Beautiful Is (As Beautiful Does) - The Blue Aeroplanes

Hey you is something I have to say

I see as close and golden

And love is something I have to say

Is in the eyes of the beholden

I stand here and you stand there

I can hear a siren in the air

& beautiful is

As beautiful does

& beautiful does

Everything

Here’s a gift, it was given to me

I carry it round continually

A flower, a record, a counterfoil

Three tons of petals make a litre of oil

& beautiful is

As beautiful does

& beautiful does

Everything

Looking round for a circus girl

With a black and white halo

Found in a foreign hotel

Looking for a kid of her own

Foundered in the spin of a different view

A different gravity, an independent state

What have you lived through?

What do you want to recreate?

A book of worlds

Or a book of lies?

The world is an oval

With oval eyes

Beauty is everything, beauty is love

Beauty can die outside a nightclub

Yeah suki, suki, what d’you want me to do?

Float downstream like a phoenix do

& beautiful is

As beautiful does

& beautiful does

Everything

Love always

Wears my shirt or did

Love always

Waits till home to phone

Love always

Likes to wait alone

Love always

Learns a new desire

Love always

Is a little liar

Love always

Bites here lip to write

Love always

Gets more hip and departs

Uh-huh