Uploaded November 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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The official audio for Reason or Rhyme by Bryan Ferry. Taken from the new album Bitter-Sweet, featuring new twists on well loved Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry tracks. Buy here: bryanferry.lnk.to/BSweetID

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Lyrics

Why must you shed such tender tears
In the evening of your years
No other love could stem the tide
Of the loneliness I hide

Open your heart and let me live
All the promises I could give
The sun and moon and all the stars
They bow down to you
Whenever you pass
In a world of fading sadness
An emerald ring, a photograph

That look in your eyes, the brush of your cheek
These are the moments in life that I seek
No reason or rhyme, no presence of mind
Just a dance to the music of time

Why must you shed such tender tears
In the evening of your years
No other love could stem the tide
Of the loneliness I hide