I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine

Beth Orton

Baby do you know what you did today?
Baby do you know what you took away?

You took the blue out of the sky
My whole life changed when you said goodbye

And I keep crying
Crying

Oh, baby
Oh, baby
I wish I never saw the sunshine
I wish I never saw the sunshine
And if I never saw the sunshine baby
Then maybe I wouldn't mind the rain

Every day is just like the day before
All alone a million miles from shore

All of my dreams, I dreamed with you
Now they will die and never come true

And I keep crying
Crying

Oh, baby
Oh, baby
I wish I never saw the sunshine
I wish I never saw the sunshine
And if I never saw the sunshine baby
Then maybe I wouldn't mind the rain

Oh, this pain

You know there would not be
This cloud that's over me
Everywhere I go

Oh, baby
Oh, baby
I wish I never saw the sunshine
I wish I never saw the sunshine
And if I never saw the sunshine baby
Then maybe I wouldn't mind the rain

Oh, this pain
I wouldn't mind the rain
There wouldn't be this pain
I wouldn't mind the rain
I wouldn't mind the rain


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    actually it's a cover of a really old song, but beth's version sounds better to me

    lost_but_not_foundon September 18, 2004   Link

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