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Look around you, look up here
Take time to make time
Make time to be there
Look around, be a part
Feel for the winter
But don't have a cold heart
And I love you best
You're not like the rest
You're there when I need you
You're there when I need
I'm gonna need you
A long time ago
I had a lady to love
She made me think of things
I never thought of
Now she's gone and I'm on my own
A love song has come into my mind
A love song
It was there all the time
So lady
Let me take a look at you now
You're there on the dance floor
Making me want you somehow
Oh lady
I think it's only fair
I should say to you
Don't be thinkin' that I don't want you
'Cause maybe I do
Look around, come to me
I have no answers
But know where I wanna be
I look around, play a part
I was born in the winter
And cooled by a warm heart
And I love you best
You're not like the rest
You're there when I need you
You're there when I need
I'm gonna need you
So lady
Let me take a look at you now
You're there on the dance floor
Making me want you somehow
Oh lady
I think it's only fair I should say to you
Don't be thinkin' that I don't want you
'Cause maybe I do
Don't be thinkin' that I don't want you
Lady I do
Take time to make time
Make time to be there
Look around, be a part
Feel for the winter
But don't have a cold heart
And I love you best
You're not like the rest
You're there when I need you
You're there when I need
I'm gonna need you
A long time ago
I had a lady to love
She made me think of things
I never thought of
Now she's gone and I'm on my own
A love song has come into my mind
A love song
It was there all the time
So lady
Let me take a look at you now
You're there on the dance floor
Making me want you somehow
Oh lady
I think it's only fair
I should say to you
Don't be thinkin' that I don't want you
'Cause maybe I do
Look around, come to me
I have no answers
But know where I wanna be
I look around, play a part
I was born in the winter
And cooled by a warm heart
And I love you best
You're not like the rest
You're there when I need you
You're there when I need
I'm gonna need you
So lady
Let me take a look at you now
You're there on the dance floor
Making me want you somehow
Oh lady
I think it's only fair I should say to you
Don't be thinkin' that I don't want you
'Cause maybe I do
Don't be thinkin' that I don't want you
Lady I do
Lyrics submitted by IllusoryFreedom
Lady Lyrics as written by Graham George Goble Graeham George Goble
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Songtrust Ave, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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The first 2 stanza are the voice of his deceased mother. The "call", if you will. The rest is his belated "response" to her call. It was a tumultuous relationship with his mother. Of course the song is written with the overtone of intimate relations but that wasn't the point in the lyric. If we look at the undertones and select choices of wording, context etc we may see that this song was written about a man's discovery of his love for his mother, postmortem. Neither did a very effective job of expressing their love for each other. But today he sees the light in their relationship and realizes he really does indeed, love his mother.
It's very easy for people to take a sexually intimate perspective to song lyrics in general because it's a cheap and easy approach with our brains. And cultural/social programming in entertainment media has folks hook on things like sex, outside validation, outside approval etc. However, a significant about of lyrics are crafted with a spiritual, intellectual or, 'enlightened' perspective. If we open our hearts to that, we may begin to understand what song lyrics really mean frfr.
@TheCarpenter No, you are have taken things a bit too far here with the references to Graeham Goble's mother. He does reference her in the song (born in the winter and cooled by a warm heart) and you could say he compares the purity of his feelings for 'Lady' with the love he has for his mother but the song is not explicitly about her. As Graeham has said on a number of times, it's about a young woman he saw dancing at one of his early gigs, a woman he never got a chance to talk to. He wrote the song in one sitting so we can take it that he was quite taken by her and inspired by her looks and likely imagined a relationship that he knew would never happen. <br /> cheers