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The Lovers

by Iron Wife

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As ever, this is rough and ready, but I wanted to release it into the wild.

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The Lovers

Don’t think you’ve fooled me
My eyes are oh - my eyes are open.
And I know what comes next.
I know you. Don’t forget that I know you.

You play your lovers like you play the guitar,
you sing the songs you know and then you put them down,
and I love too many and too much,
but not for long enough to ever settle down.

And you play your lovers like you play cards,
while you’re winning you stay, and when you lose you run,
but I can love like fire till I burn out,
so let’s love love for as long as it’s fun.

Let’s not exchange hearts.
We’d break. We’d break them.
But when these moments come round,
we should take - come on let’s take them.

You play your lovers like you play the guitar,
you sing the songs you know and then you put them down,
and I love too many and too much,
but not for long enough to ever settle down.

And you play your lovers like you play cards,
while you’re winning you stay, and when you lose you run,
but I can love like fire till I burn out,
so let’s love love for as long as it’s fun.

I don't need
your love really.
But I want, oh I want.

We both play our lovers like we play the guitar,
we sing the songs we know and then we put them down,
we love too many and too much,
but not for long enough to ever settle down.

And we play our lovers like we play cards,
while we’re winning we stay, and when we lose we run,
but we can love like fire till we burn out,
so let’s love love for as long as it’s fun.

So let’s love love love while it still feels like fun.

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released December 18, 2017
Lyrics and music written and performed by Angela Cleland.

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Iron Wife UK

If you can see through moustaches, you might recognise me from one of my parallel identities - poet Angela Cleland, novelist Cleland Smith, or mother-of-two Angela Smith.

The name Iron Wife stems from a cover of an Iron Maiden song I recorded for my husband.

If my music sounds a little bit homemade, that's because it is. It's just up here to stop it cluttering up my brain. ... more

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