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Talk About Love

from The First Snow by Blake

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This song originally had an extra couple of verses but I thought it was too long so got rid. You can hear them in the full version of the song which is included as a bonus track when you download the album.

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We can talk of football or the colours of the sea
We can speak of politics or who we’d like to be
Have a big discussion all about the birds and bees
As long as we don’t talk about love

We could chat for hours about the bands we’d like to see
Conversing about God or that new thing on ITV
Anything at all as long as it’s not you and me
Cos we mustn’t talk about love

Cos you know what they’ll say if we talk about love
And we know it’s a shame we can’t talk about love, love
Talk about love

We can discourse freely about clothes and books and jam
Market forces, racing courses, darts, Afghanistan
Methodism, atheism, feminism, man
As long as we don’t talk about love

We can talk of geography or history of art
We can speak of paragliding, judo and Descartes
As long as we are silent about matters of the heart
Cos we mustn’t talk about love

But you know what they’ll say if we talk about love
And we know it’s a shame we can’t talk about love, love
Talk about love

In another life we wouldn’t hear the chatter
But it cuts like a knife when it really shouldn’t matter to us
It really shouldn’t matter

We can utter words about the aristocracy
Communicate with sounds about the way we take our tea
The thing that is forbidden is the way of being free
Cos we mustn’t talk about love

We can mention Nelson or the Treaty of Versailles
Edison or medicine, the colour of our eyes
Verbalise quite freely about other things besides
As long as we don’t talk about love

Cos you know what they’ll say if we talk about love
And we know it’s a shame we can’t talk about love, love
Talk about love

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from The First Snow, released December 24, 2011
Blake - vocals, acoustic guitars, bass.

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Blake England, UK

UK 60s-tinged/ lo-fi /indie pop
/psychedelic rock /jangle /power pop /singer-songwriter and DIY musician. Proudly signed to the Subjangle record label. Mailing list sign up (receive a free download of my song 'Vinyl Junkie'): eepurl.com/dV04f ... more

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