Everybody Knows

Words & arrangement: Brenda Wootton. Music: Francis Lai. “Seagull” album. Vogue France; VG406 506223 MC706223; CD600260;1990

Everybody knows, we’re newly met

Players on a stage, precisely set —

Nature always takes its course . . .

Will it be a tragedy — or farce?

 

Once upon a time, it was that I

Figured love was just pie in the sky;

No-one ever saw my role,

Never cared how much I bared my soul.

 

If an indiscretion

Gives the wrong impression

Then it will not matter what we say . . .

Where can be the harm

If you take my arm,

For the game that only two can play?

 

Whisper in my ear, and all I’ll do

Turn my head around, look back at you

Make them think that’s how we feel,

Funny — I believe this could be real.

 

Such a force attracting,

I don’t think I’m acting,

I have no desire for it to end.

And from how you hold me,

You’ve already told me

In a way that you could not pretend.

 

Everybody knows, that we’re in love,

And they’re wondering what we’re thinking of.

Look at me, it surely shows,

Obviously, everybody knows.

Obviously, everybody knows.

 

Produced as a maxi single in France in 1989. The song on the reverse side, `Walk across the World’ reached number 1 in the charts in Japan.

Sue Ellery-Hill aug 2020