Blue Flame — текст песни (Joe Jackson)

Ive got some walls around me, too

But theyre not much compared to your house

Fifty feet high, with barbed wire

Guards on the top, aiming rifles at your lovers one by one

And friends, too



Ive come with hands above my head

Im damned if Ill try to break your door down

If you ever come out just call me

Ill still be armed with the memory of one evening when you smiled

At something



Sadness spreads like a black stain

But I know by now thats not all there is



Theres a blue flame inside of you so beautiful and rare

And loves not something you decide to do

Youd be so hard to love if love was not just there



You tell me women get you down

And as for men, theyre all bastards

I wonder what world you call home

And I wish I could learn their language just enough to make you laugh

Just one time



Yes, it was nice to see you, too

Although Im never sure you mean it

I pick up the tab and you wont thank me

Not that I mind, but in my dreams its all so different - we even kiss

Imagine this



Bitterness is a black hole

But you know by now you got more to give



Theres a blue flame inside of you so beautiful and rare

And loves not something you decide to do

Youd be so hard to love if love was not just there



Impossible to love if love was not for some strange reason there