Song Description
Man's caught in a moment of nastalgia as he remembers a lover who left him to move overseas.
Song Length |
4:47 |
Genre |
Folk - General, Folk - Contemporary |
Tempo |
Slow (71 - 90) |
Lead Vocal |
Duet Male/Female |
Mood |
Relaxed, Moving |
Subject |
Lost Love, Loneliness |
Similar Artists |
Indigo Girls, Bob Dylan |
Language |
English |
Era |
1960 - 1969 |
| |
Lyrics
When you're not here, I've come to know that I am just a domino
without another body that can soften up the fall. When you're not here, I've begun to find that I'm a stick of dynamite that makes a noise that no one hears and leaves a hole that can't be filled
Oh, without you, I can hardly stand up straight. Yet, without you I could always see the beauty of your face. Will you remind me...
You sailed across the foggy sea, I watched you drift away from me
The country took you in and courted every crack upon your lips.
You walk upon the ocean docks and feel the wind rip 'gainst the rocks
It sings and howls through your hair the words that I had said for years,
"Oh, forgive me, I can hardly spell your name."
"Please forgive me, you must know my life can never be the same."
Will you remind me
how you blazed that night from the colorful to the black and white?
I've always known that I belong to another time- 1965
Now I'm alone, it's for the best, you can lay my thoughts to rest my gaze upon your crimson hair dreaming ahead to days not there. Roll on roll, the thunder shakes the memory of our mistakes, like vapor spreads the cool dawn, they settle in each pore where you've belonged.
Without you, I can hardly stand up straight. Yet, without you I could always see the beauty of your face. Will you remind me
how you blazed my life from the colorful to the black and white?
I've always known that I belong to another time-1965