If There Is Something

Album: Roxy Music (1972)
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  • If there is something that I might find
    Look around corners
    Try to find peace of mind I say
    Where would you go if you were me
    Try to keep a straight course not easy
    Somebody special looking at me
    A certain reaction we find
    What should it try to be I mean
    If there are many

    Meaning the same
    Be specific just a game
    I would do anything for you
    I would climb mountains
    I would swim all the oceans blue
    I would walk a thousand miles
    Reveal my secrets
    More than enough for me to share
    I would put roses round our door
    Sit in the garden
    Growing potatoes by the score

    Shake your hair girl with your ponytail
    Takes me right back (when you were young)
    Throw your precious gifts into the air
    Watch them fall down (when you were young)
    Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
    You used to walk upon (when you were young)
    Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
    The hills were higher (when we were young)
    Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
    The trees were taller (when you were young)
    Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
    The grass was greener (when you were young)
    Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
    You used to walk upon (when you were young) Writer/s: Bryan Ferry
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Stéphane from Paris, FranceThe three stages of life ! that’s it.
    I am surprised no one noticed that :
    At the beginning of the song : youth, Innocent and carefree, cheerful. Then young adult, loving and absolutist, idealist, thinking things will last forever. But things start to degrade slowly but surely as you grow older and you finally end with only drums and piano like a heartbeat and only your memories, very nostalgic. But then you react to that, as a revolt that things have gone. And some resilience appears as all instruments come back. Time is over but you’ve lived and it was great. You finally find a new way of living with your memories and the few things you still can do, growing older. Soothed and resigned, you enjoy what you still can until it ends up as the rythm slows down at the very end, like your heart.

    It’s a masterpiece.
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