David Gates Mystery Of Love Lyrics

Mystery Of Love Lyrics

The city gates at twilight



And a red ship sinking



Behind winter's grey wall



Ice in the wind



But a fire in the embers



of my heart



As darkness falls



In a candlelit room



Where your eyes are laughing



Smoking in the red chair



And nothing in the world



'cept the beating of my heart



Against the nerves of the air







And I know there's a light



At the end of the tunnel



Cos I taste it on your lips



And I feel a weight



That can bear me double



You lift it with your fingertips



So often it happens



That words prove useless



In the face of how it feels



So it is as the mystery of love



keeps growing



The more my heart reveals







Temptations endless whispers



Try to keep it in perspective



So much to distract



Walking on a wire



While your juggling desire



It's all part of this balancing act



And it gets hard to know



Just what you believe



As the argument rages on



But for all of the talk



Its only true to say



That if you have no hope



There is none







A tangle of tongues



Flesh flowers and thistles



of conscience, spittle and skin



We can't change the past



So we'll raise this cup to our lips



And drink it all in



And meantime back in civilization



The rain is cold as steel



But the mystery of love



It just keep growing



The more my heart reveals







As sure as the rose



The bright day blooms



As surely still it fades



And the night kindles stars



On empty winds



And ghosts along the collonades



And slow but sure



the sands are falling



As the bridge burns



beneath the wheel



And the mystery of love



It just keeps growing



The more my heart reveals



The more my heart reveals