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We Had Our Time

from Roll as a Hexagon by Helen Bell

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2012

lyrics

I tried to reach you; did you try to reach me?
Did you think that I might teach you as I thought you might teach me?
You taught me of my minority
When I cast my love wide and my faultlines bare
And of getting up early to catch the hope
Before the afternoon’s despair

We had our time
And it chimed and it rang
And it never quite rhymed
But we sang anyway
We had our time
And it chimed and it rang
And it never quite rhymed
But at least we sang

I tried to find you; did you try to find me?
Were you afraid that I might blind you? I guess you blinded me
But I snapped off the light from this projection bright
An after-image glazed my sight
But when it cleared you reappeared
And you still looked all right

Maybe some songs are better left unsung
But that would mean lessons left unlearned
I’d rather be heart-splintered and wiser than left to fade unresolved
Beneath the waning, bat-bitten moon as all the leaves turn brown.
When your easy, illegible eyes turn steely and mocking
Now I know it’s when you’re locking yourself down

I tried to know you but you wouldn’t know me
And I can’t grow you into some other tree
But you taught me to seek the minority
Who would cast their love wide and their faultlines bare
And of getting up early to catch the hope
Before the afternoon’s despair.

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from Roll as a Hexagon, released July 7, 2018
Helen Bell – vocal, piano, organ, recorders
Tom Drinkwater - drums

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Helen Bell UK

Prog/folk/pop singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist specialising in viola and keyboard instruments.

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