In Love With The Greenery Lyrics - Poor Old Lu

Definitely the oldest song on the album, it was originally recorded on our first album (1990), In Love With The Greenery, when we played under the name BellBangVilla. In 1989, we traveled to Germany for a mission trip with our church. On one of the areas that we drove past a few times were written the words (in spraypaint) "I Love You, All I'm Saying, Pretty Baby, La La Love You". So this song was originally called "La La Love You". We found out before our releasing album that these lyrics came from a Pixies song, which was fine with us. Unfortunately, we found out that that song was also called "La La Love You", which was not fine with us. The song name was eventually changed to just "Love You". I always hated that name. Before Mindsize was released, we changed the name of this song to "In Love With The Greenery". 

Written under the guise of God speaking to one person in particular, it was most noted for its interesting imagery which changed from line to line. The notion is that God is truly pained by seeing His children suffer in wrong decisions. The chorus originally read "You took on the world, it took me by surprise...", but Aaron felt that it was a bad representation of what God knows, that is, nothing takes Him by surprise. Aaron was right. I changed the line. 

You said, "I love the world" 

"I love what you've done for me" 

you let my grip go 

And played the piano keys 

Couldn't even see 

Boxed in by a fantasy 

Scared of real love 

You're dead by your destiny 

Now shuffling around 

Shaking like a tambourine 

Confused like the tide 

By every star you've seen 

You took on the world 

It took you by surprise 

Like the day you fell 

And tears fell from my eyes 

Standing so tall 

You said, "Yes I'll salute you King" 

Lost in a forest 

In love with the greenery 

Apart from the crowd 

Never caught looking 

around for a scene 

Like loneliness you're sinking 

I cried of your sin 

And every other thing 

that held you down 

Down so far from me 

Take diamonds right now 

But I promise eternity