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It started with a dedication
"Lost in admiration - happy birthday - I'm forever yours - Blossom"
Faded red inside a tiny book of butterflies
I smiled, surprised at how when flickered through
The wings flew by spelled out my name
Six months went by, the summer lost
Obsessively the letters dropped into my life
The same soft, blood, smooth flowing hand
"Please try to understand: I have to see you, have to feel you
Tell you all the ways I need you; yours forever in love..."
[Chorus]
Strange attraction spreads it's wings
It varies but the smallest things
You never know how anything will change
Strange attraction spreads it's wings
And alters but the smallest things
You never know how anything will fade
The year grew old, incessantly she wrote to me
She'd started smoking poetry!
I laughed in recognition of a favorite phrase
She'd pulled me in
I answered her
A Christmas card, in sepia
Arranging when and where
And how the two of us should meet
Her opening so well prepared
A nervous smile
I couldn't take my eyes from her
She whispered
"Can I use some of your lipstick?"
It was perfect, so believable
I couldn't help but feel that it was real
And kissing crimson fell into her waiting arms
[Chorus]
So alone into the cold; new year without another word from her
I wrote to ask if we could maybe meet again before the spring
But weeks went by with no reply until once more my birthday came
And with it my surprise, but this time nothing was the same
"I'm sorry - blame infatuation - blame imagination
I was sure you'd be the one, but I was wrong
It seems reality destroys our dreams - I won't forget you - Blossom"
Faded red inside a tiny book of old goodbyes
Strange attraction spreads it's wings
It varies but the smallest things
You never know how anything will change
Strange attraction spreads it's wings
And alters but the smallest things
And you never know
"Lost in admiration - happy birthday - I'm forever yours - Blossom"
Faded red inside a tiny book of butterflies
I smiled, surprised at how when flickered through
The wings flew by spelled out my name
Six months went by, the summer lost
Obsessively the letters dropped into my life
The same soft, blood, smooth flowing hand
"Please try to understand: I have to see you, have to feel you
Tell you all the ways I need you; yours forever in love..."
[Chorus]
Strange attraction spreads it's wings
It varies but the smallest things
You never know how anything will change
Strange attraction spreads it's wings
And alters but the smallest things
You never know how anything will fade
The year grew old, incessantly she wrote to me
She'd started smoking poetry!
I laughed in recognition of a favorite phrase
She'd pulled me in
I answered her
A Christmas card, in sepia
Arranging when and where
And how the two of us should meet
Her opening so well prepared
A nervous smile
I couldn't take my eyes from her
She whispered
"Can I use some of your lipstick?"
It was perfect, so believable
I couldn't help but feel that it was real
And kissing crimson fell into her waiting arms
[Chorus]
So alone into the cold; new year without another word from her
I wrote to ask if we could maybe meet again before the spring
But weeks went by with no reply until once more my birthday came
And with it my surprise, but this time nothing was the same
"I'm sorry - blame infatuation - blame imagination
I was sure you'd be the one, but I was wrong
It seems reality destroys our dreams - I won't forget you - Blossom"
Faded red inside a tiny book of old goodbyes
Strange attraction spreads it's wings
It varies but the smallest things
You never know how anything will change
Strange attraction spreads it's wings
And alters but the smallest things
And you never know
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Possible the most adorable, cutest, perfect way of asking for a kiss.
I think this songs about two people, who have never met.
Though they're writing to each other. And they start to fall for each other and decide they MUST meet.
And the day they do, is so unbelievable and perfect. And he falls for her so much more.
But she goes home and thinks she's crazy and it'll never work.
So stops replying to his letters and moves on, though she'll never forget him.
Possibly because what they had for that short time was unlike anything she'd ever experienced.
And 'She'd started smoking poetry!'
I don't think is about drugs, It actually could be about poetry.
She's read some of his favorite stuff and quoted it.
And he laughed at the recognition of it.
strange attraction?
right
I think "smoking poetry" meant she was reading and quoting it like an addiction. I love the line about sharing lipstick. What a cute way of asking for a kiss.
I think its about a girl who was obsessed with Robert and was writing letters to him all the time and then he went to meet her and became obsessed with her too but she realized that itd never work
Does "SHE'D STARTED SMOKING POETRY!" mean that she smoked crack/pot/hash? Cause on Pornography Rob was on lots of drugs and wrote a very good album, so maybe poetry is = drugs. Kinda can't explain it, but thats what i think :)