slow burning love

Singer:james taylor

it was a hot and sultry day somewhere in early september. i don't hardly remember the day

just the way the sun beat down upon the bay

baby. i did not even need to know your name

it was

oh

so plain to see that you had eyes for me. halfway open

halfway closed

half-naked eyes for me

baby. it was a slow burning love

a fair-weather love affair. a slow burning

smoldering love for you and i. and like the sun on the edge of the western sky

it died. oh

the lights of the city were close at hand. i might just as well have been another man. you might just as well have been another girl. it might just as well have been another world. it was a slow burning love

a fair-weather love affair. a slow burning

smoldering love for you and i. and like the sun on the edge of the western sky

it died. oh

slow burning love. you were smoking up that day

some kind of hot. it was a slow burning love

a fair-weather love affair. a slow burning

smoldering love for you and i. and like the sun on the edge of the western sky

it died.

Lyric Context: slow burning love - james taylor