If beds could talk, mine would be singing, singing about the time
When you and I were lovers, all night long, we could not stop,
They were amazing times, they were the crazy times, they were
The best that I have known, another place to fly, another taste to try,
We were awake in a beautiful dream;
If beds could talk, mine would be saying, come back and hold me
In your arms again, if beds could talk, mine would be calling,
Come back and let me love you once again;
If walls could hear, mine would remember every word we said when
You and I were lovers, all night long, we could not stop, remember
Every kiss, and every touch of lips, and every sensual delight,
They were hypnotic times, they were erotic times, they were a
Thousand Arabian nights;
If beds could talk, mind would be saying, come back and hold me
In your arms again, if beds could talk, mine would be calling,
Come back and let me love you once again;
If beds could talk, if walls could hear, if windows see, imagine,
The moments and the memories, they all come flooding back,
If tables turn, if wheels caress, if mirrors see the passion,
You'd be the best of them all;
If beds could talk, mine would be saying, come back and hold me
In your arms again, if beds could talk, mine would remember, so
Come back and let me love you once again,
If beds could talk - mine would be singing,
If beds could talk - mine would remember,
If beds could talk - mine would be calling,
If beds could talk - mine would be waiting,
If beds could talk - mine would be singing,
If beds could talk, if beds could talk, if beds could talk...
"I travel an awful lot and I stay in hotels a lot - and I've always been a 'What if?' person. I suppose it even goes back as far as to 'A Spaceman Came Travelling' and 'Spanish Train, in the early days. And I have no idea where the idea came from but imagine if... beds could talk, if walls could hear... There are actually people out there who do believe that human beings, all living things, put out an energy that is absorbed and recreated and regenerated and remembered. There are people who say that we leave footprints everywhere we go in life, with the energy we give out - and maybe I believe that, too. So, the song develops the story about a guy: 'If beds could talk, mine would be singing thinking about you'. You know, it's about the lover he misses so much because she was the best ever. It has absolutely no reference to me, whatsoever, and I am glad to admit that! It's just an idea. That's what I often do; take an idea, extrapolate it, form it and make it into something that everybody, or the majority of public, can say 'Oh, yeah - I can really dig that.' And this is, I guess, a bit of a laugh. The guy in the song has had a stunning relationship with somebody and, as you may have noticed from what I've been saying earlier, not too many of these new songs, I would say, drift off to the mists of time. They're about current things that have happened to me or I've thought about - or have happened to people around me. And 'If Beds Could Talk' is, as you'll hear, a fun song - can't wait to do this one live - about a fellow who's had a terrific lover, a terrific girlfriend, and if the bed could talk it would say 'Come back! I need you... on top of me again... beside me... let me hug you one more time'. It's, I guess, a feeling that 'if walls could hear every word you said to me about how much you loved me, maybe they could recreate that feeling' and 'if mirrors could see and pass on all that absorbed energy and interest about a relationship'. But it's not too serious - it's just fun."
The Getaway Gazette, September 2002
Albums
"If Beds Could Talk" appears on the following albums:
