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I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine Lyrics

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,
An' I keep crying, crying.

Ooooh baby,
Ooooh baby,
I wish I never saw the sunshine,
I wish I never saw the sunshine,
An' if I never saw the sunshine bay,
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,
An' I keep crying, crying.

Ooooh baby,
Ooooh baby,
I wish I never saw the sunshine,
I wish I never saw the sunshine,
An' if I never saw the sunshine bay,
Then maybe I wouldn't mind the rain.

Ooooh this pain,
And I know there would not be,
This cloud that's over me,
Everywhere I go.

Ooooh baby,
Ooooh baby,
I wish I never saw the sunshine,
I wish I never saw the sunshine,
An' if I never saw the sunshine bay,
Then maybe I wouldn't mind the rain.

Ooooh 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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Cover art for I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine lyrics by Beth Orton

Whoever wrote this song knows what it feels like

"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, An' I keep crying, crying"

Cover art for I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine lyrics by Beth Orton

i think beth orton wrote it.... and yes. she does. beautiful song and lyrics.

@loveandsqualor Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry & Philip Spector wrote this song for the singing girl group The Ronettes. But Beth certainly sings it with total conviction as if she's lived it.

Cover art for I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine lyrics by Beth Orton

she is simply beautiful & amazing. i really love how her voice always plays with the words she is singing & makes you feel like you've experienced everything she has. bravo beth !

Cover art for I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine lyrics by Beth Orton

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

Cover art for I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine lyrics by Beth Orton

B-yewtaful...

Cover art for I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine lyrics by Beth Orton

This song is painful to listen to. It is such a great song, but it actually hurts to listen to it. It could easily be about a spouse/parent/child who has died. Man, who needs a drink.

Cover art for I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine lyrics by Beth Orton

Stunning, and so true.

Cover art for I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine lyrics by Beth Orton

This song was written, if I’m not mistaken, by the husband and wife team of Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, who had several big hits in the Brill building era. They met while he was still married to another, and music brought them together in not the best of circumstances. So, as usually happens in those cases, the marriage came to an end, although their partnership continued for a while afterwards, and again if I’m not mistaken this song was written during that time. So the words contained about feeling complete misery at the loss of someone loved are very much a reflection of their lives at the time of writing. The song was considered among the most dramatic for the Ronettes and it’s a great version of course, but this one really seems to get at that just, like, utter depression in a way the original can’t. I’ve given it a lot of thought and this may be the saddest song I can think of.

 
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