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Michael Franks – Sleeping Gypsy (Warner Bros. Records, US, 1977)

Bass – Wilton Felder
Drums – John Guerin (tracks: A1 to A3, B1 to B3), Joao Palma (tracks: A4, B4)
Guitar – Helio Delmiro* (tracks: A4, B4), Larry Carlton
Percussion – Ray Armando (tracks: A1, A3, A4, B2, B4)
Performer – Larry Bunker
Piano – Joe Sample (tracks: A1 to A3, B1 to B3), Joao Donato* (tracks: A4, B4)

In your abandoned garden, sunlight still prevails:
The jasmine climbs the trellis fragrantly, the
jacaranda ultravioletly sways.
The blossom. each of them by your hand planted,
Will, even if I tell them of your sudden
Disappearance from us,
Not believe the tale.

When I'm alone at night all I do is think about you
Especially when I'm blue I just can't do without
I love the way you shiver my timbers
I need you here to keep myself limber
When I'm alone
I contemplate every way I'd like to rendez-vous you
I only hope s'il-vous plait you can respondez-vous
Your amplifier's already preset

Inside my dream
I hear the jungle parrots scream
Just me and you
Alone in our dugout canoe
We kiss
The snakes hiss
We drift on
Amazon

Barefoot on the beach
Warmed by the subtropic sun
Easily seduced - I'm in
Safely out of reach
From faxes and the telephone
I get happy when
A dolphin joins me for a swim

Ev'ryone sings, "Home of the brave
And land of the free"
You've had twenty wins and one save,
Now you're up against me
How can I keep control of my nerves?
The way you wind-up
When you throw me those curves?
I hear him yell, "strike"

By day
He's a grease monkey it's true
A slave
Fix your transmission like new
Change oil
Rotate your tires of course
He toils
Under the Flying Red Horse

Whenever I explore the land of Yen
I always take one on the chin
And now this lioness has almost made me tame.
I can't pronounce her name but
Eggplant is her game.

The lady sticks to me like white on rice.
She never cooks the same way twice.

There isn’t any part of me she does not know
We’ve been together ‘bout a thousand years or so
Still almost instantly my love begins to show
Every time she whispers

It makes no difference if I’m upon my luck
When she invites me in my gloom becomes unstuck
I feel the barriers around me deconstruct

Hourglass, remember how
I said I'd miss you?
I confess I lied:
Hourglass, I couldn't live without you
If I tried, which I
Do not intend to ever try
My Hourglass, your sensual geography
I live just to explore

If it's true from the start
That the names of those we love
Are written on our hearts
And we search 'til we find
In this jungle of Confusion
Something that reminds us
How we love each other
Then I think I've found the clue

I love lucy and she loves me
We're as happy as two can be
We have our quarrel bue then
Girl, how we love making up again

Lucy kisses like know one can
She's my misses and I'm her man
And life is heaven you see

When you meet someone who inspires your worst angry voice
Just retreat-happiness is always a much better choice
Why chargin?
If you're in-
Sisting on the last word
It's quite over-rated
Like our mothers taught:
Unkind words we just ought not to

Summer retreats now
Green kingdom's end
Why can't I make
Time suspend?

The hummingbird would hover by me
And never fly away
If only I could

No one here
Venus and Mars
And a skyful of stars
It's been a slo-mo year
A few stolen kisses
And several near misses
I wait (wish my mission was clearer)
For the cherub's arrow

Remember, when your kite hits the ground
And your smile turns upside down
It's only going on inside you
Whenever the libretto won't do
And all the notes become too blue
Remember there's a song inside you

Cara Mia, if you're ever lost at sea

Brush every night
Don't let the bedbugs bite
(The ones I'm referring to)
Though I'll be gone I'll be
Keeping my eye on you

Don't stay out late
Stay home and cogitate

Here we are again
That fatal combination
I guess it's opposite attraction
It's gone too far again
This crazy conversation
It's like a nuclear reaction
Lady your lip service has no rival
Don't you know deception is uncouth?

So empty like sky
Without any sun
Lotus Blossom, don't cry
You and I were meant to be one
And though we're apart
It won't be for long
I come to you
In my song

Misterioso how I met you
Was it the Honolulu night?
Stars so bright, sea so blue
Down on Waikiki,
with my arms around you
With my arms around you

One thing's for sure I've been loving you more and more

Mice

How come the mice
All the cute ones with their furry little suits on
The gals and misters with the pretty little whiskers
All want to stay?
What's with the mice
Are they Catholic with those families?

Love has locked us up, peaches,
Locked inside this zoo,
Your bananas get thrown at me
And mine get thrown at you.
Ev'ry night we fuss and fight
Like me and you know who,
I guess love is always just:

We touched like watercolour fawns
In landscapes painted by Cezanne
Like lovers floating painted by Chegall
But you and I were you-I then
We thought the rush would never end
We thought the sky, the sky would never fall

Chorus

Kid inside a candy store
Sensation
Temptation
Always gotta have some more
You love that sticky stuff
Ain't no way you're lettin' go
You tease me
You squeeze me

As a kid my nose would be
Inside a book of poetry
I memorized the movies where
Into each other's eyes the lovers stare
i.e. Zhivago with his Lara in their cottage
In the snow

Ten below with only love to keep the warm

I was just a stand-in
Someone love abandoned - not the leading man
But my heart yelled "Action"
What does "fall in love" mean?
We rehearsed the Love Scene unaware of this
Till we tried The Kiss and
Now... now you're in my dreams
Love was such a mystery

Lost my way again
And it wasn't hard to do
When I'm away from you
It seems the meaning runs out of my life

Swept away again
Like a sailor tossed on the tide
How much longer can I hide

And when God gave out rythm
He sure was good to you.
You can add, subtract, multiply and divide...
By two.

I know today's your birthday,
And I did not buy no rose.
But I wrote this song instead and I call it,

Seventh of September
Remember when
We met at the shrine
Your kimono looked so fine
Temple dancers swaying
Flutes playing then
I was yours and you were mine
Paul Desmond on the stereo

Ran to Penn Station and mad my train
Immediately fell asleep until I heard
The conductor say: "Next stop
Where-it's-Atsville."
Sunlight on the Hudson an amber glow
Like "Crepuscule with Nellie" dialed
down low
When I reached my stop

All our lives
Searching for the secret of joy
Each time we think we find the way
Confusion leads us astray

Love arrives
At the very moment we cry
For someone to be our heart's home

Why can't we free the love inside us?
Those inhibitions which divide us
Is it naive of me to seek such ecstasy?
I crave the chemistry of love.

Let's build the Taj Mahal of pleasure
Follow the blue print to those treasures
A formula aside should help us

The critics are never kind
they thrive on the negative
they seldom give
Their praise or their thanks
and their word is sacrosanct
The critics are always blind
deaf and dumb when it comes to change
Their feeble brains cannot penetrate

My purring Bavarian machine
Required a drink of gasoline
I swerved to a city names St. Augustine
In Upper Florine

I drove through the town and quite
by chance
Hooked up with a lady circumstance

Whenever I am lost at sea
I remember you are here with me
You surrender to the fantasy
When I give my love to you
Running from the hurricane
Helter-skelter in the wind and rain
I find shelter, I find peace again
When I give my love to you

Lovers from Shakespeare come to mind
The "parting is such sweet"
"Wherefore art thou" kind
Shattered illusions, sad conclusions
When I think of us
Love called the shots and we believed
We gave new meaning to the word "naive"
Can't comprehend the logic of love

Flirting with temptation
Falling helplessly
From the moment I saw you
I new that
You were meant for me

All those years to find you
Love's telepathy

Lost your toy lover boy
In the river take a look
You're much older now
You used to be 23
Suddenly the summer ends
And you don't know how
It was in this fun hit and run
Sweeter was your lemonade,