{"id":115,"date":"2016-10-05T03:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/so-quietly-beside-you\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T03:40:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T02:40:00","slug":"so-quietly-beside-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/so-quietly-beside-you\/","title":{"rendered":"So Quietly Beside You"},"content":{"rendered":"

SO QUIETLY BESIDE YOU<\/span><\/b>
\n\u00a9Trev Teasdel Coventry November 1970<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nHere I am, sitting so quietly beside you.<\/span>
\nUncertainty clouds my mind.<\/span>
\nI like you, I like the gentle warmth<\/span>
\nof your form beside me.<\/span>
\nThe chilling whisper of your voice in my ear.<\/span>
\nBut I can’t think what to say.<\/span>
\nMy mind’s become a blank.<\/span>
\nThe thought of you fills my mind,<\/span>
\nand I throw dead end questions<\/span>
\nthat you answer then forget.<\/span>
\nYou seem to do the same.<\/span>
\nHow can conversation<\/span>
\nhope to burst forth.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nIt’s so silly sitting here like silent waters.<\/span>
\nWe could flow together if we tried.<\/span>
\nBut it’s so hard to draw back the veils<\/span>
\nof shyness and let the warmth of love flow forth.<\/span>
\nAnd still the trickle of nothing,<\/span>
\nfrom two tongues that are tied.<\/span>
\nWe mention things that have no scope for conversation<\/span>
\nPersonal questions that sound like prying.<\/span>
\nAn hour of nervous coughs<\/span>
\nand polite laughter to ‘Break the silence jokes’<\/i><\/span>
\nwhich have no significance at all.<\/span>
\nThe odd glances and smiles which say<\/span>
\n“I’d like to get to know you better but it’s so hard to think of things to say.<\/i>“<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nSo then I asked you to accompany me,<\/span>
\ndown through the corridors to the concert hall,<\/span>
\nwhere the group was exploding in a maze of freaking hair,<\/span>
\na darkened hall with flashing lights and sounds<\/span>
\nthat leaves you senseless in a world of inhibitions.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nI put my arms around,<\/span>
\nlike a cushion soft and warm.<\/span>
\nThe barriers still trembling<\/span>
\nbut slowly yielded to our desires.<\/span>
\nWe kiss away our nervousness<\/span>
\nand dance ’til shattered we become<\/span>
\nI walked you home that night<\/span>
\nand we danced our dreams on ice.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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