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I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain Lyrics
Oh I never asked to be your mountain
I never asked to fly
Remember when you came to me
And told me of his lies
You didnt understand my love
You dont know why I try
And the rain was falling on that day
And damn the reason why
The flying pisces sails for time
And tells me of my child
Wrapped in bitter tales and heartache
He begs for just a smile
Oh he never asked to be her mountain
He never asked to fly
And through his eye he comes his love
And tells her not to cry
She says, your scoundrel father flies
With a dancer called a queen
And with her stolen cards he plays
And laughs, but never wins
Oh the child dreams to be his hands
In the counting of the rain
But only barren breasts he feels
For her milk will never drain
As I die I cant remember
Where I saw the rain:
Could it be that her laughter
Drove me down again?
Charming dancer will you stop,
Stop and talk to me?
Is there someone else you feel
In your dreams? you will, you see:
In midnight gazes
Ive found you far from me
If you lead me on
Please leave me down
Oh flying flying fish
Please flutter by my door
Yes you can drink my lies
If first you read my eyes
Each one is titled
Im drowning back to you
I cant swim your waters
And you cant walk my lands
Im sailing all my sins
And Im climbing all my fears
And soon now Ill fly
Oh I never asked to be your mountain
I never asked to fly
Remember when you came to me
And told me of his lies
You didnt understand my love
You dont know why I try
And the rain was falling on that day
And thats the reason why
Sweet lover, will you come back
And love me for a while?
Please take my hand
Leave all your fears behind
Ive been gone too long
Now Im home to stay
Please dont leave me
Again this way
Please come home.
I never asked to fly
Remember when you came to me
And told me of his lies
You didnt understand my love
You dont know why I try
And the rain was falling on that day
And damn the reason why
And tells me of my child
Wrapped in bitter tales and heartache
He begs for just a smile
Oh he never asked to be her mountain
He never asked to fly
And through his eye he comes his love
And tells her not to cry
With a dancer called a queen
And with her stolen cards he plays
And laughs, but never wins
Oh the child dreams to be his hands
In the counting of the rain
But only barren breasts he feels
For her milk will never drain
Where I saw the rain:
Could it be that her laughter
Drove me down again?
Charming dancer will you stop,
Stop and talk to me?
Is there someone else you feel
In your dreams? you will, you see:
In midnight gazes
Ive found you far from me
If you lead me on
Please leave me down
Please flutter by my door
Yes you can drink my lies
If first you read my eyes
Each one is titled
Im drowning back to you
I cant swim your waters
And you cant walk my lands
Im sailing all my sins
And Im climbing all my fears
And soon now Ill fly
I never asked to fly
Remember when you came to me
And told me of his lies
You didnt understand my love
You dont know why I try
And the rain was falling on that day
And thats the reason why
And love me for a while?
Please take my hand
Leave all your fears behind
Now Im home to stay
Please dont leave me
Again this way
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Kind of fitting that Jeff would perform this song, as it was written by his father about abandoning Jff and his mum, Anyways, when doing this song live way back in 1991 at a tim buckley tribute gig, Jeff actually inserted his own verse to his fathers song. it goes
"my love is the flower that lies among the graves, my love is the thousand souls that it saves And all the insane madmen tell me i'm not as love behaves Lay me not in lands of men, just spread my ash along the way'
I wanna feel the tide pull through me, like a women drunk as sin I wanna feel the fish swim through me, let the water tag my skin Wrapped around the pebble that you choose to warm your hand Just as i dream everyday As i pray you'll understand"
Comes after 'oh flying fish' verse. thought it might be nice to share Jeff's poetry with you lovely people.
wow, cant believe there are no comments on this one. this song is brilliant and so are lyrics eventhough it wasn't jeff who wrote them he gives them such deep meaning while singing...
i think this is a tim buckley song, written about jeffs mother mary sometime after they split. jeff sung a cover of it at a tim buckley memorial in the early nineties