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Affairs of the Heart Lyrics
She looked at me across the room
Emerging from a silk cocoon
Along beneath venetian chandeliers
Against the moon her body rocks
Her eyes were cunning like a fox
The wings of passion fly on all frontiers
From this fire theres no returning
No escape your heart is burning
Love becomes a lethal weapon
No one is to smart
In affairs of the heart
Now upon the bridge she waits
Dreaming of our tangled fates
Her face was like a ghost with eyes of jade
I fell just like a falling star
A victim of this coup detat
I could not see behind this masquerade
From this fire theres no returning
No escape your heart is burning
Love becomes a leathal weapon
Be careful where you start
In affairs of the heart
Sometimes I think Ill never learn
Were all those promises in vain
Do the wings of fire still remain
All is fair in love and war
The tender draw the shortest straw
Like autumn leaves they vanish in the air
Is this the time we say good-bye
I call her room theres no reply
Tonight we end this fleeting love affair
From this fire theres no returning
No escape your heart is burning
Love becomes a leathal weapon
Sharper than a dart
In affairs of the heart
Emerging from a silk cocoon
Along beneath venetian chandeliers
Against the moon her body rocks
Her eyes were cunning like a fox
The wings of passion fly on all frontiers
No escape your heart is burning
Love becomes a lethal weapon
No one is to smart
In affairs of the heart
Dreaming of our tangled fates
Her face was like a ghost with eyes of jade
I fell just like a falling star
A victim of this coup detat
I could not see behind this masquerade
No escape your heart is burning
Love becomes a leathal weapon
Be careful where you start
In affairs of the heart
Were all those promises in vain
Do the wings of fire still remain
The tender draw the shortest straw
Like autumn leaves they vanish in the air
Is this the time we say good-bye
I call her room theres no reply
Tonight we end this fleeting love affair
No escape your heart is burning
Love becomes a leathal weapon
Sharper than a dart
In affairs of the heart
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While this beautifully haunting ballad by Greg Lake doesn't chart with most ELP fans as being worthy of a kind word, it spoke to me of something we've all experienced at one time or the other, well, most of us anyway. We've all had a great love affair that started out as he describes when first seeing her "across the room," only to later have it transition into the most painful heartbreak that sought to nearly destroy us. The first 50 times I played it, lol, it sent chills over me & gave me a fleeting glimpse of a propensity for love that I seem no longer able to feel. At 71, it merely evokes a memory of some of the great or doomed loves of my life.
[Edit: Typo]