Tender is the Night - Bob Catley

Just like a celluloid dream

She burnt on acetate

Stealing every last scene

Just smouldering away

Tonight the radio has said

That now you’ve passed and gone

As something deep inside breaks

Your memory lingers on

The face of the century

This cruel, twisted destiny

A fatal intensity

That crossed beyond control

For what it appears to be

Is life taken needlessly

But how much you mean to me

God only knows

Tender is the night

I’m lost on the interstate

Tender is the dream

With nothing to say

Tendrils of light

Covered whimsical vanity

Render the white to grey

Tender is the night

And soft is the tourniquet

Tender is the theme

Of tears in the rain

Slender is the knife

On the wings of insanity

Taking your life away

They made a suicide claim

With no one else to blame

I know you must have cried out

For help that never came

On just how many broken dreams

You built your life upon

Remains a mystery

And now your suffering has gone

The face of the century

This beautiful entity

A fatal intensity

That crossed beyond control

For what it appears to be

Is life taken needlessly

But how much you mean to me

God only knows

Tender is the night

I’m lost on the interstate

Tender is the dream

With nothing to say

Tendrils of light

Covered whimsical vanity

Render the white to grey

Tender is the night

And soft is the tourniquet

Tender is the theme

Of tears in the rain

Slender is the knife

On the wings of insanity

Taking your life away

As cruel as love is

The face of the century

This cruel, twisted destiny

A fatal intensity

That crossed beyond control

For what it appears to be

Is life taken needlessly

But how much you mean to me

God only knows

Tender is the night

I’m lost on the interstate

Tender is the dream

With nothing to say

Tendrils of light

Covered whimsical vanity

Render the white to grey

Tender is the night

And soft is the tourniquet

Tender is the theme

Of tears in the rain

Slender is the knife

On the wings of insanity

Taking your life away

As cruel as love is