{"id":7242,"date":"2017-08-17T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/?p=7242"},"modified":"2025-07-09T05:34:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T05:34:43","slug":"tales-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/?p=7242","title":{"rendered":"Tales Of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tales Of Love\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CdUzcLohTYo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not certain of the date on this one &#8211; mid 90s I think. It&#8217;s about a relationship ending that was just SO disappointing &#8211; I was as puzzled and dazed as I was hurt. This song came a couple of years after the event, and although it sounds like I was feeling very cynical and bitter, all I remember was what a good time I had writing and recording this! It pulled together events from 1991 (Exeter) and 1977 (Johannesburg) and playing it back now serves as a good reminder of both of those times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every word of this is true, in its own way \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I saw you when I first came down to Exeter<br>You stood so tall I thought you were my prince<br>We could fight off Hurricane Hugo so I thought<br>But the hurricane came and I haven&#8217;t seen you since<br>Tales of love, tales of woe<br>Tales of &#8220;will he?&#8221; &#8220;won&#8217;t he?&#8221;, tales of told you so<br>Tales of &#8220;yes&#8221;, tales of &#8220;no&#8221;<br>Tales I can&#8217;t stop telling since you chose to go<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But those heads keep on rolling, rolling<br>I consult the i-ching<br>It says: &#8220;be like some bamboo by the water&#8221;<br>Well the only bamboo I have got is holding up my cheeseplant<br>So heads will roll if I ever catch up with you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And suddenly, I realised you reminded me of someone<br>Someone I met when I was just eighteen<br>Someone I ment on a dusty road in Africa<br>He took me home and filled me with his dreams<br>Tales of drugs, tales of sex<br>In our Jo&#8217;burg squat we listened to Tyrannosaurus Rex<br>David Bowie, Elton John, ooh, we couldn&#8217;t last too long<br>Too much fighting with the boys in discotheques<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it was always on the cards that I&#8217;d fall in love with you<br>When the Tarot said that lightning struck my tower<br>And it was always on the cards that before long we&#8217;d be through<br>All dried up like a lonely winter flower<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were stars in our eyes as we compared our transits<br>Pluto in conjunction with the sun<br>Yes there were stars in your eyes as you crawled back to your bedsit<br>Back to where you&#8217;d thought you&#8217;d have more fun<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The day you left you said to me there&#8217;s nothing more to say<br>Well I have to say I don&#8217;t that is true<br>Words may not be adequate to explain the way I feel<br>But there&#8217;s one or two things I like to say to you<br>Words of war, words of hate<br>They&#8217;re the only words that you appreciate<br>So I ungrit my teeth, and I unbite my tongue<br>And I speak my mind before it is too late<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there was poison in the tea leaves when you walked out my door<br>So I threw away the cup you used to drink from<br>And now the herbal rememdies that I brew up in my kitchen<br>Are all in little bags &#8211; no leaves, no mess, no more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I saw you when I first came down to Exeter<br>You stood so tall I thought you were my prince<br>We could fight off Hurricane Hugo so I thought<br>But the hurricane came and I haven&#8217;t seen you since<br>But the hurricane came and I haven&#8217;t seen you since<br>Yes the hurricane came &#8211; I haven&#8217;t seen you since<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not certain of the date on this one &#8211; mid 90s I think. 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