Name: Searching For Venus
Duration: P00H02M56S
Description: The song tells a story of a an encounter, a reunion that turns out to be a mirage. Wishful thinking or just the randomness of travel. Of all the swimming pools all over the world, it had to be this one.

Searching For Venus

from Century - (Tapes Vol 3.) by Andy Roberts

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

£1 GBP or more
Buy the Full Digital Album
Subscription

Subscribe now to receive all the new music Andy Roberts creates, including 12 back-catalog releases, delivered instantly to you via the Bandcamp app for iOS and Android. You’ll also get access to subscriber-only exclusives. Learn more.

Subscribe Now £19.50 GBP/year or more
Full Digital Discography

12

releases

Get all 12 Andy Roberts releases available on Bandcamp and save 40%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Roll On The Day, Boulevard Days, The Rowan Tree, Unnailed! - The Last Nail, solo acoustic, Sleep, Century - (Tapes Vol 3.), Puddles (Tapes vol 1.), Mazet (tapes vol 2), and 4 more. , and , .
Excludes subscriber-only releases.

Purchasable with gift card

£19.17 GBP or more (40% OFF)

about

The song tells a story of a an encounter, a reunion that turns out to be a mirage. Wishful thinking or just the randomness of travel. Of all the swimming pools all over the world, it had to be this one.

lyrics

Lying there next to the swimming pool
She kicks off her shoes and reads a magazine
I've been travelling just for her and I
Still won't remember all the things I've seen

Though she can't see my eyes,
She doesn't seem to recognise me as I bend down and offer her a glass

Five years I've been looking for her
Most of the time I was on my own,
Then I saw her there looking just like she did,
I knew right away I was almost home

Though I can't see her eyes, she doesn't seem to be be surprised
And she says, no thank you I don't

Five years can really turn a man inside out
But I swear that to look at I haven't changed all that much
She's got no reason to pretend not to know
We parted as friends we said we'd keep in touch
keep in touch

Then it suddenly dawned up on me, that the woman I could see was not the one,
No she was not the one at all

Just like both the times it happened before
The resemblance was amazing I was completely taken in
and I wonder when they're gonna send the next one along
and if the five years has yet to begin and if the day will ever come
When I finally catch up with the one who keeps me from going back to where I came from

Lying there next to the swimming pool....

credits

from Century - (Tapes Vol 3.), released December 23, 2020

license

about

Andy Roberts England, UK

Original and unique songs through the decades
in the classic
"contemporary folk" solo acoustic
singer songwriter style.

Influences: Roy Harper, Mike Chapman, Loudon Wainwright, Beefheart ... more

Recommendations

contact / help

Contact Andy Roberts

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

Andy Roberts recommends:

Instrumental
by Nick Harper

Just great guitar playing Andy Roberts
go to album

If you like Andy Roberts, you may also like:

The Edge of the Land
by Katie Spencer

Spencer's indie folk sophomore album was recorded live in the studio over the course of two days. Bandcamp New & Notable May 6, 2022
go to album
About Time
by Adriana Vasques

featured on Bandcamp Radio Dec 6, 2022
go to album
A Place Like Home
by Mr. Alec Bowman_Clarke

The new EP from Scottish songwriter Alec Bowman_Clarke goes deep, setting vulnerable lyrics to gentle melodies & stripped-back arrangements. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 30, 2021
go to album
I Used To Be Sad & Then I Forgot
by Mr. Alec Bowman_Clarke

Alec Bowman perfectly captures the dark soil under the pastoral world of British folk with this collection of melancholy originals. Bandcamp New & Notable May 12, 2020
go to album
For She Who Hangs The Moon
by David Luximon

Expansive music that has the gentle hush of ambient and the insistent pulse of post-rock; enveloping and absorbing. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 5, 2018
go to album