Jeff Lynne - Illusions In G Major lyrics

On the seven seas there was aphantom ship acoming,

Shinin' in the dead of night,

I heard the crew a hummin'

Tunes that sounded like the Rolling Stones and Leonard Cohen.

But they didn't know the words,

So I assumed that they was foreign.

CHORUS

But I heard them just the same doctor let me teach 'em,

I just wanna please 'em, doctor let me teach 'em.

I looked up in the sky there was a phantom plane a comin',

Shinin' in the dead of night,

I heard the pilot saying,

Poems that were written by John Keats and Robert Browning.

But he didn't know the words so,

I suppose that it was nothing.

CHORUS

But I heard them just the same doctor let me teach 'em,

I just wanna please 'em, doctor let me teach 'em.

Doctor please believe me, I know you won't decieve me,

But do these things I'm seein', have any hidden meaning.

It's all good entertainment and it doesn't cost a penny.

So please doc, let me teach 'em, if I could only reach 'em.

CHORUS

But I heard them just the same doctor let me teach 'em,

I just wanna please 'em, doctor let me teach 'em.