Friday, June 10, 2005

Your Forgotten Song of the Day. (Or, The Ultimate Online Jukebox.)

Kayleigh--Marillion (from the 1985 album 'Misplaced Childhood")

Do you remember, chalk hearts melting on a playground wall?
Do you remember, dawn escaped from moonwashed college halls?
Do you remember, the cherry blossom in the market square?
Do you remember, I thought it was confetti in our hair
By the way didn't I break your heart?
Please excuse me, I never meant to break your heart.
So sorry I never meant to break your heart.
But you broke mine.

Kayleigh is it too late to say I'm sorry.
Kayleigh could we get it together again.
I can't go on pretending
that it came to a natural end.
Kayleigh I never thought I'd miss you,
and Kayleigh I'd hoped that we'd always be friends.
We said our love would last forever,
so how did it come to this bitter end.

Do you remember, barefoot on the lawn with shooting stars
Do you remember, loving on the floor in Belsize Park
Do you remember, dancing in stilletos in the snow
Do you remember, you never understood I had to go.
By the way, didn't I break your heart ?
Please excuse me I never meant to break your heart
So sorry, I never meant to break your heart,
But you broke mine.

Kayleigh, I just want to say I'm sorry,
but Kayleigh I'm too scared to pick up the phone.
To find you've found another lover
to patch up our broken home.
Kayleigh, I'm still trying to write that love song,
Kayleigh it's more important to me now you're gone.
Maybe it'll prove that we were right
Or it will prove that I was wrong.

Marillion is a little-known, progressive English band of the early 80's that influenced modern rock bands like Radiohead, and remains a cult favorite in the UK and at least two Hoosier households (Ft. Wayne and Indianapolis.)

I, too, am still trying to write that love song...to either prove that we were right, or to prove that I was wrong. Call it mental exercise, or call it spiritual exorcism...either way, it's still in there, and I gotta get it out before I move on.
Damn sentimentalism.

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