5th Dimension - Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes (1971) video free download
Note: Click "Show More" for lyrics. This song is from the album of the same name, released 1 Feb 1971. The performance is Marilyn McCoo on stage by herself, lip syncing to the song as recorded by the band. The video is from "The Fifth Dimension Travelling Sunshine Show" which aired on TV on Wednesday, 18 Aug 1971. It's one of my favorites by this group, and seldom (or more likely, never) heard on the radio these days.
Lyrics:
Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes (D. Joyce / Bell Records / Arista)
(Spoken intro)
Love.
Love is all the emotions in the world,
Multiplied by every man and woman who ever lived...
(Music starts)
Love leads
The lines of love in circles and angles
Love runs deep
Like a tunnel with a pendulum beat
That touches the heart in many directions
Moving the mind in silent reflections
Of the lines that touch the corners and fibers
Of the feeling that keeps running inside
Of the cycles of fears with the longing and tears
Letting out the needs and laughter
Of sunshine, love shine
Touching the fibers of the feeling inside
Letting out the things you hide
Oh, yeah...
Ooooh...
Need leads
The lines of love in circles and angles
Need runs deep
Like a tunnel with a pendulum beat
That touches the heart in many directions
Moving the mind in silent reflections
Of the lines that touch the corners and fibers
Of the feeling that keeps running inside
Of the cylinders of hope turning and yearning
Into pendulums of weary hes-i-ta-tion...
Con-tem-pla-tion...
Of the angles and rhymes and the triangle lines
The feeling touching mine with time...
Ooooh...
Want leads
The lines of love in circles and angles
Want runs deep
Like a tunnel with a pendulum beat
That touches the heart in many directions
Moving the mind in silent reflections
Of the lines that touch the corners and fibers
Of the feeling that keeps running inside
Of the cylinders of hope turning and yearning
Into pendulums of weary hesitation
Angles and rhymes and the circles and lines
With the tunnels of love running over
Taking the line and triangle rhyme and twisting it
To bend the mind in all directions
It's love and want and need and all those things
Tearing you apart...
Comments
9 years ago
Kenneth Craddock
If God defined beauty, intelligence,grace by, Marilyn McCoo, she is the epitome of all that, as a youngster I was mesmerized by her, always wanted a female partner like Marilyn, what a paradigm. Billy Davis you are a fortunate brother....9 years ago
Kenneth Craddock
Grew up in NJ lusting after Marilyn McCoo who was born in NJ, she was the ideal woman. beautiful, intelligent, sexy, talented,...my mouth used to be open when I saw her on tv, wishing that I had a woman who was classy, dignified, beautiful, sexy, intelligent, all at the same time...Billy Davis is a fortunate dude....bless you both9 years ago
Der Kiy
I agree with Eddie Miller...exactly!10 years ago
Eddie Miller
This is the best version of this song ,hauntingly ,Timeless ,Enigmatic Masterpiece.10 years ago
Eddie Miller
This is the best version of this song ,hauntingly ,Timeless ,Enigmatic Masterpiece.10 years ago
HowsaBowsaYowsa
Marilyn McCoo, Carly Simon, Carole King, James Taylor, Elton John, and a few others were bursting out with new music in 1971. It was a great time in American music with songwriters who actually sang their own music (not sure if Marilyn wrote though). Wonderful just to listen to the radio. Can't forget the Carpenters either.10 years ago
Jay Jackson
Marilyn is so smooth on this song.I love it when she say oh yea at 1:1510 years ago
James Ross
What a great song actually I'm hearing it for the first time. I can't say that I ever heard it on the radio.10 years ago
the1realanalogman
If your focus is sex as the main theme of this work, you are totally missing the message: "Love is all the emotions in the world, multiplied by every man and woman who ever lived"...10 years ago
ninjastah
Wow Repeat!!10 years ago
Don White
this lady is deep you get songs like this ever again never again wow......10 years ago
Don White
man i love this song10 years ago
Nicholas Maxwell
1971 was a great year, i was 11 years old and went to summer camp mand heard this song all over the radio!!10 years ago
sauquoit13456
On this day in 1971 {August 18th} the 5th Dimension performed "Love's Lines, Angles, and Rhymes" on their ABC-TV special 'The 5th Dimension Traveling Show'...Five months earlier on February 21st, 1971 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #69; and on April 11th, 1971 it peaked at #19 {for 1 week} and spent 10 weeks on the Top 100...It reached #6 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and #28 in Canada...Between 1967 and 1976 the group had thirty Top 100 records; with seven making the Top 10 and two reaching #1, "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In" for 6 weeks on April 6th 1969 and "Wedding Bell Blues" for 3 weeks on November 2nd, 1969,,,Sadly, original group member Ron Townson passed away on August 2nd, 2001 at the age of 68...May he R.I.P.10 years ago
Kiernan007
she killed my fav group10 years ago
joyce white
wow what a voice10 years ago
mainrmdj
What a voice! One of my favorites, she is an angel. 10 years ago
carew388
Such a Lovely Woman :)10 years ago
Frances A Danna
I forgot all about this song---Really love this.<310 years ago
Paul Robinson
This is one of those songs that is a clear statement of the feelings resulting from Sexual Intercourse. The way the song plays and the rise in tempo reminded me of the ascension to climax. While no where near as blatant as Rod Stewart's "Tonight's the Night" the meaning is unmistakable, and done so well they got away with it.Related Videos
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