Steve Hogarth & Richard Barbieri - Your Beautiful Face

YOUR BEAUTIFUL FACE

I remember your beautiful face
How it sped up clocks
Stopped hearts
And set pulses racing

I remember your beautiful face
You run your toe upwards along my shin under the table
Playfully little fires, panic, and dilemmas
Battle-bright

But there was steel behind your eyes
Forged from cunning in your heart
In your heart
And dark ambition in your mind

I remember your beautiful face
Appearing suddenly in my bedroom in the afternoon
As the boy inside me hurried to tear off your clothes
Whilst the man inside me tore over the fields after showing you,
politely, to the door

You had the measure of your beautiful face
A perfect tool for getting what you want
You had the measure of your beautiful face
And you wanted so much, didn't you babe?

I had the measure of your beautiful face
I knew you were trouble
You were trouble
It takes one to know one
But I was not immune
And I slipped myself away, just in time
As the jackboot slammed down

Takes one to know me..

Your beautiful face has aged
Lost it's power
You must have known it wouldn't last forever
I see it in your daughter
She's a softer soul
I guess it's not the weapon that does the damage
But in who's hands it rests

The world's a safer place ..without
Your Beautiful Face