COLDER THAN LOVE

I remember

I remember

Charing Cross Station and Turkish Delight

Watching her eyes to gain an insight

The clink of the glasses as the guard's whistle blows

Sexual tension and the squawk of the crows

That November

That November

Ice on the window as her train left on time

She faded away from the scene of her crime

I was led off in handcuffs protesting a lie

I could have betrayed her but I'd rather die

Three years gone I'm back on the street

She paid me as promised but I'm still incomplete

What is this madness that's driving my car

My eyes of desire rake every bar

She's waiting

Intoxicating

Black lace and leather in a forgotten hotel

I cannot buy what she refuses to sell

Lust for the money took my life away

Love for a honey I refused to betray

I scream at the stars and howl at the night

She's blacker than black and I'm whiter than white

Three years of waiting and I'll wait no more

I'll break down her walls

Smash down her door

It's colder than love when it gets like this

It's colder than love when I burn for her kiss

It's ice and it's fire

It's lust and desire

It's all that I am every step of my path

No smile in my words

No joy in my laugh

This is the heat

And it's colder than love

Colder than love

No surrender

I'll defend her

She's elusive and cruel and satanically real

All of my glory her headlines will steal

A cloud of suspicion descends here again

I'm unable to answer the who or the when

They won't catch me this time

(I'll escape their net)

I'm not guilty of this crime

(And my hunt's not over yet)

But now as the blue light gets closer again

I am the one who will pay in the end

There's just one more stairway I need to climb

Before they catch me and take me and make me bleed for her crime

It's colder than love when I cry out her name

It's colder than love when I'm caught in her game

It's ringside at showtime

Murder but no crime

It defines what I am in one photograph

Avarice and sex in a Charing Cross caff

It just repeats

And it's colder than love

Colder than love

I see her face in the white of the fire

When she laughs at me I know she can't hear my screams

She is the truth and I am the liar

I'm the ghost in her memory and a spectator in dreams

It's colder than love and it's freezing my soul

It's colder than love and I'm out of control

Like an eclipse of the sunlight

It tears out my eyesight

It's the road I have travelled in one epitaph

She's forever naked and her lips seem to laugh:

“This is so sweet

And it's colder than love

Colder than love"