dried and discarded
Just a rusty blade
But since i found my four leaf clover
I´ve seen the light again
All the tears
In the world
Seem to fall from you
At their
Rainbow´s end
A halcyon day
Or two
How soon
We fool ourselves
How slow
We tread
Astral planes
Collide head on
And on and on we glide
As if forever

bryan ferry - chance meeting

I never thought I?d seen you again
Where have you been until now?
Well how are you? how have you been?
It?s a long time since we last met
It seems like yesterday when I
First saw you in your red dress smile
How could I forget that day
I know that time spent well is so rare

bryan ferry - 2hb

Oh I was moved by your screen dream
Celluloid pictures of living
Your death could not kill our love for you
Take two people - romantic
Smoky nightclub situation
Your cigarette traces a ladder
Here's looking at you kid
Celebrate years
Here's looking at you kid
Wipe away tears
Long time, since we're together
Now I hope it's forever
Ideal love flies away now
White jacket, mmmn, black tie wings too
You gave her away to the hero
Words don't express my meaning
Notes could not spell out the score
But finding not keeping's the lesson
Here's looking at you kid
Hard to forget
Here's looking at you kid
At least not yet
Your memory stays
It lingers ever
Will fade away never

bryan ferry - sweet and lovely

Sweet and lovely
Sweeter than the roses in may
Sweet and lovely
Heaven must have sent her my way.
Skies above me
Never were as blue as her eyes;
And she loves me
Who would want a sweeter surprise?
When she nestles in my arms so tenderly
There's a thrill that words cannot express.
In my heart a song of love is taunting me
Melody haunting me.
Sweet and lovely
Sweeter than the roses in may
And she loves me
There is nothing more i can say

bryan ferry - all i really want to do

I ain't lookin' to compete with you
Beat or cheat or mistreat you
Simplify you, classify you
Deny, defy or crucify you
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

No, and I ain't lookin' to fight with you
Frighten you or tighten you
Drag you down or drain you down
Chain you down or bring you down
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

I ain't lookin' to block you up
Shock or knock or lock you up
Analyze you, categorize you
Finalize you or advertise you
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

I don't want to straight-face you
Race or chase you, track or trace you
Or disgrace you or displace you
Or define you or confine you
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

I don't want to meet your kin
Make you spin or do you in
Or select you or dissect you
Or inspect you or reject you
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

I don't want to fake you out
Take or shake or forsake you out
I ain't lookin' for you to feel like me
See like me or be like me
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

bryan ferry - are you lonesome tonight

Are you lonesome tonight
Do you miss me tonight
Are you sorry we drifted apart
Does your memory stray
To a brighter summer day
When I kissed you and called sweetheart
Do the chairs in your parlour seem empty and bare
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there
Is your heart filled with pain
Shall I come back again
Tell me dear
Are you lonesome tonight
Do the chairs in your parlour seem empty and bare
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there
Is your heart filled with pain
Shall I come back again
Tell me dear
Are you lonesome tonight

bryan ferry - shameless

I can read your lips
I can read your mind
It's all I want to hear
why am I so blind?

And the way we were
Fatefully entwined
In a shameless world
Rock 'n' roll desire

All the things you are
In a single word
Famously inspired
Privately absurd

And the way we were
Fatefully entwined
In a shameless world
Rock 'n' roll desire

And the days go by
Morning, noon and night
Permanently wired
To a simple life

And the way we were
Fatefully entwined
In a shameless world
Rock 'n' roll desire

bryan ferry - a hard rain s a gonna fall

Oh where have you been, my blue eyed son?
Where have you been, my darling young one?
I?ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
Walked and I?ve crawled on six crooked highways
Stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
Been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I?ve been ten thousand miles in mouth of a graveyard
And it?s a hard rain?s a-gonna fall
And what did you see, my blue eyed son?
What did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a new-born baby with wild wolves around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin?
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a bleedin?
A white ladder all covered with water
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
And it?s a hard rain?s a-gonna fall
And what did you hear, my blue eyed son?
What did you hear, my darling young one
I heard the sound of thunder that roared out a warning
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a blazin?
Heard ten thousand whisperin? and nobody listenin?
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin?
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
And it?s a hard rain?s a-gonna fall
Oh who you did meet, my blue eyed son?
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
I met a young child beside a dead pony
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I met a young woman whose body was burning
A young girl, she gave me a rainbow
I met one man who was wounded in love
Another man who was wounded with hatred
And it?s a hard rain?s a-gonna fall
Oh what?ll you do now, my blue eyed son?
What?ll you do now, my darling young one?
I?m goin? back out ?fore the rain starts a-fallin?
Walk throught the depths of the deepest black forest
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
Where the executioners face is always well hidden
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
Where black is the colour, and none is the number
And I?ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountains so all souls can see it
Then I?ll stand in the ocean until I start sinking
But I?ll know my song well before I start singing
And it?s a hard rain?s a-gonna fall

bryan ferry - a wasted land

When love´s gone
There´s no one
A waste land
A ghetto
When love´s gone
A tear on
A waste land
Your pillow

bryan ferry - all along the watchtower

"There must be some way out of here" said the joker to the thief
"There's too much confusion", I can't get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.

"No reason to get excited", the thief he kindly spoke
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late".

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.

bryan ferry - all night operator

Can´t you hear me talkin´ to you
I´m callin´ you one more time
All night operator
Dial me a better line
Can´t you hear me talkin´ to you
Do telephones make you cry?
I try to write letters
Only my pen runs dry
Though my words sound so confused
The feeling is running strong
Stick tight operator
Help me to pass it on
Final connection
A bridge before the fall
Receiver unrestin´
I count on your call
Am i just a number to you
A handful of empty sighs
All night operator
Reader between the lies
With half the world dreamin´
I see through your eyes
A switchboard breathin´
A diary of crossed lines
Can´t you hear me talkin´ to you
I´m callin´ you one more time
All night operator
Dial me better line
If you feel me driftin´ away
Slippin´ into my song
All night operator
All of a sudden - gone

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