Lyrics Graham Parker

Graham Parker

Love or Delusion

I was right there near the goal

In the information flow

Where strange things come and go

From despair to ecstatic glow

Where the flesh meets the dust

But there's nothing there to trust

Where the rhythms pulse and bind

Where the human heart takes over the mind

And the sky's only blue

If you think it is

And you think that's true

But you don't get to choose

Between love or delusion

I was right there in your bed

But I could not get in your head

No I could not penetrate

I unlocked the code too late

From the zeros to the ones

In between those complicated sums

In a system so advanced

That it runs on blood

And it works by chance

But the sea's only blue

If you think it is

And you think that's true

But you don't get to choose with

Love or delusion

Well i've smelled your hair

And i've kissed your lips

Felt the touch of your fingertips

But the sky was only blue

When it looked that way

And I wanted it to

I was out of my head

Between the living and the dead

Where the stars don't align

In a paradox of time

From the zeros to the ones

In between those complicated sums

In a system so advanced

That it runs on blood

And it works by chance

But the sky's only blue if you think it is

And you think that's true

And the sea's only green

In a certain light that you think you've seen

And you don't get to choose

Between love or delusion