The Cure - Strange Attraction lyrics

It started with a dedication
Lost in admiration - happy birthday -
I'm forever yours - blossom
Faded red inside a tiny book of butterflies
I smiled surprised at how
When flickered through
The wings flew by spelled out my name
Six months went by the summer lost
Obsessively the letters dropped into my life
The same soft blood smooth flowing hand
"please try to understand - I have to
See you - have to feel you
Tell you all the ways I need
You - yours forever in love

Strange attraction spreads it's wings
It varies but the smallest things
You never know how anything will change
Strange attraction spreads it's wings
And alters but the smallest things
You never know how anything will fade

The year grew old incessantly she wrote to me
She'd started smoking poetry!
I laughed in recognition of a favorite phrase
She'd pulled me in i answered her
A Christmas card in sepia
Arranging when and where
And how the two of us should meet
Her opening so well prepared a nervous smile
I couldn't take my eyes from her
She whispered
"can I use some of your lipstick?"
It was perfect so believable
I couldn't help but feel that it was real
And kissing crimson fell into
Her waiting arms

Strange attraction spreads it's wings
It varies but the smallest things
You never know how anything will change
Strange attraction spreads it's wings
And alters but the smallest things
You never know how anything will fade

So alone into the cold new year
Without another word from her
I wrote to ask if we could
Maybe meet again before the spring
But weeks went by with no reply
Until once more my birthday came
And with it my surprise but this
Time nothing was the same
I'm sorry - blame infatuation
- blame imagination
I was sure you'd be the one but I was wrong
It seems reality destroys our dreams -
I won't forget you - blossom
Faded red inside a tiny book of old goodbyes

Strange attraction spreads it's wings
It varies but the smallest things
You never know how anything will change
Strange attraction spreads it's wings
And alters but the smallest things
You never know how anything will fade