(These lyrics were originally from Andrew Marvick's The Garden.)

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"Oh To Be in Love"

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Written by Kate Bush

As the light hits you,

As you shift along the floor,

I find it hard to place my face.

How did I come to be here, anyway?

It's terribly vague, what's gone before.*

I could have been anyone.

You could have been anyone's dream.

Why did you have to choose our moment?

Why did you have to make me feel that?

Why did you make it so unreal?

Oh! To be in love,

And never get out again.

Oh! To be in love,

And never get out again.

Oh! To be in love,

And never get out again.

All the colours look brighter now.

Everything they say seems to sound new.

Slipping into tomorrow too quick,

Yesterday always too good to forget.

Stop the swing of the pendulum! Let us through!**

Oh! To be in love,

And never get out again.

Oh! To be in love,

And never get out again.

Oh! To be in love,

And never get out again.

Oh! To be in love,

And never get out again.

Oh! To be in love,

And never get out again.

Oh! To be in love,

And never get out again.

[*--In the early demo version "gone" is replaced by "been.".

[**--In the demo version the line is: "Stop the swing of the pendulum and let us through!"]

©1978 EMI/Kate Bush

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