Story Behind The Song
Personal Divorce Experiance and feelings of guilt.
A base player in my band was playing a key riff that was the catalyat to this song
Song Description
Couple that realizes that love has vanished and that they are planets away from ever coming together
| Song Length |
4:22 |
Genre |
R & B - Classic, R & B - Soul |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Gloomy, Diplomatic |
Subject |
Heartbreak, Sorrow |
| Similar Artists |
Jeffrey Osborne, Robert Cray |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1970 - 1979 |
| |
Lyrics
Venus and Mars (draft 03/17/03) R & B Funk Category
Lyrics O. Quinones
It was late September when I thought I would die
When we gave back rings and said our final goodbyes
And it rained with tears of compassion and pain
When you moved away from home it was certain
Our Broadway play came to a final curtain
The love show was all over
There's no one left but two battered souls
Transition
What once was an elegant flower
That flourished through all the spring showers
seemed to dry up and wilt away
And if we think our lives would be better
We could be fooling ourselves cause the weather
Might still be raining and raining till we find out
(chorus)
Why are we always stuck in the middle
Between Venus and Mars with so little time on Earth
For one another
We're always dancing around in circles
I got the blues and you paint the Purple sky's
above us
(Verse2)
Photographs of how our lives use to be
Still glean through all of our history
And those dreams that did come true
Now we find ourselves in the firing lines
If we look back now
We were out of our minds
Because we vanished and never made it through
Transition
If we greet one more chance, I'd aspire
To rekindle the flames of that fire
That burned with love, respect and desire
And if we think our lives would be better
We could be fooling ourselves cause the weather
Might still be raining and raining till we find out
(chorus)
Why are we always stuck in the middle
Between Venus and Mars with so little time on Earth
For one another
We're always dancing around in circles
I got the blues and you paint the Purple sky's
above us (REPEAT ½ OF CHORUS)
If we could both look into the mirror
And ask the man upstairs to re-deliver
What we once had that kept us holding on, holding on........
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