Love Is Swift Arrows

by Be-Bop Deluxe

From the album: Axe Victim

Track 2 of 38 on Axe Victim (1974).

Duration: 4:13

Axe Victim cover art

Lyrics for Love Is Swift Arrows

Nelson Room in the east invested with meanings, Open to none but the strange and the wild Sunset encounters with destiny's chances, Envelopes marked for the personal life Night falling, hiding the poets transgression, Blown in the winds of aquarian tides Echoed words spoken by token romantics Rock 'n roll supermen, Ghosts of new vice. Making love in strange autos whilst lifes ink sings always That love is swift arrows my dear Oh, God in some heaven whose number is seventeen Dressed you in blue jeans this year To torment my soul Oh, leave me alone... Rules to be broken by reckless and young men, Odes to be written by passions sick hand Seeds to be sown on the rich fields of promise, Ends and beginnings that never quite meet Nothing of value that hasn't yet vanished, Brown-eyed and wise as the feminine fates Evening's sweet menace, revealing, inviting, Highways to paradise Grey lines of grace. Making love in strange autos whilst lifes ink sings always That love is swift arrows my dear Oh, God in some heaven whose number is seventeen Dressed you in blue jeans this year To torment my soul Oh, leave me alone...

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  5. Night Creatures
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  7. Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape
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  13. No Trains To Heaven - First Mix
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  16. Love Is Swift Arrows
  17. Jet Silver And The Dolls Of Venus
  18. Third Floor Heaven
  19. Night Creatures
  20. Rocket Cathedrals
  21. Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape
  22. Jets At Dawn
  23. No Trains To Heaven
  24. Darkness (L'Immoraliste)
  25. Axe Victim - First Version
  26. Night Creatures - Spoken Word Version
  27. Rocket Cathedrals - First Version
  28. Axe Victim - BBC Radio 1 John Peel, 27 November 1973
  29. Bluesy Ruby - BBC Radio 1 John Peel, 27 November 1973
  30. Tomorrow The World - BBC Radio 1 John Peel, 27 November 1973
  31. Axe Victim - Audition Session For Decca Records
  32. I'll Be Your Vampire - Audition Session For Decca Records
  33. Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape - Audition Session For Decca Records
  34. Bluesy Ruby - Audition Session For Decca Records
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  36. Mill Street Junction - BBC Radio 1 John Peel, 23 May 1974
  37. 15th Of July (Invisibles) - BBC Radio 1 John Peel, 23 May 1974
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