Irish Lace - Eric Andersen

With your Irish gypsy face Your silver spoons

and your velvet razor blades oh lover

You pulled the wool right over my face

But didn’t it feel like Irish lace So many times

I wanted just to lay beside you So many times

you turned and rolled away Those times that

lovers make for sleeping If there were friends around

to keep you up you’d always slip away

Lonely but never quite alone

It’s amazing we could make it another day

I mistook your smile for love Believed my eyes

like the ones before that it really was Oh lover

you know you broke my heart in three

Once for you and once for the kid and the final time was me

Yes I’ve seen you while you’re sleeping

And I’ve seen your silent nights sometimes talking

but really never speaking It’s a wonder to me now

why anybody ever tries like a silence that keeps screamin all the time

It’s a wonder that we haven’t lost our minds

Once a lover thought the world of me She scared me

with her hatred but she wrote me poetry Oh lover

you took yourself so seriously Who’d ever believe you’d really leave

What a way to leave one more lover no one dared to save

A statistic who just left without a trace Too scared

to stick around and say But who always had enough

had enough to throw away Like a memento

from an attic from another time and place

Like a rag that once was made of Irish lace

Like a rag that was made of Irish lace

Like a rag that was made of Irish lace