Savage Garden

Lyrics
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(Savage Garden's lyrics are copyright of Sony Music)

Memories are designed to fade
Mine
Promises
Santa Monica
Tears of pearls

Memories are designed to fade (MADTF)

I'd never let you down when you're in a fix
I'd come running when you call, that's my weakness, baby
so connected are we

You get your kicks from the ghost of a memory
so busy turning away from reality, baby
that you just won't let it go

But memories fade
Yeah they're designed that way

But you're so wrapped up in her you don't see straight
watch her mangle the truth while you take the bait
So tell her can't you see? 
You're just turning yourself inside out for no need

This thing you're using is worse then a photograph
It picks you up and it turns you inside out now, baby
and it just won't let you go

But memories fade
Yeah they're designed that way

She doesn't love you anymore
Maybe she did long ago
You're just a slave to the grind that she grew tired of, baby
So tell her can't you see? 
You're just turning yourself inside out for no need

But memories fade
cause they're designed that way

She doesn't love you anymore
Maybe she did long ago
You're just a slave to the grind that she grew tired of, baby
So tell her can't you see? 
You're just turning yourself
you're just turning yourself inside out for no need

Mine (M)

I wait in the darkness
frozen winds surround my face
In the cover of darkness I can make believe it's you
I feel you like the rain 
I feel you like a storm cloud building in my heart
I wonder if you know the pain
to want the one thing you haven't got

Just a twist in time ....and you could be mine
Just a sip of wine ....and you could be mine
Just a kiss divine ....and you could be mine

A hand brushes by my love
A smile fuels a steel inferno
You don't have to die to leave my world
stand still and you've departed
It seems i'm not on your mind and I'm just wasting my time
I'm just a fool to believe
In the death of the night can you feel me inside
I wish that you could conceive... 

Just a twist in time ....and you could be mine
Just a sip of wine ....and you could be mine
Just a kiss divine ....and you could be mine

Won't you leave me in the darkness
take away the pride, all the dignity that's burning inside
Can't you see i'm standing naked
I'll bear all the crosses and the crucifixes you can provide
if you could decide

Just a twist in time
Just a sip of wine
Just a kiss divine

Just a twist in time ....and you could be mine
Just a sip of wine ....and you could be mine
Just a kiss divine ....and you could be mine 

Promises (P)

Well don't you know I need a little indulgence? 
Listen to the hunter becoming hunted 
Every day there's a million advances 
Don't be too forceful, you'll ruin your chances 
Well don't you know that time is a broken glass 
That splinters against the wall? 
But the picture is coming back now baby, 
And I want to take it all 

Don't go making all these promises you know 
you cannot keep 
There's a time to play a king and a time to be the thief 
'Cause if you're making all these promises you 
know you cannot keep 
You know time will be the thief and your fallen 
king will end up alone 

So let you're body move a little bit closer 
Silent like the sound proceeding a cyclone 
Don't you know that powerful thinking 
Can be a force you don't want to relinquish? 
Well don't you know that, 
They say that hanging on will justify the wait? 
But patience and elated wisdom don't share a 
common phrase 

Don't go making all these 
promises you know you cannot keep 
There's a time to play a king and a time to be a thief 
'Cause if you're making all these promises you 
know you cannot keep 
You know time will be the thief and your fallen 
king will end up alone 

Well, I'm only hanging on for what goes down 
I'm floating high and my feet don't touch the ground 
I'd take advantage but I can't see through this charade 
So don't you, don't go make it harder than hell 
'Cause when it comes down to the making 
You better be damned sure you can take it 

Hey baby 

Well dont go making all these promises you know you cannot keep 
There's a time to play a king and a time to be a thief 
'Cause if your making all these promises you know you cannot keep 
You know time will be the thief and your fallen king will end up alone 

Time will be the thief 
and your fallen king will end up... 
A fool, a fool, a lonely sorry fool 
Oh, baby, 'cause I told you baby  

Santa Monica (SM)

In Santa Monica, in the wintertime,
the lazy streets so undemanding
I walk into the crowd
In Santa Monica, you get your coffee from
the coolest places on the promenade
where people dress just so
Beauty so unavoidable, everywhere you turn
it's there.
I sit and wonder what am I doing here? 

But on the telephone line I am anyone
I am anything I want to be
I could be a super model or Norman Mailer
and you wouldn't know the difference
or would you? 

In Santa Monica, all the people got modern names
like Jake or Mandy
and modern bodies too
In Santa Monica, on the boulevard,
you'll have to dodge those in-line skaters
or they'll knock you down
I never felt so lonely,
never felt so out of place
I never wanted something more than this 

But on the telephone line I am anyone
I am anything I want to be
I could be a super model or Norman Mailer
and you wouldn't know the difference
On the telephone line, I am any height
I am any age I want to be
I could be a caped crusader, or space invader
and you wouldn't know the difference
or would you?

Tears of pearls (TOP)

And we stare each other down like victims in the grind 
probing all the weakness and hurt still left behind 
and we cry the tears of pearls 
We do it. 
Oh we do it. 
Is love really the tragedy the way you might describe? 
Or would a thousand lovers still leave you cold inside? 
Make you cry... these tears of pearls 
All these mixed emotions we keep 
locked away like stolen pearls 
Stolen pearls devotions we keep 
locked away from all the world 
Your kisses are like pearls, so different and so rare 
but anger stole the jewels away and love has 
left you bare,
made you cry... these tears of pearls 
Well I could be the tired joker pour my heart to get 
you in Sacrifice my happiness just so 
I could win
maybe cry... these tears of pearls 
All these mixed emotions we keep 
locked away like stolen pearls 
Stolen pearls devotions we keep 
locked away from all the world 

We twist and turn where angels burn 
like fallen soldiers we will learn 
That once forgotten, twice removed 
love will be the death... the death of you 
All these mixed emotions we keep 
locked away like stolen pearls 
Stolen pearls devotions we keep 
locked away from all the world

some of the lyrics could be incorrect... so please, don't take them as "official"!
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