LGT - Fed up with All Your Fancy Phrases

Forget the past, it’s dead and gone
The long run is much too long, forget the future
Forget the stars that never shone
Shone only in your dreams
Forget your schemes ‘cos life is real
It wouldn’t do to wheeler-deal

Forget the victories we won
Forget the shiny deeds we done, in the name of no-one
Forget all the heroes you once revered
Forget all the devils and idols you feared
Forget your ideals, forget all your promises

Fed up with all your fancy phrases
Love me with more affection
Fed up with all your fancy phrases
Love me with more affection

Forget the words that spring to mind
Sometimes you gotta suffer cruelty to be kind
Present and past run into one
One sad continuum
Time after time you’ve helped me see
But words alone can’t comfort me

Fed up with all your fancy phrases
Love me with more affection
Fed up with all your fancy phrases
Love me with more affection

Hide my face in hollow hands
Escape to perfumed gardens in oriental lands
In vain do I teach you in song and in verse
In vain do I cry out a blasphemous curse
I’m trying, I’m trying to blast you to kingdom come

Fed up with all your fancy phrases
Love me with more affection
Fed up with all your fancy phrases
Love me with more affection