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Gentlemen Take Polaroids (Live)

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Gentlemen Take Polaroids (Live)

Release date: 1st June 1983

From Oil on Canvas

About This Track

"Gentlemen Take Polaroids (Live)" is a track by Japan, from the album Oil on Canvas, released 1st June 1983. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

Gentlemen Take Polaroids (Live)

[Verse 1]

Now, there's a girl about town I’d like to know

I'd like to slip away with you

And if you said you love me, how could I mind?

Is there another side to everything you do?

[Chorus]

Take in the country air, you'll never win

Gentlemen take polaroids

They fall in love, they fall in love

Gentlemen take polaroids

They fall in love, they fall in love

[Verse 2]

Breathe life into me, spin me around

And I’ll just sit and wonder why

It's just a foreign town with a foreign mind

Why is everything so cut and dry?

[Chorus]

The taste of country air, you'll never know

Gentlemen take polaroids

They fall in love, they fall in love

Gentlemen take polaroids

They fall in love, they fall in love

[Instrumental]

[Chorus]

Take in the country air, you'll never win

Gentlemen take polaroids

They fall in love, they fall in love

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Track details

From Oil on Canvas

1983

Album

Release year

1983

—Voices Raised in Welcome, Hands Held in Prayer
—Visions of China (Live)
—Cantonese Boy (Live)
—Gentlemen Take Polaroids (Live)
—Ghosts (Live)
—Methods of Dance (Live)
—Nightporter (Oil on Canvas Version)
—Oil on Canvas
—Still Life in Mobile Homes (Live)
—Swing (Live)
—Sons Of Pioneers (Live)
—Canton (Live)
—Temple of Dawn
—Quiet Life (Live)
—The Art of Parties (Live)

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Credits

Credited: David Sylvian, John Punter, Mick Karn, Nigel Walker, Richard Barbieri, Steve Jansen, Virgin Records, 土屋昌巳 (Masami Tsuchiya)