Roxy Music - Mother of Pearl lyrics

Turn the lights down (Way down low)
Turn up the music (Hi as fi can go)
All the gang's here (Everyone you know)
Its a crazy scene
(Hey there, just look over your shoulder)
Get the picture? No, no, no, no (Yes)

Walk a tightrope (Your life sign line)
Such a bright hope (Right place, right time)
What´s your number? (Never you mind)
Take a powder (But hang on a minute
What´s coming round the corner?)
Have you a future? No, no, no, no (Yes)
Well I've been up all night again
Party time wasting it's too much fun
Then I step back thinking
Of life's inner meaning and my latest fling

It's the same old story all love and glory
It's a pantomime if you're looking for love
In a looking glass world
It's pretty hard to find oh Mother of Pearl
I wouldn't trade you for another girl

Divine intervention always my intention
So I take my time
I've been looking for something
I've always wanted but was never mine
But now I've seen that something
Just out of reach, glowing very holy grail
Oh Mother of Pearl
Lustrous lady of a sacred world

Thus even Zarathustra another time loser
Could believe in you
With every goddess a let down
Every idol a bring down it gets you down
But the search for perfection
Your own predilection
Goes on, and on, and on, and on

Canadian club love a place in the country
Everyone's ideal but, you are my favorita
And a place in your heart, dear
Makes me feel more real oh Mother of Pearl
I wouldn't change you for the whole world

You're highbrow, holy with lots of soul
Melancholy, shimmering serpentine sleekness
Was always my weakness like a simple tune
But no dilettante filigree fancy
Beats the plastic you career girl cover
Exposed and another slips right into view
Oh, looking for love
In a looking glass world
Is pretty hard for you

Few throwaway kisses the boomerang misses
Spin round and round
Fall on featherbed quilted faced with silk
Softly stuffed, eider down

Take refuge in pleasure
Just give me your future
We'll forget your past oh Mother of Pearl
Submarine lover in a shrinking world
Oh lonely dreamer
Your choker provokes a picture cameo
Oh Mother of Pearl
So so semi-precious in your detached world
Oh Mother of Pearl
I wouldn't trade you for another girl