Burning Questions

Graham Parker Burning Questions Lyrics
1.Release Me


2.Too Many Knots To Untangle


3.Joe Meek's Blues


4.Love Is A Burning Question


5.Platinum Blonde


6.Long Stem Rose


7.Short Memories


8.Here It Comes Again


9.Mr Tender


10.Just Like Hermann Hesse


11.Yesterday's Cloud

There's a man in my suitcase, a woman in your clothes
Skeletons inside us that dance on hot coals
Cannibals are outside following our trail
All our information comes from junk mail

Don't leave it among us, don't let it loose in the crowd
Don't let it reign over us, cos that was yesterday's cloud
Still hanging over us

There's an elephant of memory, a monkey on a back
A poisonous whirlpool, swirling and black
I know we have tasted the fobidden ugly fruit
Get it out of our system rip it by the root

Chorus repeat

The rain came out of nowhere, a bad flashback
Someone hit the switch and the sky turned black
Why is this happening, why won't it go away?
If this is a game i don't wann play

Chorus repeat


12.Oasis

I am a lucky man that's what i think
I might come close to the edge but i never sink
And i notice that vulnerable look in your eyes tonight
And in the desert that passes for my heart, sweet rain is
falling tonight
You're my oasis, you're my oasis, oasis
Be my oasis and i will try not to be your mirage

I must be choked with emotion, i can't find the right words to
say
I'm not a pillar of devotion, but don't let that stand in your
way
And as the sun sinks blood red in the west it reminds me of your
bleeding heart
And as i lay down my head on your breast nothing can tear us
apart
Cos you're my oasis, you're my oasis
Be my oasis and i won't be your mirage

Cos i am a lucky man, yeah that's what i think
I might be swimming for my life but i'll never sink
And as the quicksand comes up to my neck and holds me down like
a grave
I will reach out for your hand and as i touch it i'm saved by an
oasis

You're my oasis, oasis
Be my oasis and i will try not to be your mirage
And i won't be your mirage


13.Worthy Of Your Love

If i had the slightest clue as to what you are and what's inside
you
I would know exactly what to do and be worthy of your love

If a flower bloomed in the frozen wastes and the moon had a
smiling face
And the stars had not a hint of grace i'd be worthy of your love

I would be there when you're sad and lonely
I would not care if i sacrificed the only
Life i had, i'd give it up as if it were nothing

If i had what i haven't got, a second chance a second shot
I'd be something that i'm not, i'd be worthy of your love

I'd be there inside of every moment
I would know how every moment is a moment lost
Unless it's lived as if it's loved

If i could make up all the rules i would not carry out the work
of fools
Or use deception and fear as tools and i'd be worthy of your
love
I'd be worthy of your love