Name: Nobody's Song
Duration: P00H02M48S
Description: An indirect response to a couple of hostile responses to a not-very-cheerful story song I sang somewhere or other a few years ago. I try not to do sets that are unrelieved misery, but I'm not inclined to apologise because not all my songs are happy-clappy. OK, hardly any of my songs are happy-clappy... :)

Nobody's Song

from Nobody's Song by David A. Harley

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An indirect response to a couple of hostile responses to a not-very-cheerful story song I sang somewhere or other a few years ago. I try not to do sets that are unrelieved misery, but I'm not inclined to apologise because not all my songs are happy-clappy. OK, hardly any of my songs are happy-clappy... :)

lyrics

I don’t own the songs I’m singing / They found me by the road
And let me come along for the ride
Sometimes they’re only wordplay / Sometimes they’re almost true
Telling everybody’s history but mine

There’s a soldier just returned / Forever damaged from the war
There’s a sailor forever lost in time.
Songs to lift your spirits / Songs to break your heart
Telling everybody’s story but mine

Maybe I was killing time / While time was killing me
Ignoring all the people in my head
Peering out of broken mirrors / To tell their broken tales
All the people in my dreams and in my head

A city sleeps in sunlight / A seascape in the storm
A town that I might go back to some time
Words I heard from lovers / For a lifetime or a night
Singing anybody’s melody but mine

Friends and lovers past and gone / Places I should be
Dreams that died and others that came true
Time we spent together / Too much time spent apart
Someone gone forever, much too soon

I was only killing time / While time was killing me
Ignoring all the people in my head
Peering out of broken mirrors / To tell their broken tales
All the people in my dreams and in my bed

I don’t own the song I’m singing / It found me by the road
And let me come along for the ride
Maybe it’s just wordplay / Perhaps it’s almost true
Telling nobody’s story but mine

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from Nobody's Song, released June 16, 2022
Words & music, guitar and vocal by David A. Harley.

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David A. Harley England, UK

David Harley is a former professional musician, administrator, IT security editor, author and researcher, and former much else that is even less impressive. He now lives in Cornwall. More info at whealalice.com