Mandarine - John Gold

Mandarine I try to sleep but I just keep remembering

And hoping i awaken from a better dream

Feeding on the things that break my back

If it were summertime i’d probably take you home

And we would smoke and rhyme

But now you’re through

So whatever you do don’t turn on the light

You see it through what was true and you wonder why

Every night

And i believed you when you said your simple soul

Was of a body who really means it

The conversation turns to what’s going wrong for you

And i just couldn’t believe that anything would come from you

Because you say you’re through and you won’t then you do

Then it’s all mine

Either your rose is in the shadows or your diamonds are too bright

And we would talk about the northern lights

And how paradise was not so far away

And how we soon awaken to the tide some day

But now the stars are round and behind your eyes every night

And we would talk about the northern lights

And how paradise was not so far away

And how we soon awaken to the tide some day

But now the stars are round and behind her eyes every night

I believed you when you said your simple soul

Was of a body who really means it

And that’s from somebody who really needs it