Name: I Loved Delaney
Duration: P00H03M59S
Description: This is an example of what happens when you hear a song and then try to write something that sounds like it. It usually doesn't.

I Loved Delaney

from The Battle for Wilson Street by James Wakeling

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This is an example of what happens when you hear a song and then try to write something that sounds like it. It usually doesn't.

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I Loved Delaney

I loved Delaney though I'm not sure she loved me
She left me drifting like a boat upon the sea
And then she'd call me back to the shore
When she thought, perhaps she wanted more

We danced in circles though she turned a sweeter step
She said move one way I went right and she moved left
Slipped away all care and no concern
Round the circle cutting in 'till her return

I could never know her secrets, all were unconfessed
Many wounds were open and casually left undressed
Oh Delaney, I loved you like a sin
Now it's over and there's just time to begin

Understandings and meanings missed
Other cheeks offered instead
Opportunities through fingers slipped
Open letters left unread

Mostly at night-time I calculate the cost
See through the darkness all the love that has been lost
Slipped away all care and no concern
"Till the morning when the verdict is returned

I could never make her happy, I could only make her smile
She never told the truth but still put me on trial
Oh Delaney, I loved you like a sin
Now it's over and there's just time to begin

© JAMESONGS 2019

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from The Battle for Wilson Street, released August 8, 2020
JAMES WAKELING: VOCAL, GUITAR

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