The Everlasting Muse - Belle & Sebastian

I want to find this girl I know

I need to take her out

I set a snare in evening air

Made of faith and hope and doubt

I want to spend some time with her

Learn the secrets of her trade

I wouldn’t mean to cross the line

And look into the other side

Forbidden to my kind

Forbidden to my kind

I need to hang out with my love

The raven-headed sprite

I know I’ll never dance like her

Or keep her up at night

I need to hang around with her

I need to let her know

Her cause is mine

I’m but a slave

I look into her wondrous gaze

And taste the strangest chord

And make the purest noise

What I would do to meet the girl

I’d stand out in the rain

Outside my window watching close, she will appear again

Still polishing her crazy nail

Still wispy, careless, drunk on song

If I could only right my wrongs and take her to my favourite place

And steal a melody

Cause I need only see her face

And doubts and worries fall away

And music rushes in

Listen to the sound of life

(I don’t want to be friends)

Drink deep of the day

(I don’t need your advance)

Wait for her, but don’t obsess

(Why do you have to ask?)

She’ll go the other way

(No, I don’t want to dance)

Winds will blow and storms will rage

(But your phrases are poor)

The muse is always sad

(And you try hard to rhyme)

Money tends to disappear

(And I can’t read your words)

Beauty crumbles with the years

(But I can read your mind)

But music is for us

(Music is for us)

Music is for us

(Music is for us)

If I could only see her face and know that she was close

There is a deeper magic here, the everlasting muse

I left the danger for an hour

I left the sadness for a day

I know that I am in safe hands

She pays the bill and smokes cigar

And on the napkin silk

She weaves a manuscript with skill

An intro, outro, middle eight

A tapestry of words

A subtle gift to modern rock

She says, «be popular, play pop

And you will win my love»

A subtle gift to modern rock

She says, «be popular, play pop

And you will win my love»