A song for the road

Sad melody, even sadder lyrics. I'm a sucker for such stuff. At some point in our lives, we all could play this song and think, she's singing my lines.

Sheila Nicholls's "Fallen For You"
~ from the movie High Fidelity

Fallen for you.
Did you ever see me
Watching from periphery?
I was playing another game,
I hoped you catch on all the same.

Fallen from view.
Did you ever touch me,
Floating through your potpourri?
I thought I felt your fingers once
After waiting all these months.

But I was wrong, so wrong.
That was just another song
You wrote for another girl.
And I hoped the day could be
When you'd write a song for me.
But it never came.
I thank you all the same,
But I'll go now, so you won't know how much I've

Fallen for you.
Boy who's trying to be a man,
Boy who don't know if he can.
I thought I knew you well enough
But your walls are still too tough.

But I was wrong, so wrong
That was just another song
You wrote for another girl.
And I hoped the day could be
When you'd write a song for me.
But it never came.
I thank you all the same,
But I'll go now, so you won't know how much I

Thought about you all the time,
Walking round the Guggenheim.
Like a rhyme in my mind,
There you are in my car,
But we don't drive very far
To the beach, out of reach,
Next to me... my fantasy.

Fallen for you
Did you ever see me,
Watching from periphery?
I was playing another game
I hoped you catch on all the same.

Posted by Monoceros at January 21, 2005 10:33 PM