GORDON LIGHTFOOT - Affair On 8th Avenue lyrics

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The perfume that she wore was from some little store<br>On the down side of town<br>But it lingered on long after she'd gone<br>I remember it well<br>And our fingers entwined like ribbons of light<br>And we came through a doorway somewhere in the night<br>Her long flowing hair came softly undone<br>And it lay all around<br>And she brushed it down as I stood by her side<br>In the warmth of her love<br><br>And she showed me her treasures of paper and tin<br>And then we played a game only she could win<br>And she told me a riddle I'll never forget<br>Then left with the answer I've never found yet<br><br>How long, said she, can a moment like this<br>Belong to someone<br>What's wrong, what is right, when to live or to die<br>We must almost be born<br>So if you should ask me what secrets I hide<br>I'm only your lover, don't make me decide<br><br>The perfume that she wore was from some little store<br>On the down side of town<br>But it lingered on long after she'd gone<br>I remember it well<br><br>And she showed me her treasures of paper and tin<br>And then we played a game only she could win<br>And our fingers entwined like ribbons of light<br>And we came through a doorway somewhere in the night