Strange – one minute I’m working on the OOTB site, then I pick up my guitar for a little relaxation. Looking through some lyics on the computer I find a set from May 2004 I don’t remember writing at all!
Before long I’ve got a sort of tune for it and I’ve just got to get it down before I forget it. Fortunately nobody is in. Quick recording, half improvised. And here it is in public, disfiguring marks and all. Just voice and guitar. In future I may layer stuff on it, but then people will probably say they preferred this version – so be it. I hope you like it, it’s not my usual style.
If You Had Said
Lyrics below …
If you had only said
What the stars in the early evening
Meant to you
If you had let me know
If you had only said
That you need an arm around your
shoulder
In the cold
I guess I needed to be told
So many days are lost
So many years have fled
We could have lived them all
If you had only said
If you had only said
How I hurt you and made you want to
Die inside
And how you always knew I lied
If I had only known
What it cost you to keep wearing that
smile for me
If you had only let me see
So many days are lost
So many years have fled
We could have lived them all
If you had only said
You’re so beautiful
The world has no right
It’s for people
like me
Who try to
grab
Whatever comes
inside their range
And then think it’s
all so strange
When there’s
nothing in their hands
Nothing in their
hands
Copyright Norman Lamont 2004
very ‘remains of the day’ till the last bit.
poignant and beautifully vague about who the characters are and their relationship…open to personal interpretaition by others.
something that could not be levelled at the musical torture i heard today. the mike Read single to fundraise for the tsunami…..’grief never dies’ aaaaagh.
don’t have ability to tell my computer how to sing it [ your song that is]. will try and learn
‘mistakes aren’t the enemy regret is the enemy’ from porcupines kisses by stephen dobyns
still having no inspiration on the valentine haiku as feeling such a jauary sepia smirr in my head . hard to be all pink andfluffy at the same time.
how about snow drifts
snow drops
valentine slush
yes my children laughed pityingly as well.
I’ll pop an entry form in the postin the hope you can do better . just need your address I think unless on your web site which is what i was looking for but found this……….computers like DIY always take longer than you think to achieve anything
cheers
mandy
Very useful comments – good to read
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