Iris
by Live

Album: Throwing Copper (1994)
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  • I liked the way my hand looked
    On your head
    In the presence of my knuckles
    But the beauty of this vision alone

    Just like yesterday's sunset
    Has been perverted by the sentimental
    And mistaken for love
    The felix of your truth will always break it

    And the iris of your eye will always shake it
    And the armies the armies I have created
    Will always hate it
    Will always bait you on

    I liked the way my hand looked on your head
    In the presence of my struggle
    But the beauty of this vision alone
    I can't shake from my tree just yet

    It keeps invading all my private moments
    Listen to me now Writer/s: CHAD ALAN GRACEY, CHAD DAVID TAYLOR, EDWARD JOEL KOWALCZYK, PATRICK DAHLHEIMER
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

  • Christine from New YorkOral sex? Huh? Where do you see that?
  • Bluethunder42 from EarthWould a band as good as Live waste such a great piece of music on a brain dead topic as oral sex? The lyrics aren't even correct on this site and many others. Where it says "Until I take their Price", they should actually be "Until I take their flags", which is a reference to the armies mentioned in the chorus. It has always struck me as a song about a battle over something that broke out and the two sides battle over conflicting versions of the story in its aftermath.
  • AnonymousIt's about revolution, truth, justice... https://bit.ly/3rYPThr
  • John from Brisbane, AustraliaIt's about masturbation.
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