Drawing back the curtains,
sluggish city daylight in the afternoon...
here's that special silence,
just before you walk out of the hotel room.
Each time we're so close I assume
that we'll never be again.
Oh, how long can we pretend
that we're just good friends?
A casual affair is all that you can spare
from your emotional change;
a calendar of meetings, strangers on the street
the best we ever arrange.
Now I just can't stand all the pain,
all the constant make and mend:
how long must we pretend
that we're just good friends?
I gave you my devotion,
hiding nothing up my sleeve.
If I walked clean out of your life
would you even notice me leave?
So much tangled-up emotion,
should I stay or should I go?
If I walked clean out of your life
how long would it take you to know?
Are we such good friends?
You used to say I
love
you,
you used to say You
make
me
feel
alive
and
young.
Now we're just a habit,
a flavour, once a month, to titillate your tongue.
Oh, how sordid this has become
as the means approach the end â
oh, how long can we pretend
that we're still good friends?
I gave you my devotion,
hiding nothing up my sleeve.
If I walked clean out of your life
would you even notice me leave?
So much tangled-up emotion,
should I stay or should I go?
If I walked clean out of your life
how long would it take you to know?
Are we such good friends?
Are we still good friends?
- :
- Peter Hallock: Countertenor Recital (1975)
- Live at Rockpalast, Hamburg 1981
- Other World
- Consequences
- Thin Air
- Miscellaneous
- Fireships
- The Fall Of The House Of Usher
- Out Of Water
- Patience
- Sitting Targets
- A Black Box
- PH7
- The Future Now
- Over
- The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage
- In Camera
- Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night
- The Love Songs
- Refugees: A Charisma Records Anthology 1969-1978