The Beauty In Your Body - The Lilac Time

And although nobody touches

Your mind is ragged for riches

Each picture needs its hinges

To swing on when you open

The door snores in a door frame

You’re framed by occupation

You want the feathers from the duck’s back

Like you need a suit of armour

There’s beauty in your body

But you can’t see it and don’t feel it And you’re looking for something

That people can see in you

And who knows what they’re seeing

Without even looking

With forests disappearing

And heavens getting closer

And we aren’t even looking

No wonder you don’t know

There’s beauty in your body

But you can’t see it and don’t feel it And on the streets of Aston

Two lovers slowly walking

From cinema to station

A crusade amongst concrete

Jacob and the angel

The lift doors close behind them

And after love like combat

They step into the shower

There’s beauty in your body

But you can’t see it and don’t feel it You don’t feel good

Like I know you should

Baby it’s you

It’s up to you

As I began to tell you

I saw your eyes glaze over

Like ice across an ocean

Or skaters on a fruit cake

Do you remember childhood?

Did you ever feel good?

If only you could thaw out

The ice age that you live in There’s beauty in your body

But you can’t see it and don’t feel it