Lyrics Silk And Steel - David Harley

Rapid-fire repartee, quicksilver conversation
Tongues that stroked and struck, caressed and clashed
I remember all too well the arching of your eyebrows
When you pruned my self-importance when you saw that I'd been rash
And left my lines over-extended, and my flanks undefended
Tactically, I never could compete with you
But you always held back from the coup de grâce
So finally you met your Waterloo

In the long years since I left you, I could never quite forget
Through all those other beds and battlefields
It's been so long since we crossed blades, and I forget the finer shades
Of the skirmishes where we laid steel to steel
But the silk of your caress, and your blazing red-haired temper
Left a scar that never really did quite heal
Like your after-midnight tenderness: somehow across the years
I never quite pull free of silk and steel
And I never quite cut free of silk and steel