The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove Lyrics
Well you've seen it ten times before
I thought that you had it down
With both your feet on the ground
I love slow, slow but deep
Feigned affections wash over me
Dream on my dear
And renounce temporal obligations
Dream on my dear
It's a sleep from which you may not awaken
You build me up then you knock me down
You play the fool while I play the clown
We keep time to the beat of an old slave drum
You raise my hopes then you raise the odds
You tell me that I dream too much
Now I'm serving time in disillusionment
I don't believe you anymore
I don't believe you
I thought that I knew it all
I'd seen all the signs before
I thought that you were the one
In darkness my heart was won
You play the fool while I play the clown
We keep time to the beat of an old slave drum
You raise my hopes then you raise the odds
You tell me that I dream too much
Now I'm serving time in a domestic graveyard
I don't believe you anymore
I don't believe you
Never let it be said I was untrue
I never found a home inside of you
Never let it be said I was untrue
I gave you all my time
About
“The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove” is a 1965 episode of the British television program Danger Man (retitled Secret Agent in the United States). At the beginning of the episode, secret agent John Drake has a catastrophic car accident. The remainder of the episode takes the form of an increasingly-disjointed dream in which Drake finds himself called to account for a gambling debt of which he has no memory.
The surreality of Drake’s dream has been compared to star Patrick McGoohan’s later show The Prisoner.
Dreams appear prominently in the lyrics of the song, both in the sense of dreams that occur while sleeping, and in the figurative sense of hopes or goals one has in life.
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