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Expecting to Fly Lyrics
There you stood on the edge of your feather, expecting to fly.
While I laughed, I wondered whether I could wave goodbye, knowing that you'd gone.
By the summer it was healing, we had said goodbye.
All the years we'd spent with feeling ended with a cry.
Babe, ended with a cry, babe, ended with a cry.
I tried so hard to stand as I stumbled and fell to the ground.
So hard to laugh as I fumbled and reached for the love I found, knowing it was gone.
If I never lived without you, now you know I'd die.
If I never said I loved you, now you know I'd try.
Babe, now you know I'd try, babe, now you know I'd try, babe.
While I laughed, I wondered whether I could wave goodbye, knowing that you'd gone.
By the summer it was healing, we had said goodbye.
All the years we'd spent with feeling ended with a cry.
Babe, ended with a cry, babe, ended with a cry.
So hard to laugh as I fumbled and reached for the love I found, knowing it was gone.
If I never lived without you, now you know I'd die.
If I never said I loved you, now you know I'd try.
Babe, now you know I'd try, babe, now you know I'd try, babe.
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defective On May 01, 2002
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This is a Buffalo Springfield track, from second album "Again". I know it from Neil Youngs "Decade" album originally and supposedly it was written by Young alone on one of his many break ups from the band. Dreamy strings, a simple acoustic folk rythm guitar, a simple melody and Youngs aching voice, overdubbed, drifting in between each section searching for forgiveness maybe? It's a stunningly beautiful song - with words that just... well... mean everything.
I think they'd had a arguement and split up - and then they split up, he in giant hissy fit months later (at summer) gets over it and tries to tell her how he always felt.