Beauty Queen

Album: For Your Pleasure (1973)
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  • Valerie please believe
    It never could work out
    The time to make plans
    Has passed, faded away
    Oh the way you look
    Makes my starry eyes shiver
    Then I look away
    Too much for one day
    One thing we share
    Is an ideal of beauty

    Treasure so rare
    That even devils might care
    Your swimming-pool eyes
    In sea breezes they flutter
    The coconut tears
    Heavy-lidded they shed
    Swaying palms at your feet
    You're the pride of your street
    While you worship the sun
    Summer lover of fun

    Gold number with neighbours
    Who said that you'll go far
    Maybe someday be a star
    A fast mover like you
    And your dreams will all come true
    All of my hope, and my inspiration
    I drew from you
    Our life's pattern's drawn in sand
    But the winds could not erase
    The memory of your face
    Deep in the night

    Plying very strange cargo
    Our soul-ships pass by
    Solo trips to the stars, in the sky
    Gliding so far
    That the eye cannot follow
    Where do they go
    We'll never know Writer/s: BRYAN FERRY
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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