Tears of Pearls by Savage Garden

Savage Garden

Savage Garden were a pop duo consisting of Darren Hayes on vocals and Daniel Jones on instruments. The duo formed in 1993 in Brisbane, Australia, and achieved global success in the mid-1990s with hit singles including ‘I Want You’, ‘Truly Madly Deeply’, and ‘The Animal Song’. Savage Garden disbanded in 2001 with Hayes continuing as a solo artist

Tears of Pearls
Album: Savage Garden
Date: 1997
Genre: Pop

Lyrics by Daniel Jones and Darren Hayes

And we stare each other down
Like victims in the grind
Probing all the weakness and hurt still left behind
And we cry
These tears of pearls
We do it. Oh we do it.

Is love really the tragedy
The way you might describe?
Or would a thousand lovers
Still leave you cold inside?
Make you cry…
These tears of pearls

All these mixed emotions
We keep locked away
Like stolen pearls
Stolen pearl devotions
We keep locked away from all the world

Your kisses are like pearls,
So different and so rare
But anger stole the jewels away
And love has left you bare,
Made you cry…
These tears of pearls

Well I could be the tired joker
Pour my heart to get you in
Sacrifice my happiness
Just so I could win
Maybe cry…
These tears of pearls

All these mixed emotions
We keep locked away like stolen pearls
Stolen pearl devotions
We keep locked away from all the world

We twist and turn where angels burn
Like fallen soldiers, we will learn
That once forgotten, twice removed
Love will be the death,
The death of you…
Baby!
C’mon darlin’
Mm, mm, mm, mm… Yeah…

All these mixed emotions
We keep locked away like stolen pearls
Stolen pearl devotions
We keep locked away from all the world