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The Song I Never Wrote for You

from The Glassy Mountain by Sophie Ramsay

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lyrics

We never saved much for posterity
We had no cause
We had the rest of our long lives.

I never took any photographs of you
I was too busy looking at your sweet warm eyes.
I never wrote you a love song
Though I wanted to–
I comfort myself with the thought that you knew:

I would have loved you forever if your life had carried on
And I will love you forever
Although you are irrevocably gone.
This is the song I never wrote, although I always meant to.

But I was busy holding your hand and kissing your nice lips
And I guess we both knew it was a love song that we lived.
I loved the names you called me,
I loved your clever eyes
I loved your body even though it sometimes made you shy.

I would have loved you forever if your life had carried on
And I will love you forever
Although you are irrevocably gone.

This is the song I never wrote for you.
This is the song I never wrote for you.
This is the song I never wrote, although I always meant to.

The future was ours, and so we staked so many claims
The places we would travel to
The children, the names
Of the friends who we were still to meet,
All the evenings, the jokes
But now, as it turns out, we have been robbed of all our hopes.

This is the song I never wrote for you.
This is the song I never wrote for you.
This is the song I never wrote, although I always meant to.

I would have loved you forever if your life had carried on
And I will love you forever
Although you are irrevocably gone.

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from The Glassy Mountain, released November 2, 2013

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Sophie Ramsay UK

Sophie Ramsay sings old and new folk: songs from her native Scotland alongside originals with poetic lyrics. ‘The Glassy Mountain' (2013): ‘undeniably beautiful’ (fRoots), 'Joanna Newsom meets Belle and Sebastian' (R2). ‘The Seas Between Us’ (2016): 'Atmospheric, elegant and beguiling.' (Songlines). ‘Deeply moving’ (fRoots). Sophie tours regularly with cellist singer Sarah Smout. ... more

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