Barcelona song
Mister
I only know one joke and this is it
The hand that made the pieces fit
Swept them away
We hung like icicles at night
Melting slowly with the light
Of each new day
The love we made
Like the taste of lemonade
The sailing ship I used to dream of
The early evening shade
Silhouettes on cobbled streets
Summer nights on crumpled sheets
If love can kill
It will
In Barcelona
How those stars
Shone like Spanish bars
Calling me
Like the moon calls the sea
To Barcelona
In Barcelona
And how that sea
Shipwrecked me
Mister - it was those dark midnight eyes
Those lips those thighs
Mister - it was the songs from street cafes
Echoing the alleyways
The whips of moonlight beating on those shoulders
The hands that might as well have held a knife
That touched me and read my life
The shadows on the wall that crept like soldiers
The face that turned and caught the light
The look that I could never fight
The love we made each night
In Barcelona
Mister
Fetch me a gun that's what I need
A bucket for when I bleed
A light to show the way
And if they ask you why I died
Say I was driftwood on the tide
And couldn't stay
The love we made
Like the taste of lemonade
The sailing ship I used to dream of
The early evening shade
Silhouettes on cobbled streets
Summer nights on crumpled sheets
If love can kill
It will
In Barcelona
How those stars
Shone like Spanish bars
Calling me
Like the moon calls the sea
To Barcelona
In Barcelona
And how that sea
Shipwrecked me
Mister - it was those dark midnight eyes
Those lips those thighs
Mister - it was the songs from street cafes
Echoing the alleyways
The whips of moonlight beating on those shoulders
The hands that might as well have held a knife
That touched me and read my life
The shadows on the wall that crept like soldiers
The face that turned and caught the light
The look that I could never fight
The love we made each night
In Barcelona
Barcelona song
words & music by Robert Campbell
photo by Carmen Soriano
When performing live, this is the song we usually start the Barcelona set with. It's about someone returning to the city of Barcelona and remembering a passionate and dangerous love from the past.