Love Song

from Live And Let Live - 2021 by Twelfth Night

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The whole 15-track show from Geoff's farewell gigs at The Marquee, London - November 1983. Remastered and lovingly compiled, and presented with a lavish 24-page full colour booklet with brand new artwork, sleeve-notes and photos. This is the brand-new 2021 version, repressed in June with new cover and disc artwork.

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Love Song

Brian Devoil: “I asked Geoff if he could write something with more positive lyrics in order to provide an uplifting close to the Fact And Fiction album. The result was Love Song.”

Clive Mitten: “Love Song took as long to write as it takes to play. I was showing Geoff how to move fingers on a keyboard to progress between related chords, and how easy it can be to go between notes, when the chord sequence for Love Song emerged, complete. We thought ‘oh, that’s nice’ and Geoff went off to write some words to go with the music. It’s a coda to the rest of the album and stands alone from the messages inherent within the other songs. It’s a statement that we’ve gone on this journey from We Are Sane to Creepshow and that there is life beyond.”

Jane Mann: “Two of Geoff’s greatest phrases appear in this song; ‘skittering wind-blown leaves’ and ‘take a tip from the Carpenter, forgive and love again...and again’ … the latter clearly stating Geoff’s by then very strong Christian faith. It’s still an epic. Hope springs eternal...”

Andy Revell: “Love Song is the light at the end of the tunnel.”

lyrics

Everybody has wisdom, everyone understands
Food when we are hungry, the touch of loving hands
No one is anyone's property, no one should be a slave
The joining of hearts in free will, begins a tidal wave

Don't hold back, don't think that hope is pointless
Love is a, love is a, love is a, love is an open door
Don't believe that life is closed against us
Love is a, love is a, love is a, love is an open door

And it doesn't make any difference, the colour of anyone's skin
We need the rejection of prejudice, let peace come flooding in
Jealousy is just a parasite, hatred is disease
Respect for human dignity, become skittering wind blown leaves

(Chorus)

The time is surely coming when we could all be free
When eyes for so long blinded, in opening shall see
That children may grow happily safe in the love of all
The earth a fertile garden where nobody need crawl

(Chorus)

Love is a, love is a, love is an open door

And if it seems that your hoping heart has led you into pain
Take a tip from the carpenter forgive and love again
And again

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from Live And Let Live - 2021, released November 5, 1983
Geoff Mann: vocals, Andy Revell: guitar, Clive Mitten: bass, Rick Battersby: keyboards, Brian Devoil: drums

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Twelfth Night are an English progressive rock band of the 1980s, reformed between 2007 and 2012 and again in 2014.

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