Annie Lennox - Songs from the Coalmine Canary

Once i had a strange love,
a mad sort of insane love,
a love so fast and fierce i thought i’d die.

Yes once i had a strange love,
a pure but very pained love,
a love that burned like fire through a field.

Oh once i had a strange love,
a childlike but deranged love,
a love that if were bottled it would kill.

See once i had a strange love,
a secret and untamed love,
a love that took no prisoners at all.

Strange love, strange love.
Strange love, strange love.

And once i had a strange love
a psychic unexplained love,
a love that challenged scientific facts.

And then there was that strange love,
that very badly trained love,
a love that needed discipline and facts.

Once i had a strange love
a public acclaimed love,
the kind of love that’s seen in magazines.

And once i had a strange love,
a beautiful but vained love,
a love i think it’s better left in dreams.

Strangest love.
Strangest love.

And once i had a strange love,
a morally inflamed love,
we’d go on holy battles in the nights.

And then there was that strange love
that vulgar and profane love,
the kind of love that we don’t talk about.

Yes, once i had a strange love,
a lying infidel love,
who wove in stories like Sherazade.

And once i had a strange love,
a flaky white kinky love,
we ran so fast we almost spilled our guts.

You see i’ve had some strange love,
some good, some bad, some plain love,
some so-so love, so what?
And c’est la vie…

But just let me proclaim, love, that, out of all the strange love
you’re the strangest love i’ve ever known.