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Lyr Req: Approaching Lavender (Gordon Lightfoot)

16 Mar 03 - 04:55 PM (#911445)
Subject: approaching lavender
From: GUEST

looking for apporaching lavender song by gordon lightfoot

16 Mar 03 - 05:00 PM (#911447)
Subject: Lyr Add: APPROACHING LAVENDER (Gordon Lightfoot)
From: catspaw49

APPROACHING LAVENDER ......Gordon Lightfoot

If you'd like to spend the afternoon approaching lavender
You'll feel just fine but one thing's sure
You'll never be the same
If you'd like to try your hand at understanding lavender
Then you must be very sure
That life is not a game
You might even learn a thing or two approaching lavender
You'll soon be on a one night tour
Forgetting your own name
You won't need a reason just to be alone with lavender
For the light so warm and pure
Will draw you like a flame

The colors that surround you there will be the shade of lavender
Shadows dancing everywhere
Like flowers in the rain
You will find your tongue's on fire while lying next to lavender
With words you never spoke before
And will not speak again

Oh sweet lavender I understand you perfectly
There is no way that I can see
You living by yourself
Oh sweet lavendar I must be with you constantly
Your presence means so much to me
Much more that life itself

Oh sweet lavender as fragrant as the name you bear
Please cast away the clothes you wear
And give your love to me
Oh sweet lavender your smile is like the golden sun
I'd love to see you laugh and run
As naked as the sea

If you'd like to spend the afternoon approaching lavender
Don't try and get the best of her
She will not share the blame
If you'd like to try your hand at understanding lavender
Then you must be very sure
That life is not a game
There is no shame

16 Mar 03 - 07:50 PM (#911561)
Subject: RE: approaching lavender
From: GUEST

this song is about lightfoot coming to terms with is bisexuality

16 Mar 03 - 09:32 PM (#911612)
Subject: Lyr Add: approaching lavender
From: Sorcha

Just an Add: for catspaw's post of 16 Mar 03 - 05:00 PM this thread.

17 Mar 03 - 04:53 AM (#911723)
Subject: RE: approaching lavender
From: Lanfranc

Wow - Catspaw - I couldn't type that lyric in 5 minutes!

I suppose you just had it handy in a form you could cut and paste!

Awesome, whatever!

Alan

17 Mar 03 - 10:22 AM (#911886)
Subject: RE: approaching lavender
From: Jim Dixon

Spaw probably just copied it from one of these pages.

17 Mar 03 - 10:33 AM (#911895)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: approaching lavender
From: Mrrzy

Great album, anybody got Sit Down Young Stranger?

17 Mar 03 - 11:02 AM (#911934)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: approaching lavender
From: John Hardly

One of my favorite albums! I've still got an original cover "Sit Down Young Stranger" and, when I bought a new copy ('cause I wore out the first....ah, the downside of vinyl), I got a copy of "If You could Read My Mind"

..I like the first album better ;-)

17 Mar 03 - 11:18 AM (#911953)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: approaching lavender
From: Sandy Creek

Go to www.gordonlightfoot.com for lyrics, schedules, and updates.

GUEST...please explain "coming to terms with is bisexuality."

17 Mar 03 - 11:45 AM (#911991)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: approaching lavender
From: GUEST,Dale

Right, John Hardly.   I also have the "Sit Down Young Stranger" LP. The name was changed to cash in on the popularity of "If You Could Read My Mind." A really good album, but for me, none compare to the very first GL album with the brown cover.   I bought it strictly for that easy-going Lightfoot sitting in a chair, guitar in hand. I was never sorry.

My favorite example of multiple versions of an album was the original Don Williams album, available on JMI, DOT, ABC-DOT, MCA and I can't remember what all other combinations. I used to THINK I had them all, but I suppose I didn't catch them all. Like the Lightfoot albums, I don't think any of them were more valuable than the others.

17 Mar 03 - 11:56 AM (#912006)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: approaching lavender
From: khandu

I had "Sit Down..." but lost it years ago. "Don Quixote" was my favorite album. Great songs...great singer/songwriter.

Ken