Michael Franks

Lady, when you love me
I feel home sweet home
inside of you sublime
This garden's sure to grow you know
Our love is just like summertime
Parrots eye the fruit
And we make love
Between the harpsichords and lutes
Our green limbs intertwine you know
Our love is just like summertime
Our souls collide
We slip and slide
We feel no pain
And with our lives locked together
We weather the wind and rain
We grow the farm
We're safe from harm
Inside this circle of summertime
Both of us know is our love

Lovers from the past with poison smiles
All pray our love will never last
But we are trees not vines you know
Our love is just like summertime
As the song begins
These shipwrecks fade
Behind a wave of violins
Vivaldi made us rhyme you know
Our love is just like summertime

Every time I asked you to be truthful you lied
And when I lost my temper you cried
Crocodile tears and spoke double talk
It's the same old alibis and stories again
I redeye there to meet you and then
All you ever give me is double talk

You think that love means cope
Your life is like some daytime soap
Where all the dialogue is just double talk
Well I've got news for you
This little drama's through
'Cause I can't take no more of your double talk
Your double talk

You're so jive - sometimes I think your brain was mislaid
You've broken every promise you made
You ought to see a doctor for double talk

Never mind 'bout all the times we started again
I had the idea there to meet you and then
All you ever give me is double talk

Your brand of kindness smarts
You call me when I'm on the charts
But all you ever give me is double talk
Well I've got news for you
This little drama's through
'Cause I can't take no more of your double talk
Your double talk

Musical Interlude

It may come as quite a shock
But I'm hip to your double talk
All you ever give me is double talk
Each time you lie your profile grows-
It looks just like Pinocchio's
And I can't take no more of your double talk

It may come as quite a shock
But I'm hip to your double talk
All you ever give me is double talk
Each time you lie your profile grows-
It looks just like Pinocchio's
And I can't take no more of your double talk

There isn't any part of me she does not know
We've been together about a thousand years or so
Still almost instantly my love begins to show
Every time she whispers

It makes no difference if I'm upon my luck
When she invites me in my gloom becomes unstuck
I feel the barriers around me deconstruct
Every time she whispers.

Tensions dissolve when we touch
In her arms the world is erased when it's too much
All of my deep blue disappears
As soon as I hear her whisper

Passion evolves when we touch
In her arms I measure success counting how much
Music she composes in sighs
And how many times she whispers my name.

Love is the weakness that we need to make us strong
How can a hundred million Frenchmen all be wrong?
And I'm completely at the mercy of her song
Every time she whispers.

ved in a painting by Renoir
Dined late in those
sidewalk cafes
But lately I seem to be
more inclined
For a walk in the rain

I danced to Grappelli
and Django
Saw candlelight
through beaujolais
But lately I seem to be
more inclined
For a walk in the rain

We laughed at the weather
Out walking without umbrellas
How well I remember
Your face when
we walked in the rain

You know I was crazy about you
Some sadness
caused me to unwind
Maybe I will meet you
If fate is kind
On a walk in the rain

We laughed at the weather
Out walking without umbrellas
How well I remember
Your face when
we walked in the rain

We laughed at the weather
Out walking without umbrellas
How well I remember
Your face when
we walked in the rain

The music begins
And the titles fade in
Starring you and me
The hero is struggling to say
That his lady is far away
In her prison of wishes
We love and we fight
But it's all Day For Night
Just a Masquerade
We reel 'til the red light is off
Then we go take our faces off
Like two clowns in a sideshow

Love is like two dreamers dreaming the exact same dream
Just another technicolor romance on the screen
Love is like two dreamers dreaming the exact same dream
Just another technicolor romance on the screen

I keep you in frame
And I whisper your name
'til the picture fades
The feeling is already gone
I don't know why am I going on
Can't remember the ending

Whenever I explore the land of Yin
I always take one on the chin
And now this lioness has almost made me tame
I can't pronounce her name
But eggplant is her game
The lady sticks to me like white on rice
She never cooks the same way twice-
Maybe it's the mushrooms
Maybe the tomatoes
I can't reveal her name
But eggplant is her game
When my baby cooks her eggplant
She don't read no book
And she's got a Gioconda
Kind of dirty look
And my baby cooks her eggplant
About 19 different ways
But sometimes I just have it raw
With mayonnaise
Maybe it's the way she grates her cheese
Or just the freckles on her knees
Maybe it's the scallions
Maybe she's Italian
I can't reveal her name
But eggplant is her game.