Savage Garden -Lyrics


Songs from the Album:

to the moon and back

carry on dancing

tears of pearls

I want you

truly madly deeply

violet

all around me

universe

a thousand words

break me shake me

mine 

santa monica


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1. going to the moon and back

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She's taking her time making up the reasons

To justify all the hurt inside

Guess she knows from the smiles and the look in their eyes

Everyone's got a theory 'bout the bitter one

They're saying "Mamma never loved her much"

And "Daddy never keeps in touch, that's why she shies away from human affection"

But somewhere in a private place

She packs her bag for outerspace

And now shes waiting  for the right kind of pilot to come

And she'll say to him:

 

CHORUS

Now we're flying to the moon and back if you'll be...

If you'll be my baby

Got a ticket for a world we don't belong

So would you be my baby?

Oooh Ooh

 

She can remember a time when she felt needed

If love was red then she was colourblind.

All her friends had been tried for treason

And crimes that were never defined

She's saying" Loves like a barren place

And reaching out for human faith

is like a journey I just don't have a map for."

So baby's gonna take a dive, put shift to overdrive

Send a signal that she's hanging all her hopes on the stars

What a pleasant dream...

 

CHORUS

"Mamma never loved her much"

And "Daddy never keeps in touch, that's why she shies away from human affection"

But somewhere in a private place

She packs her bag for outerspace

And now shes waiting  for the right kind of pilot to come

And she'll say to him:

 

 

 

 

 

CHORUS

fade to end.


2. carry on dancing

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The moonlight...

Shines down interstellar beams

And the grove tonight is something more than you've ever seen

The stars and planets taking shape

A stolen kiss has come too late.

 

 

 

 

 

CHORUS

In the moonlioght

Carry on, Keep Romancing

Carry on, Carry on dancing

In the moonlight

Carry on, Keep Romancing

Carry on, Carry on dancing

 

You're never safe till you see the dawn,

And if the clock strikes past midnight

The hope is gone

To move under...

 

CHORUS

 

Move.  Closer. Passion. Stronger.

There's a magic only two can tell

In the dark night

Ultra Violet is a wicked spell.

The stars and planets taking shape

A stolen kiss has come too late.

 

CHORUS

 

Moving on... Moving all night.

 


3. tears of pearls

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And we stare each other down

like victims in the grind

Probing all the weakness and hurt still left behind and we cry

The tears of pearls

We do it.

Oh we do it.

 Is love really the tragedy the way you might describe?

Or would a thousand lovers still leave you cold inside?

Make you cry...

These tears of pearls.

 

CHORUS

All these mixed emotions we keep locked away like stolen pearls

Stolen pearl devotions we keep locked away from all the world

 Your kisses are like pearls

so different and so rare.

But anger stole the jewels away

and love has left you bare,

Made you cry...

these tears of pearls

 Well I could be the tired joker

pour my heart to get you in

Sacrifice my happiness just so I could win

Maybe cry...

these tears of pearls

 CHORUS

 We twist and turn where angels burn

Like fallen soldiers we will learn

that once forgotten, twice removed

Love will be the death...

The death of you

 

CHORUS


4. I want you

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Any time I  need to see your face

I just close my eyes

and I am taken to a place where your crystal mind

and magenta feelings take up shelter in the base of spine

Sweet like a chic-a-cherry-cola

I don't need to try and explain

I just hold on tight

And if it happens again

I might move so slightly to the arms and the lips and the face

of the face of the human cannonball

That I need to, I want to 

Come stand a little bit closerBreathe in and get a bit higher

You'll never know what hit you

When I get to you.

Ooh I want you

I don't know if I need you

 But Ooh I'd die to find out.

Ooh I want you

I don't know if I need you

 But Ooh I'd die to find out.

I'm the kind of person who endorses

a deep commitment

Getting comfy, getting perfect

is what I live for

But a look, then a smell of perfume

It's like I'm down on the floor

And I don't know what I'm in for.

Conversation has a time and a space

in the interaction of a lover and a mate

But the time of talking,

using symbols using words

can be likened to a

deep sea diver

who is swimming with a raincoat.

Come stand a little bit closer

Breathe in and get a bit higher

You'll never know what hit you

When I get to you.

 

CHORUS

Any time I  need to see your face

I just close my eyes

and I am taken to a place where your crystal mind

and magenta feelings take up shelter in the base of spine

Sweet like a chic-a-cherry-cola

 I don't need to try and explain

I just hold on tight

And if it happens again

I might move so slightly to the arms and the lips and the face

of the face of the human cannonball

That I need to, I want to

Come stand a little bit closer

Breathe in and get a bit higher

You'll never know what hit you

When I get to you.

 

CHORUS x2

 

Ooh I want you

I don't know if I need you

 But Ooh I'd die to find out.

Ooh I want you

I don't know if I need you

 But Ooh I'd die to find out. (So can we find out)

 


 

5. truly madly deeply

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I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish I'll be your fantasy

I'll be your hope, I'll be your love, be everything that you need

I'll love you more with every breath, truly madly deeply do.

I will be strong I will be faithful

'cause I'm counting on

A new beginning

A reason for living

A deeper meaning, yeh.

 

 

CHORUS

I want to stand with you on a mountain,

I want to bathe with you in the sea

I want to lasy like this forever, until the sky falls down on me.

And when the stars are shining

brightly in the velvet sky.

I'll make a wish and send it to heaven

Then make you want to cry

The tears of joy for all the pleasure in the certainty

That we've surrounded by the comfort and protection of

 The highest powers in lonely hours,the tears devour you

 

CHORUS

 

Oh can you see it baby, you don't have to close your eyes,

cause it's standing right before you

All that you need will surely come.

I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish I'll be your fantasy

I'll be your hope, I'll be your love, be everything that you need

I'll love you more with every breath, truly madly deeply do.

 

 

CHORUS


 

6. violet

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(door knocks, enters party)

If there's a way that you could be

everything you want to be,

Would you complain that it all came too easy?

Just like the games with you and me.

A resolution hard to see.

But that's okay 'cause I don't see things that are plain to see.

 I've got a dream to take you over

Exploding like a supernova

I'm gonna crash into your world.

And that's no lie

 You want to give ecstasy

together with certainty

But you're afraid that the pleasure won't be needed

In a way, we're the same two people looking out to sea

For a wave that would carry all our fantasies.

 If there's a way to infiltrate you

Sway your mind and complicate you

I'm gonna crash into your world.

And that's no lie

Let your body move into the doorway

to the disco inside your head.

(violet)

wear a colour that you want to cling to

The colour inside your head(violet)

 Contemplate jealously intermixed with urgency

A million things take a damned good shot at you and me.

 If there's a way to infiltrate you

Sway your mind and complicate you

I'm gonna crash into your world.

And that's no lie

 

Let your body move into the doorway

to the disco inside your head.

(violet)

wear a colour that you want to cling to

The colour inside your head(violet)

I'm gonna take you,

I'll do my best to break

I'm gonna take you higher

And that's no lie

 Common sense is a game many people don't like to play

But give it in and the moment takes you either way.

 I've got a dream to take you over

Exploding like a supernova

I'm gonna crash into your world.

And that's no lie

Let your body move into the doorway

to the disco inside your head.

(violet)

wear a colour that you want to cling to

The colour inside you head(violet)

 If there's a way that you could be

everything you want to be,

Would you complain that it all came too easy?

In a way, we're the same two people looking out to sea

For a wave that would carry all our fantasies.

 


7. all around me

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Well you know every time I look

at that expression printed on the page,

I think I hear you

Whispering the maguic and the

compliments I need so badly

So baby come on

so baby come on

 now i've been runniong circles riound the though

that you'd find me baby

someday maybe

But all the psychic powers I've been sending your way

 

CHORUS

So can't you hear me say?

I want your arms all around me

I wan t your face yeah all around me

I want your perfume all around me

I like the way you move and do the funky groove.

 All around me I want you

All around me I need you x2

 

CHORUS

 Like a  good chardonnay,

chilled for a day

You're smooth and crisp and on display

Like cartier, Armani, like TAG, Gucci, Versace.

In the middle of the night you're a kiss so long

the only good thing when all is wrong.

You;'re a magic time reversal clock,

you're the fries on the side with a cherry on top.

You're sleek, velvet gold lame.

Patent leather, enchante.

You're a legend you're a glamour queen.

God I'm running out of words but you know what I mean.

 All around me I want you

All around me I need you x2

 

CHORUS x2

So slide into your Jaguar, or

Porsche baby, there you are.

Well chop,chop darling, au revoir.

Pick your things up, you're a star.

 


8. Universe

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Well I'd like to take you as I find you

Imagine our clothes are on the floor

Feel my caress soft and gentle

So delicate you try for more

But you know baby

You know baby does it right

And you know baby does it right

 

CHORUS

 Universe inside of your heart

You gotta let me know

so you can be free baby

You wanted it so much,

and now that's it's over

You don't know what you want

 Put time in a capsule

Two minds consensual

Entwinde to perfection

If we could...

 Cuddle up close

Lay on my chest now

Listen to our heart-beats coming down

If you get tired you close your eyes now

When you wake up I won't be found

'Cause I know baby

I know you're the nervous kind

With so much going on in your mind

 

CHORUS

 But let me tell you that, this time,

I'm gonna make you mine

(I won't let go)

Cause I know this time

I'm gonna make sure I look out for me.

'Cause you know baby

Well you know baby does it right

And you know baby does it right

You will only end up lost in loneliness

And wake up with the words already on your lips

So I'll let you go, baby

So I'll let you go...

 

CHORUS


 

9. a thousand words

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We stumbled in a tangled web,

decaying friendships almost dead

And hide behind a mask of lies

We twist and turn and we avoid,

all hopes of salvage now devoid

I see the truth inside your eyes

So take all this noise into your brain

 and send it back again

I'll bear the cost, shed my skin, call you up and then...

I'll say the words out loud

 

CHORUS

 You could resurrect a thousand words to deceive me

more and more

A thousand words will give the reasons why I don't need you

any more.

Time manipulates your heart

preconceptions torn apart

Begin to doubt my state of mind

But I won't go down on what I said

I won't retract convictions read

So take all this noise into your brain

 and send it back again

I'll bear the cost, shed my skin, call you up and then...

I'll say the words out loud

 

CHORUS

I'll say the words out loud.

I'll say a thousand words or more.

 Manipulation, Farbrication.

Conversion, Annihilation

I'll say a thousand words or more.

  CHORUS


10. break me shake me

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I never thought I'd change my opinion again

But you moved me in a way that I've never known.

You moved me in a way that I've never known.

 But straight away you just moved into position again

You abused me in a way that I've never known x2

 

CHORUS

So break me! shake me! hate me! take me over.

When the madness stops then you will be alone.

So break me! shake me! hate me! take me over.

When the madness stops then you will be alone.

 You're the kind who deals with the games in the mind

Well you confuse me in a way that I've never known x2

 

CHORUS

She says, "I can help you, but what do you say?"

But it's not free baby, you'll have to pay

You just keep me contemplating, that your soul is slowly fading

God don't you know I live with a ton of regret?

'Cause I used to move you in a way that you've never known

Then I accused you in a way that you've never known

But you hurt me in a way that I've never known...

 

CHORUS

Listen baby, you'll be..

You'll be alone.

Break me shake me hate me take me make me

Fake me break me shake me hate me take me

Break me.


 

11. mine

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I wait in the darkness.

Frozen winds surround my face.

In the cover of darkness I can make believe it's you.

I feel you like the rain, I feel you like a storm cloud building in my heart

I wonder if you know the pain,

to want the one thing you haven't got.

 

CHORUS

Just a twist in time ...and you

could be mine

Just a sip of wine ...and you

could be mine

Just a kiss devine... ooh ooh

A hand brushes by my love.

A smile fuels a steel inferno

You don't have to die to leave my world.

Stand still and you've departed.

It seems I'm not on your mind and I'm just wasting my time.

I'm just a fool to believe.

In the death of night can you feel me inside?

I wish that you could concieve...

 

CHORUS

...and you could be mine

Won't you leave me in the darkness.

Take away the pride, all the dignity that's buried inside.

Can't you see I'm standing naked?

I'll bear all the crosses and the crucifixes you can provide.

If you could decide.

 

CHORUS

...and you could be mine


 

12. santa monica

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In Santa Monica, In the winter time,

The lazy streets so undemanding

I walk into the crowd

In Santa Monica,

you get your coffee from the coolest places

on the Promenade

Where people dress just so.

Beauty so unavoidable, everywhere it's there.

I sit and wonder what am I doing here?

 

CHORUS

But on the telephone line

I am anyone

I am anything I want to be...

I could be a supermodel or Norman Mailer

And you wouldn't know the difference

Or would you?

In Santa Monica, all the people got modern names

like Jake or Mandy,

And modern bodies too.

In Santa Monica on the boulevard,

you have to dodge those inline skaters

Or they'll knock you down

I never felt so lonely

Never felt so out of place

I never wanted something more than this...

 

CHORUS

But on the telephone line

I am any height

I am any age I want to be...

I could be a caped crusader or space invader

And you wouldn't know the difference

Or would you?

 

CHORUS

 But on the telephone line

I am any height

I am any age I want to be...

I could be a caped crusader or space invader

And you wouldn't know the difference

Or would you?


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