Pardon Me
ALSO RELEASED ON: Ten Times Two - Tour Of The Americas, Sixty - The Trilogy Concert
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Version 1 is a full studio recording
Note that on the DTS LP and Focus cassette releases of Planet, the stereo image is reversed |
Only Visiting This Planet
Larry Norman White Blossoms From Black Roots [First CD version only] Siege At Elsinore |
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Version 2 is a live recording, performed solo with guitar by Randy Stonehill
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Judgment Day At Speedee Mart (Double vinyl 'mispressing' of Born Twice by Randy Stonehill)
The Cottage Tapes Book Two |
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Version 3 is a live recording, performed solo with acoustic guitar during a concert in Northern Ireland
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Version 4 is the same recording as version 1, but with the introduction removed
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Version 5 is the same recording as version 1, but faded out early
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Version 6 is a live recording, performed solo with acoustic guitar during the UK Tourniquet tour in 2001
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Version 7 is the basic track of version 1, without the orchestra overdubs
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lyrics versions 1, 4 and 5
Pardon me
Kissing you like I'm afraid
But I know I'm being played with
And you'll leave me when you get the chance
Off you'll go
In the darkness of the night
Like a bird in freedom's flight
You're thinking only of deliverance
Close your eyes
And pretend that you are me
See how empty it can be
Making love if love's not really there
Watch me go
Watch me walk away alone
As your clothing comes undone
And you pull the ribbons from your hair
Pardon me
Kissing you like I'm afraid
But I know I'm being played with
And you'll leave me when you get the chance
Off you'll go
In the darkness of the night
Like a bird in freedom's flight
You're thinking only of deliverance
Close your eyes
And pretend that you are me
See how empty it can be
Making love if love's not really there
Watch me go
Watch me walk away alone
As your clothing comes undone
And you pull the ribbons from your hair
Pardon me
lyrics version 2
Pardon me
Kissing you like I'm afraid
But I know I'm being played with
And you'll leave me when you get the chance
Off you'll go
In the darkness of the night
Like a bird in freedom's flight
You're thinking only of deliverance
Ooh ooh ooh
La la la la la la
Mmm hmm mmm
Ah la la la la la
Close your eyes
And pretend that you are me
See how empty it can be
Making love when love's not really there
Not really there
Watch me go
Watch me walk away alone
As your clothing comes undone
And you pull the ribbon from your hair
Pardon me [x3]
Kissing you like I'm afraid
But I know I'm being played with
And you'll leave me when you get the chance
Off you'll go
In the darkness of the night
Like a bird in freedom's flight
You're thinking only of deliverance
Ooh ooh ooh
La la la la la la
Mmm hmm mmm
Ah la la la la la
Close your eyes
And pretend that you are me
See how empty it can be
Making love when love's not really there
Not really there
Watch me go
Watch me walk away alone
As your clothing comes undone
And you pull the ribbon from your hair
Pardon me [x3]
lyrics version 3
Huh
Pardon me
Kissing you like I'm afraid
But I know I'm being played with
And you'll leave me when you get the chance
Off you'll go
In the darkness of the night
Like a bird in freedom's flight
You're thinking only of deliverance
[Imitates instrumental solo]
Close your eyes
And pretend that you are me
See how empty it can be
Making love if love's not really there
Watch me go
Watch me walk away alone
While your clothing comes undone
And you pull the ribbon from your hair
Pardon me [x3]
Pardon me
Kissing you like I'm afraid
But I know I'm being played with
And you'll leave me when you get the chance
Off you'll go
In the darkness of the night
Like a bird in freedom's flight
You're thinking only of deliverance
[Imitates instrumental solo]
Close your eyes
And pretend that you are me
See how empty it can be
Making love if love's not really there
Watch me go
Watch me walk away alone
While your clothing comes undone
And you pull the ribbon from your hair
Pardon me [x3]
lyrics version 6
Pardon me
Kissing you like I'm afraid
But I know I'm being played with
And you'll leave me when you get the chance
Off you'll go
In the darkness of the night
Like a bird in freedom's flight
You're thinking only of deliverance
[Imitates instrumental solo]
Close your eyes
And pretend that you are me
See how empty it can be
Making love if love's not really there
Watch me go
Watch me walk away alone
As your clothing comes undone
And you pull the ribbons from your hair
Pardon me
Pardon me
Pardon me
Kissing you like I'm afraid
But I know I'm being played with
And you'll leave me when you get the chance
Off you'll go
In the darkness of the night
Like a bird in freedom's flight
You're thinking only of deliverance
[Imitates instrumental solo]
Close your eyes
And pretend that you are me
See how empty it can be
Making love if love's not really there
Watch me go
Watch me walk away alone
As your clothing comes undone
And you pull the ribbons from your hair
Pardon me
Pardon me
Pardon me
lyrics version 7
One two three four, one two [Spoken]
Pardon me
Kissing you like I'm afraid
But I know I'm being played with
And you'll leave me when you get the chance
Off you'll go
In the darkness of the night
Like a bird in freedom's flight
You're thinking only of deliverance
Close your eyes
And pretend that you are me
See how empty it can be
Making love if love's not really there
Watch me go
Watch me walk away alone
As your clothing comes undone
And you pull the ribbons from your hair
Pardon me
Pardon me
Kissing you like I'm afraid
But I know I'm being played with
And you'll leave me when you get the chance
Off you'll go
In the darkness of the night
Like a bird in freedom's flight
You're thinking only of deliverance
Close your eyes
And pretend that you are me
See how empty it can be
Making love if love's not really there
Watch me go
Watch me walk away alone
As your clothing comes undone
And you pull the ribbons from your hair
Pardon me
Larry takes what is traditionally a woman's complaint (being pressured for sex by the male) and examines it from his own perspective.
Written in 1967 in response to a very young girl who had slipped me a note with her name, address and phone number on it - she made me very sad. Neither my manager nor People! thought the song had any merit.