Name: I Never Meant
Duration: P00H05M13S
Description: I.R.I.S. Music Ireland

I Never Meant

from All The Songs In One Night by Giuliano Nistri

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I NEVER MEANT

I’m taking a ride home but I’m not coming back
I can travel the distance but never close the gap
the road takes a share and time took its own
so I’m finding my way back but I’m not coming home.

Maybe all that I knew was all I ever had
what brought me to you is tearing me apart
now cover your eyes and try to forget
we never meant it any less the day we met.

She said, “come over, I’ll take over, step right in
I’ve seven seas, an Indian breeze and sallow skin
you and your friend choose end-from-end, mind the sway
the tide rolls in, the ropes grow thin, and we’re away
but I never meant to take you home.”
"My love you’re so quiet,” she’d say, “and quietly in me
you rise like an ocean, I gradually recede
what silence denies me I’ll find in your arms
so be gentle, be gentle with me, be gentle when it comes.”

An older vibration - I don’t know what else to say -
but mid-conversation I found myself away
the front row is fading and the back takes a glance
two souls find a line and there's room enough to dance.

“You hear that voice,” she says, “it’s just a noise on the lee”
but I suppose I’m one of those who needs to see
so I went lower, leaned right over and started crying
‘cause all the lines were showing signs that I’d been lying
and I never meant to take you home.

Giuliano Nistri © 2013

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from All The Songs In One Night, track released November 7, 2013
Words and Music by Giuliano Nistri
Produced by Pat Donne

Giuliano Nistri: Guitar, Vocal
Dan Callaghan: Double-bass
Tommy Gray: Drums

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