Love Story - Tanita Tikaram

You know it’s alright

Just to take me home

To your serious house

With your serious tones

You’re a serious man

With a serious smile

But the summer is hot

And I might surprise you

In a very short while

We’ll have left them behind

With their faces quite pained

As they try to remind themselves

Oh, it’s really so wrong

It’s really so out

And it’s really not cool

To take a young girl about

And I know the young man

With a century’s face

A philosopher king

He will try to amaze

With examples of love

And examples of hate

And to see them explode

We will just have to—

It’s a simple love story

It grows better all the time

You can tell me all about it

But first I’ll tell you about mine

You know it’s alright

To be trustful;

have tact

But the problem’s complex

When you keep holding back

We could talk for an hour

We could talk for a day

But the people we know

Will still have their say

Talk of such virtuous women

Talk of such noble men

But if I’m on the level

I have met none of them

Oh, I’ve met troubled people

With deep and dark thoughts

Who have hallowed my name

And sworn I will get caught

But why waste real feeling

And why waste our time

To let the earth bow

To no virtue of—

It’s a simple love story

It grows better all the time

You can tell me all about it

But first I’ll tell you about mine

You know it’s alright

Just to make mistakes

But to tail it with hurt

Is the gravest make

We all create lives

Which we don’t understand

But to point the accused

Is a job for no man

And we curse our own longing

And curse our own ways

I won’t be satisfied

With my soul that’s—

It’s a simple love story

It grows better all the time

You can tell me all about it

Now I’ve told you about mine