Name: AOS 20 Love is Sweet Poison
Duration: 3 min 6 s
Channel: martin stirrup
Description: Free MP3 download. a bit classical-ish!

AOS 20 Love is Sweet Poison

martin stirrup

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Free download

a bit classical-ish!

love absolute

martin stirrup

Singer-songwriter, arranger and producer: acoustic contemporary folk but ranging into rock/blues/country/jazz/humour...all very eclectic, I'm afraid!

Martin Stirrup Singer/songwriter An old folkie who got back into it... These days I sing and play guitar(s) and other stringed instruments, then score and orchestrate where appropriate. My taste becomes increasingly eclectic ranging from finger-picked folk through country to soft rock mixed in with a few more alternative and eccentric numbers, including the odd novelty foxtrot...

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic General

Charts

Peak #128

Peak in subgenre #35

Author

martin stirrup

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martin stirrup

Uploaded

April 06, 2021

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MP3

MP3 7.1 MB • 320 kbps • 3:06

Lossless

WAV 31.3 MB

Story behind the song

Sheila saw 'love is poison' on a car sticker in India and asked what it was supposed to mean. Here's my attempt at an answer, written (as so many of these songs) in the back of a car driving through the foothills of the Himalayas...

Lyrics

AOS 20 Love is sweet poison

Am   F              C
Love is sweet poison
          F        C     G7           Am
Each flowering must prelude an ego's demise
Am   F              C
Love is sweet poison
              F               C                      G7                  Am
As the fast rising sun sweeps the moon from the skies.
           F          C                      G7                  Am
For one to arise then the other must falter
           F          C                 G7        Am
For one to arise so the other decline
           F          C                G7        Am
As cupid lets fly so perception will alter
    Dm7              G7                
Thoughts once so random slip slowly in line
Am   F               C
Love is sweet poison

Love is sweet poison
A moment's collision can erase the past
Love is sweet poison
No fear of derision the die has been cast
Coded by helix pretention it smashes
Singing its song to some primordial air
To rise like the phoenix away from the ashes
Off into heaven knows where 
Love is sweet poison

Love is a sweet poison
Murders duty caste and creed
Love is a sweet poison
True love forever will never concede
For Love is sweet poison two lovers ascending
No longer the people they thought they would be
Their lives as they grow on increasingly blending
Exposed for the whole word to see.
Love is a sweet poison

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