Don't Throw Your Words Away (October)
from the Solitary Songs by Miriam Jones
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LYRICS
Lord knows that words don’t always earn their keep
And lovers pride themselves that they don’t need to speak
They’re so good at reading, one look is all they need
And I love all the faces that you make at me
The ones you pull on purpose and the ones you lose to honesty
I’ll take a lifetime to study you my sweet
Nothing says I love you quite like someone saying I love you
So don’t throw your words away
I’ll hang on everything you want to say
Whisper your sweet, sweet nothings they mean everything, everything
Don’t throw your words away
I know you love me but it’s not the same
Though it might be easy to say, say it anyway - don’t throw your words away
Life rolls down a tight rope of delight and dues
The mouth can say all kinds of things the hand won’t prove
You mean the world Love, but I don’t have time for you
But often these hypocrisies aren’t understood
A few more zealous lovers in this world would do some good
Oh if you feel it, go on and let it loose
I know this love is clouded, but not any more for being shouted
NOTES:
This song was a gift on a sunny, autumn day of loveliness in an obliging field a few days ago. I was thinking of how beautiful the sea had looked in Dartmouth the weekend before and then boom, I'm writing about how great it is to have someone babbling their love to you.
There's a schmultzy and recently famous country song written by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz, covered by Alison Krauss, Ronan Keating and others, called 'When You Say Nothing at All (You say it best)', and as I got into writing "Don't Throw Your Words Away" the thought occurred to me that it was rather like the opposite of that. I'm rather a talkative thing when I'm in small company, and my husband is undeniably verbal as well, so there's not a whole lot of holding back in our house, and I love that.
The tuning is a little crazy and probably won't be much fun on the live front (at least I now have a tuning pedal), but it's pretty cool and has been fun fiddling about with: E B C#G#B E
So that's that. It still feels almost a little too fresh as a song to just spill out to you like this, so suddenly - I think as I play it a bit more it will adjust slightly here and there for the better, but there's time for that so that's alright. And anyways, I'm not afraid of you - I feel pretty safe to not have it completely all together, which is nice.
Lord knows that words don’t always earn their keep
And lovers pride themselves that they don’t need to speak
They’re so good at reading, one look is all they need
And I love all the faces that you make at me
The ones you pull on purpose and the ones you lose to honesty
I’ll take a lifetime to study you my sweet
Nothing says I love you quite like someone saying I love you
So don’t throw your words away
I’ll hang on everything you want to say
Whisper your sweet, sweet nothings they mean everything, everything
Don’t throw your words away
I know you love me but it’s not the same
Though it might be easy to say, say it anyway - don’t throw your words away
Life rolls down a tight rope of delight and dues
The mouth can say all kinds of things the hand won’t prove
You mean the world Love, but I don’t have time for you
But often these hypocrisies aren’t understood
A few more zealous lovers in this world would do some good
Oh if you feel it, go on and let it loose
I know this love is clouded, but not any more for being shouted
NOTES:
This song was a gift on a sunny, autumn day of loveliness in an obliging field a few days ago. I was thinking of how beautiful the sea had looked in Dartmouth the weekend before and then boom, I'm writing about how great it is to have someone babbling their love to you.
There's a schmultzy and recently famous country song written by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz, covered by Alison Krauss, Ronan Keating and others, called 'When You Say Nothing at All (You say it best)', and as I got into writing "Don't Throw Your Words Away" the thought occurred to me that it was rather like the opposite of that. I'm rather a talkative thing when I'm in small company, and my husband is undeniably verbal as well, so there's not a whole lot of holding back in our house, and I love that.
The tuning is a little crazy and probably won't be much fun on the live front (at least I now have a tuning pedal), but it's pretty cool and has been fun fiddling about with: E B C#G#B E
So that's that. It still feels almost a little too fresh as a song to just spill out to you like this, so suddenly - I think as I play it a bit more it will adjust slightly here and there for the better, but there's time for that so that's alright. And anyways, I'm not afraid of you - I feel pretty safe to not have it completely all together, which is nice.
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from the Solitary Songs,
released April 1, 2009
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Miriam Jones Victoria, British Columbia
Management: miriamjones.tumblr.com/contact
"Quite apart from that this album is extraordinary on its
own merits there are few artists willing to expose their talents to such a sparse instrumental background, and you need to listen to it and discover its beauty for yourself."
- Tim Martin, FATEA Magazine
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