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For your Pleasure - Roxy Music - Island 1973 
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Do the Strand
Beauty Queen
Strictly Confidential
Editions of You
In Every Dream Home a Heartache
Bogus Man
Grey Lagoons
For your Pleasure
Do the Strand
There's a new sensation
a fabulous creation
a danceable solution
to teenage revolution.
Do the strand love
when you feel love
It's the new way
that's why we say.
Do the strand.
Do it on the tables
Quaglino's place or mabel's
Slow and gentle
Sentimental
all styles served here
Louis seize he prefer
Laissez-faire le strand
Tired of the tango
Fed up with fandango
Dance on moonbeams
Slide on rainbows
in furs or blue jeans
You know what I mean
Do the strand. Uh.
Had your fill of quadrilles
the madison and cheap thrills
Bored with the beguine
the samba isn't your scene
They're playing our tune
by the pale moon
We're incognito
down the lido
and we like the strand.
Arabs at oasis
Eskimos and chinese
if you feel blue
Look through who's who
See la goulue
and nijinsky
Do the strandsky.
Weary of the waltz
and mashed potato schmaltz
Rhododendron
Is a nice flower
Evergreen
It lasts forever
but it can't beat strand power.
The sphynx and mona lisa
Lolita and guernica
Did the strand.
Beauty Queen
Valerie please believe
It never could work out
the time to make plans
Has passed, faded away.
Oooh, the way you look
Makes my starry eyes shiver
then I look away
too much for one day.
One thing we share
Is an ideal of beauty
Treasure so rare
that even devils might care.
Your swimming-pool eyes
in sea breezes they flutter
the coconut tears
Heavy-lidded they shed
Swaying palms at your feet
You're the pride of your street
while you worship the sun
Summer lover of fun
Gold number with neighbours
Who said that you'll go far
Maybe someday be a star
a fast mover like you
and your dreams will all come true.
All of my hope,
and my inspiration
I drew from you
Our life's pattern's drawn in sand
but the winds could not erase
the memory of your face.
Deep in the night
Plying very strange cargo
Our soul-ships pass by
Solo trips to the stars - in the sky.
Gliding so far
that the eye cannot follow
where do they go
We'll never know.
Strictly Confidential
Before I die I'll write this letter
here are the secrets you must know
until the cloak of evening shadow
Changes to mantle of the dawn
Will it be sunny then I wonder ?
Rolling and turning
How can I sleep ?
Hold on till morning
What if I fall ?
Over the hills and down the valleys
Soaring aloft and far below
Lying on stony ground the fragments
Truth is the seed we tried to sow
Marking the time spent on our journey
There isn't much we have to show
Counting the cost in money only
Strikes me as funny don't you know ?
Tongue tied the thread of conversation
Weighing the words one tries to use
Nevertheless communication
this is the gift you must not lose
Hauling me always are the voices
(coro sussurrato) "Tell us are you ready now ?"
Sometimes I wonder if they're real
(coro sussurrato) "WeÕre ready to receive you now"
Or is it my own imagination ?
(coro sussurrato) "Have you any more to say ?"
Guilt is a wound that's hard to heal
(coro sussurrato) "It's a cross you have to bear"
Could it be evil thoughts become me
(coro sussurrato) "Tell us what you're thinking now"
some things are better left unsaid.
Magical moment
the spell it is breaking
there is no light here
Is there no key ?
Editions of You
Well, I'm here looking through an old picture frame
just waiting for the perfect view
I hope something special will step in to my life
another fine edition of you
a pin-up done in shades of blue.
Sometimes you find a yearning for the quiet life
the country air and all itÕs joys
but badgers couldnÕt compensate at twice the price
for just another night with the boys oh yeah
and boys will be boys, will be boys ...
They say love's a gamble, hard to win, easy lose
and while sun shines you'd better make hay
so if life is your table and fate is the wheel
then let the chips fall where they may
in modern times the modern way.
And as I was drifting past the lorelei
I heard those slinky sirens wail - whooo
so look out sailor when you hear them croon
You'll never been the same again, oh no
Their crazy music drives you insane - this way.
So love, leave me. do what you will
- Who knows what tomorrow might bring ?
Learn from your mistakes is my only advice
and stay cool is still the main rule
DonÕt play yourself for a fool
too much cheesecake too soon
Old money's better than new
no mention in the latest tribune
and don't let this happen to you.
In Every Dream Home a Heartache
In every dream home a heartache
and every step I take
Takes me further from heaven.
Is there a heaven ?
I`d like to think so.
Standards of living
They're rising daily
but home oh sweet home
It's only a saying
from bell push to faucet
in smart town apartment
the cottage is pretty
the main house a palace
Penthouse perfection
but what goes on
what to do there
better pray there.
Open plan living
Bungalow ranch style
all of itÕs comforts
Seem so essential
I bought you mail order
My plain wrapper baby
Your skin is like vinyl
the perfect companion
You're floatin' my new pool
De luxe and delightful
Inflatable doll
My role is to serve you
Disposable darling
Can't throw you away now
Immortal and life size
My breath is inside you
I'll dress you up daily
and keep you till death sighs
Inflatable doll
Lover ungrateful
I blew up your body
but you blew my mind.
Oh, those heartaches
Dreamhome heartaches.
Oh, those heartaches
Dreamhome heartaches.
Oh, those heartaches
Dreamhome heartaches. ...
Bogus Man
The bogus man is on his way
as fast as he can run
He's tired but he'll get to you
and shoot you with his gun.
Focussed his mind
on something he cared about
but it came out a shout
just like before.
The bogus man is at your heels
now clutching at your coat
You must be quick now hurry up
He's scratching at your throat.
Concealed his doubt
by skilful evasion
but he couldnÕt find out
about deception.
The bogus man is on his way
as fast as he can run
He's tired but he'll get to you
and show you lots of fun.
Grey Lagoons
Blue suns and grey lagoons
Silver starfish with honeymoons
all these and more to choose
if you...
Satin teardrops on velvet lights
Morning sickness on friday nights
Heaven knows what others I might bring
to you...
Broken partings making strange goodbyes
Hopeless cases with fake alibis
even hoping weÕll be there to share
with you.
Broken partings making strange goodbyes
Hopeless cases with fake alibis
even hoping weÕll be there to share
with you.
Blue suns and grey lagoons
Grey lagoons
Grey lagoons.
For Your Pleasure
For your pleasure
in our present state
Part false part true
like anything
We present ourselves.
The words we use tumble
all over your shoulder
Gravel hard and loose.
There all night lying
with your dark horse hiding
Abhorring such extremes.
You're rubbing shoulders
with the stars at night shining so bright
Getting older
but you'll wake up soon and fight
in the morning
Things you worried about
Last night
Will seem lighter
I hope things will turn out right.
Old man
through every step a change
You watch me walk away.
Tara... tara....
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