David Gates - Mystery of Love lyrics

The city gates at twilight And a red ship sinking Behind winter's grey wall Ice in the wind But a fire in the embers of my heart As darkness falls In a candlelit room Where your eyes are laughing Smoking in the red chair And nothing in the world 'cept the beating of my heart Against the nerves of the air And I know there's a light At the end of the tunnel Cos I taste it on your lips And I feel a weight That can bear me double You lift it with your fingertips So often it happens That words prove useless In the face of how it feels So it is as the mystery of love keeps growing The more my heart reveals Temptations endless whispers Try to keep it in perspective So much to distract Walking on a wire While your juggling desire It's all part of this balancing act And it gets hard to know Just what you believe As the argument rages on But for all of the talk Its only true to say That if you have no hope There is none A tangle of tongues Flesh flowers and thistles of conscience, spittle and skin We can't change the past So we'll raise this cup to our lips And drink it all in And meantime back in civilization The rain is cold as steel But the mystery of love It just keep growing The more my heart reveals