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Approaching Lavender Lyrics
If you'd like to spend the afternoon approaching lavender
You'll feel just fine but one thing's sure
You'll never be the same
If you'd like to try your hand at understanding lavender
Then you must be very sure
That life is not a game
You might even learn a thing or two approaching lavender
You'll soon be on a one night tour
Forgetting your own name
You won't need a reason just to be alone with lavender
For the light so warm and pure
Will draw you like a flame
The colors that surround you there will be the shade of lavender
Shadows dancing everywhere
Like flowers in the rain
You will find your tongue's on fire while lying next to lavender
With words you never spoke before
And will not speak again
Oh sweet lavender I understand you perfectly
There is no way that I can see
You living by yourself
Oh sweet lavendar I must be with you constantly
Your presence means so much to me
Much more that life itself
Oh sweet lavender as fragrant as the name you bear
Please cast away the clothes you wear
And give your love to me
Oh sweet lavender your smile is like the golden sun
I'd love to see you laugh and run
As naked as the sea
If you'd like to spend the afternoon approaching lavender
Don't try and get the best of her
She will not share the blame
If you'd like to try your hand at understanding lavender
Then you must be very sure
That life is not a game
There is no shame
You'll feel just fine but one thing's sure
You'll never be the same
If you'd like to try your hand at understanding lavender
Then you must be very sure
That life is not a game
You might even learn a thing or two approaching lavender
You'll soon be on a one night tour
Forgetting your own name
You won't need a reason just to be alone with lavender
For the light so warm and pure
Will draw you like a flame
Shadows dancing everywhere
Like flowers in the rain
You will find your tongue's on fire while lying next to lavender
With words you never spoke before
And will not speak again
There is no way that I can see
You living by yourself
Oh sweet lavendar I must be with you constantly
Your presence means so much to me
Much more that life itself
Please cast away the clothes you wear
And give your love to me
Oh sweet lavender your smile is like the golden sun
I'd love to see you laugh and run
As naked as the sea
Don't try and get the best of her
She will not share the blame
If you'd like to try your hand at understanding lavender
Then you must be very sure
That life is not a game
There is no shame
Song Info
Submitted by
butneveroutgunned On May 27, 2006
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Lavender: A seemingly innocent but addictive substance or person. Approach at your own risk. Deceptive… you won’t understand until you are entrapped. The melody is beguiling, belying the words.
This describes transcendent hetrosexual intimacy; two individuals meet in the deepest way that can never be duplicated with another person. All layers of pretense and deception are peeled away. The souls are bare and naked receiving each the other in the moment approaching lavendar in this unique hetrosexual intimacy at the deepest romantic level and it would be better if this would never end. I have been a life long fan of Gord. I wonder what he thinks of my interpretation?
It's a beautiful lyric poem, the words to a very beautiful song. At various times we think Lavender is a person, but sometimes it is just a color. The wordplay in the song is very good. I think Lavender may have been "one that got away." The beginning of the poem sounds like a warning. Lavender is very attractive but you have to take her seriously. If you don't, there are consequences. The middle describes the narrator's consuming need for Lavender. That leads us to think something bad is on the way because obsession goes bad. The narrator becomes separated from Lavender in a break-up scene off-stage. The last two verses repeat the warning of the beginning. Prose version: The writer became romantically involved with a strong, beautiful woman, but she takes life too seriously for him, and he has to leave.